It has started.

We have gotten the house and moved in. The first night was very rough with no electricity and a very stinky bedroom. Flies literally everywhere and a layer of dust 10 years thick coated every surface.

Most of the effort so far has been moving stuff in, all we have left is the lovely Koi pond documented earlier. Outside of that, the only thing we have done is changed the locks and cleaned.

Changing the lock on the backdoor was somewhat tricky as I needed to use a hole saw to cut a 2 1/8" hole in the door to install the new lock. The previous lock had 3 holes a 1/2" center hole and 2 1/4" or so through holes for the bolts. The bolt holes lined up with my new lock but the new lock had 2 1/8" ribs that smashed into the door. Using a hole saw with a starter bit smaller than an existing through hole is very hard to impossible. Solution was to find some spare 1/2" wood in the garage and drill through that then use it as a jig. I then only cut about halfway through the door, just enough to fit the ribs. Problem solved.

Day 1 Flies Killed: 20
Day 2 Flies Killed: 47
Day 3 Flies Killed: 25

Nazi artifacts found: 3

Overall status: Swamped!