unpacking the wood burner and puppy

We've been spending our weekends unpacking and painting. I can actually say now that everything that's going to get unpacked, IS. Last Saturday I spent several hours putting my beautiful pre-war China (my Great Aunt Fern's originally - my Grandmother's sister) in my beautiful built-in cabinet that Jesse found out from the previous homeowner came from the old Governor's mansion. No pics yet. There's one thing we can't find: the cast iron pan that my brother gave me that we needed for camping this weekend. I think it's at the old place in Denver - stupid. I called the property manager and asked if I could come check the garage but haven't heard back.

We painted the master bathroom and are in the process of finalizing colors for two walls of the living room wall and our bedroom. Yesterday we got a wood-burning stove (fireplace insert) installed and it looks awesome! Again, no pics yet. Difficult to get it in there straight because of the natural stone fireplace. We probably won't even use it until October at the earliest but there's a federal rebate on it that we want to include with our first-time homebuyers rebate tax re-file. Remind me I need to do that ASAP.

I didn't even mention yet that last Thursday WE GOT A DOG. She's an 8-month old border collie from a rescue agency - we named her Luna. We took her camping at Rocky Mountain National Park this weekend and she was a real trooper. She's just over 30 lbs and probably won't be more than 40 lbs when full grown. She's pretty skinny right now, her feet are too big and she needs a bath (not until Thursday because she has dissolving stitches from her spay).

No accidents in the house yet, she sleeps in her crate, and she knows the word "no." She's persistent - when she knows something is "no" she tries again and again and again... She knows her name most of the time and is actually VERY good about sticking close by you even without her leash. She's interested in the cats but they're not ready to make friends just yet.