Sean Flinn

Not a big post this week. We didn’t get a chance to actually go into the home this week. Our schedules dictated that we swing by on Saturday — rather than our normal Sunday visit — when the workers are on site. We didn’t want to disturb them, so we kept our distance.

However, we did have another special guest star this week: Mom Flinn, who drove out from LaVerne to show us her new puppy (Pippin) and to take a tour of the place. We at least got the chance to show her the building and the neighborhood, and then to walk her through the model home (the folks in the Lennar sales office have got to be sick of us by now … we end up trundling through there a few times a month). So, hopefully she now has a good sense of what we’re digging ourselves into.

We were quite pleased — and a bit surprised — to see that the exterior is already going onto the home. They had the front of the place tented and molded stucco coating had already gone up.

The back of the house was prepped and ready as well … I expect the whole place will be done when we return for next Sunday’s visit.

After the home site visit, we continued our (new) tradition of visiting a new restaurant / shop in the nearby area. This time around, Claro’s Italian Market was our target (we wanted something we could takeaway, so that we didn’t have to leave Pip the Pup locked up in a car for too long). Holy crap, these guys are going to get a TON of our business. You can see by Katie’s Yelp! review that the prospect of fresh sliced Italian deli meats, cheeses and desserts has us both in a constant drool. Highly recommended.