Matt and I put down a deposit for a wood burning stove yesterday.  We’re getting a Harman Stoves Cast Iron stove (check out the grill you can put in the top :-) ), and we’re very pleased with the stove and the local place we’re buying it from.  It should take about two weeks to get it to their location, and then we’ll have to schedule delivery.  In the meantime we have to put down the flooring the stove will sit on and build a 4×4 ft wall to protect the stairs and banisters from the heat of stove.  Which means I need to figure out what said items are going to look like and my dear husband has to find time to build it.  I’m sure we won’t be getting it delivered right when it is available, but hopefully we won’t have to wait too long.  We can get the stove finaled before the house is finaled, which means we can run it a bit and get the house warmed up and dried out.  That should help make the house more comfortable as well as with conquering the fuzzy stuff that keeps growing on the studs upstairs.

Oh, and our refund from the state and federal governments was more than I was even hoping we might get back - about a month’s salary!  Yes, yes, I know, this is our money to begin with and the government has just been holding it for us, interest-free…  but still, I think all and all I’d rather have it as one chunk right now than have had it bit by bit over the course of last year.  We’re good savers and all, but last year money stuff was just absolutely crazy.  And this year is looking even more *gulp* interesting…