Moving Day Goody-Goody Hip Hop Hurray or Home Ownership Blues
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The Pipes-The Pipes, They Are Callin'...(frozen)
Winter has come to da Burgh...and that has meant snow; it snowed before and after
Christmas and off and on ever since. We've only been in our house for about 4 weeks. Guess
we put the heaters in the wrong spot, cuz the pipes froze and we had to call the plumber. We
saved money because when they thawed we saw where the water first started shooting out
from and that was this socket by the sink. Thank goodness for this design fail! And we were
right. It was only a disconnect and not a burst pipe so no major repair was needed.
This gaping hole
in the wall will soon transform into an access
panel. Til then we'll keep the heater on the pipes below the sink and not on the other side of
the wall where the bathroom is. Gotta get an electrician out here to move that outlet it's right
behind the shower where the leak occurred, design fail...not a good place for an outlet.
(Danger-danger! Will Robinson!)
Things We Saved In the Move...
These
cabbages were the last items salvaged from our former garden. We bought
a house in a cul-de-sac with a
small back yard. This is my new canvas. Oh yeah,
I salvaged the container grown carrots that sit center, gotta get some hay around them before the temps go
below 0 degrees. See if I can harvest thru the winter. Stay tuned.
Things We Lost in the Move...
Let's see... things we lost in the move, like my pots of
blueberries!
AAAAUGH! It takes about 2 yrs before these bushes produce fruit. This set I got at home depot got some
berries on them,
a cupful, but before I could enjoy them, the birds came and ate
them, this past summer. Onestagin... after our move we went back 2 days later to retrieve them, the
maintenance men had tossed them in this HUGE dumpster. No way could I retrieve them. They killed
it!
Moving Day...Thanksgiving Day Do Overs, Casualties of the Move...
Ain't noboday home cuz....we
moved! Yeah, goodbye rent; hello mortgage.
We packed up the
cats and 
Smokey and headed off to our new
house.
I wish my pets would get along like this. But in reality they act like 
this,
instead.
Anywho, I get to the closing and notice that the stove and fridge that were part of the deal were missing and
the seller's agent and my agent started shushing me when I brought up this point. Ya see, the house was
being rented prior to sale and the renter took the appliances with her, remind you now, this was NOT a
foreclosure,too bad she didn't blow herself up...I mean, she could have blown herself up in the
process. So the owner gave me cash to buy new appliances. Scratch and dent here we come! Then, the
waiting game. It is the waiting for the hook ups that mess up a well planned schedule. In the meantime I
rented this big a#! moving van from Penske's cuz it was Thanksgiving Eve and U-haul said they closed at
1:30p. Really the
truck was more like the size of a Port Authority bus. (At least I know
that if facing a layoff, I know what my new career might be.) The side streets in the 'Burgh are narrow with
parking on both sides. My knees were shaking after the first load and I promptly turned the truck back in
at 6 o'clock in the morning! I threw the keys through the slot and hubby drove me home.
So when thewench, former tenant, took out the gas stove it caused a leak, so that when the gas man arrived
to turn on the gas, he couldn't! Honey, we got tagged! Soooo...we were sitting in the cold, huddled
around a space heater. The temps that nite were in the low 30's
B-r-r-r-r-r...more waiting for
the hook ups. I SEE COLD PEOPLE!
Thanksgiving Day Do overs!
(Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Day Do over, NOT leftovers)
Remember Charlie Brown had the first meal that he, Linus and Snoopy cooked, then he
called his grandmother and they all got to go there for the real meal...this was a do over...and
I say that from here on out, if you encounter an occasion that doesn't turn out right or meets
your expectations, there is nothing wrong with a do over.
Because we had to cook dinner at the former residence, and then bring it to our new residence, where we sat
down to dinner in a cold house,the food cooled off faster, so we kept having to micro-wave stuff over and
over. Needless to say, I didn't enjoy myself. So with everything that went wrong...I decided to have a do
over. The kids cooked the dinner over the following week and we have been enjoying leftovers since the
do over.
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The Pipes-The Pipes, They Are Callin'...(frozen)
Winter has come to da Burgh...and that has meant snow; it snowed before and after
Christmas and off and on ever since. We've only been in our house for about 4 weeks. Guess
we put the heaters in the wrong spot, cuz the pipes froze and we had to call the plumber. We
saved money because when they thawed we saw where the water first started shooting out
from and that was this socket by the sink. Thank goodness for this design fail! And we were
right. It was only a disconnect and not a burst pipe so no major repair was needed.
This gaping hole
in the wall will soon transform into an access panel. Til then we'll keep the heater on the pipes below the sink and not on the other side of
the wall where the bathroom is. Gotta get an electrician out here to move that outlet it's right
behind the shower where the leak occurred, design fail...not a good place for an outlet.
(Danger-danger! Will Robinson!)Things We Saved In the Move...
These
cabbages were the last items salvaged from our former garden. We boughta house in a cul-de-sac with a
small back yard. This is my new canvas. Oh yeah, I salvaged the container grown carrots that sit center, gotta get some hay around them before the temps go
below 0 degrees. See if I can harvest thru the winter. Stay tuned.
Things We Lost in the Move...
Let's see... things we lost in the move, like my pots of
blueberries! AAAAUGH! It takes about 2 yrs before these bushes produce fruit. This set I got at home depot got some
berries on them,
a cupful, but before I could enjoy them, the birds came and ate them, this past summer. Onestagin... after our move we went back 2 days later to retrieve them, the
maintenance men had tossed them in this HUGE dumpster. No way could I retrieve them. They killed
it! Moving Day...Thanksgiving Day Do Overs, Casualties of the Move...
Ain't noboday home cuz....we
moved! Yeah, goodbye rent; hello mortgage. We packed up the
cats and Smokey and headed off to our new
house. I wish my pets would get along like this. But in reality they act like this, instead.
Anywho, I get to the closing and notice that the stove and fridge that were part of the deal were missing and
the seller's agent and my agent started shushing me when I brought up this point. Ya see, the house was
being rented prior to sale and the renter took the appliances with her, remind you now, this was NOT a
foreclosure,
process. So the owner gave me cash to buy new appliances. Scratch and dent here we come! Then, the
waiting game. It is the waiting for the hook ups that mess up a well planned schedule. In the meantime I
rented this big a#! moving van from Penske's cuz it was Thanksgiving Eve and U-haul said they closed at
1:30p. Really the
truck was more like the size of a Port Authority bus. (At least I know that if facing a layoff, I know what my new career might be.) The side streets in the 'Burgh are narrow with
parking on both sides. My knees were shaking after the first load and I promptly turned the truck back in
at 6 o'clock in the morning! I threw the keys through the slot and hubby drove me home.
So when the
to turn on the gas, he couldn't! Honey, we got tagged! Soooo...we were sitting in the cold, huddled
around a space heater. The temps that nite were in the low 30's
B-r-r-r-r-r...more waiting for the hook ups. I SEE COLD PEOPLE!
Thanksgiving Day Do overs!
(Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Day Do over, NOT leftovers)Remember Charlie Brown had the first meal that he, Linus and Snoopy cooked, then he
called his grandmother and they all got to go there for the real meal...this was a do over...and
I say that from here on out, if you encounter an occasion that doesn't turn out right or meets
your expectations, there is nothing wrong with a do over.
Because we had to cook dinner at the former residence, and then bring it to our new residence, where we sat
down to dinner in a cold house,the food cooled off faster, so we kept having to micro-wave stuff over and
over. Needless to say, I didn't enjoy myself. So with everything that went wrong...I decided to have a do
over. The kids cooked the dinner over the following week and we have been enjoying leftovers since the
do over.
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