Turn the heat up...

We received the last of the quotes for the Sunday and spent the rest of the day going over them.  Robyn and I decided to go with Residential Heating  as they offered the best mix of features and price.  I wrote that check for the deposit late this afternoon.  They pull permits tomorrow and get started bright and early Thursday morning.  According to Chris Kallstrom, their representative, it will take about a week and a half for us to have a fully functioning HVAC system in place.

...and then the real fun begins.

Here are some photos from the neighborhood (all within 3 or 4 blocks of the house) that I took today after I signed the contract.  You can see the flooding from the Mississippi River down below; it's supposed to crest in the next day or two.  Downtown St. Paul is in the background.  (For our friends down south, yes there is still snow on the ground.)

View from the bluff over Carver's Cave

View from Indian Mound Park

Homes in Dayton's Bluff