One of the things I love about living in a really small town is how close and easy places are to get to. Need to run to the county courthouse? (like for our septic permit) Just pull right up front and park. In and out in minutes. Run and pick up the used microwave? Just a quick drive over to the business (that is closing doors, where my property neighbor has worked) and run in and pick it up. Need to get the electrical breaker that the electrician's wife found?. Ok, she dropped it off at her sister's place - where the old motel used to be that she's fixing up into little studio apartments. I think it took me 5 whole minutes to get there and back. LOL. Need a plunger for the shop bathroom? just run downstairs in the grocery store to the hardware store and grab one.
When I was picking up the microwave from where our property neighbor lady works, she said DH mentioned I was thinking of getting a toaster oven. Well, she said she has one at home, just sitting in a closet that she doesn't use anymore, so I'm welcome to use it. Yay. Now, I've got both those covered and it didn't cost me anything. She brought it over to the shop after she got home from work yesterday. It's pretty tiny, but I'll give it a try.
The electricians finished up yesterday. DH had to have me bring out another one of our outdoor lights, as one wasn't working (though they think it can be fixed). There were two guys working on the electrical and one smiled and said something about Amazon.....I said "hey, are you making fun of my lights from Amazon?!" They (including DH) laughed and said yep. haha. Then I said, well all the recessed shop lights didn't come from Amazon (they are commercial quality) - does that count for something?! They were really nice and funny guys.
The builder's guy got one end of the shakes put up. He'll do the other end today. His wife is the painter and she painted some trim around the shakes and also painted trim around the two inside doors (a utility closet and bathroom doors) and is going to paint the doors today.
The excavator got our drainfield all filled back in and looks so much nicer area now. It will all be planted grass.
The propane tank hole is being dug today. Not sure if they are setting it in and hooking up today or tomorrow. While I was out at the property after work, I guess our neighbors discovered their septic pump wasn't working. They had a septic guy come out and he came over and asked if our electrician could come over for a few minutes and just test the pump. I guess it turns out it died on them, after 9 years of use. I asked DH how come we never had to replace that at our old house septic system and he said we didn't have a pump system there, it was a gravity fed system.
The toilet is awful - it barely flushes and clogs, so somehow that's going to have to get fixed. It's certainly not our water pressure, we have more than enough, even with multiple hoses/faucets running.
I picked DH up a knee support thing at the pharmacy yesterday. Do you think he put it on this morning? nope.
It's going to be 103 today and 107 tomorrow. No thank you.
Well it seems that things are humming along much better this week. Helps when things get done and your karma has taken another swing~ie free microwave and toaster oven ;-) and electrical breaker found! If you can make yourself--sit back and slow down and breathe~~y'all have come a L.O.N.G. way-enjoy your bumpy journey!!
ReplyDeletethank you! We probably won't have time to sit back and breathe until we get moved in. We were talking to the new electrician at the end of yesterday. He said how long this shop has taken to build is totally ridiculous. He said a house shouldn't take more than 120 days. We are halfway into our 5th month now with just a shop.
DeleteI agree with small town living, no huge line ups for anything, and a HUGE line up for us is two people in front of us!!
ReplyDeleteI know! I love that part. At our old county a trip to the county building to get a permit would have taken at least a few hours of time all in all. A half half hour each way or more in traffic. Finding (paid) parking. Waiting an hour for your number to get called. A half hour at the desk. LOL.
DeleteWow! So much is coming together. That is going to be one sharp shop(previous post). Your house is in the near future. I love a small town. Parking in front of a store is everything:)
ReplyDeleteThanks. We are getting lots of compliments on it. Even in the nearby "big" city it's not too bad for parking/shopping/traffic. Much better than where I used to live :)
DeleteI love certain aspects of a small town, and the reasons you gave are so true. My town/city is 16K AND it is the county seat. The one thing that is bad about living in such a convenient, small town I that in the winter the car never heats up between the short distances from one place to another. The same is true for the ac when it is weak like mine. But, winter hurts more.
ReplyDeleteThe electrician is correct. This is too long for a shop. I hope you have not fully committed to him for the house.
true, we never get to warm the car up much where we live now. It's only a mile into town where all the businesses are.
DeleteI like small towns but only for a while. I am a big city person. It is difficult, expensive, over-crowded and yet I feel I belong to it.
ReplyDeleteI am not a big city person. But I think I'm more of a small/med town person. I at least like to have some of the big stores: Target, Walmart, Lowes, LOL
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