New Home

Well, here I am at last, all 3 of you that stumble across this blog. Shannon and I finally sold our house in January and closed on our new house on Friday, February 13th. The Elders quorum helped us pack up and unpack. It took about 5 hours from first loading to unloading the last box from the truck. So we unpack just enough to survive and go to church in the morning. I begin to hook up the washer and dryer connections. I hook up the water and start the first load. After getting it started, I then go downstairs and begin to unpack the car. I get upstairs and Shannon starts screaming bloody murder. There was about 1/2" deep water in the laundry room. Brilliant me forgot to put the drain hose in the pipe. We use every single stinking towel to get the water up. We then get in the car to go to Shannon's parents house and find the water has leaked around the drainage pipe where the washer sits into the garage and starts leaking from the light bulb in the top and from the power outlet...Great! Wonderful! All on the first complete day of owning the house. To make matters worse, where I parked the car is where the automatic garage door wire is hanging down because I hadn't gotten the time to install it so when I got out of the car earlier, the wire got shut in the door acting as a wonderful way for the water that leaked onto the top of the car to run off INTO the car, Both side pouches of the car were full of water as well as about 1/5th of the seat. So I finally get that cleaned out and semi dry. By the time we finally got home, the leaking water was now a very slow drip. A ring appeared shortly thereafter around the light. Day is finally over.

So after breaking in our new house, we finally get unpacked enough to cook. Shannon begins to make eggplant parmesan. First time using the over so we get the over preheated and ready to put in. It is in one of the tin pans and as Shannon is putting it in the oven, you guessed, it dropped. So we cleaned it up, added more eggplant and scooped out as much from the oven as humanly possible at this point. There is of course some that is already cooked into the oven so there is nothing we can currently do about that. Once we get done it's too late to do a self clean because you really need to clean it immediately after. The next day is Sunday so we put it on for 4 hours and go to church. We get back and most of it is ash left over but scrubbing was still necessary to get some of the more stubborn portions off.

One week later, we finally got internet service. Of course, the hardware was supposed to arrive the day before. It didn't. We got it the day of, after the AT&T guy set it up. And now, here I am, listening to U2, on the fifth song, Sunday, Bloody Sunday, finally getting this post finish. Enjoy our tales

Till next time...