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*Friday,
July 1st.* *Let me see if I am coherent enough to get this all written out! ** |
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*Friday,
July 1st.* *Let me see if I am coherent enough to get this all written out! ** |
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As
some of you know we have been having a dispute with our landlord. He
said we had a 2 year lease with option, but insisted we pay back taxes
on a year we rented, and then gave us 10 days to pay the back taxes or
face eviction. MJ decided we ought not to move so signed a new month to
month agreement, paying the taxes, but not a buyers contract, like we
were promised. This
has bugged us but we were content with this house. Well the $600 a month
leaves us no emergency money, no savings, MJ even had to quit putting in
his 401k plan. The house rent (I cant call it a mortgage payment cuz it's
a lease not a buy) and electric this month run $900, which is over 2/3
of MJ�s pay (he clears $1400 a month). So this month he said if Drew
and I could find a house for $500 down and Well
yesterday I found one! It is perfect, not as big as this one, but only
smaller by 300 sq ft! The guy owns many houses here and unlike this guy,
I know 4 people who are buying from him and they all sing his praises as
an honorable, stand up guy. No one I have met has anything nice to say
about the current guy we rent from. Anyway,
the new house is 2 bed 1 bath (with one son leaving for boot in 6 weeks
1 bath will be ok) the kitchen has a unique set up, the fridge, washer,
dryer and stove are all lined up on one wall! The
living room is close to the size of ours now, with out the dining The
living room has an old gas fireplace, there is no gas to the house but
we can later convert it to a regular fireplace, it has no chimney The
bathroom is huge and there is lots of storage. It even has a dog pen in
the back yard, and since both yards on either side are fenced our
fencing costs will be about 1/2 what we expected! There
is a gate and some fence wire but none put up on our property. The
neat thing is the payments, $460 a month! Including taxes and homeowners
insurance! He is putting it in our names today. There
is not enough space, not enough words to express how God has set this up
for us! And folks it was God, this house had people in it until earlier
this month!* *
* *Saturday
July 2nd* *Well
we spent the morning at the new house. ** We
pulled up all the icky carpet and exposed the wood; we are going to be
looking to see if any one we know has access to a big sander. I
scrubbed the bathroom, Chris helped, the tiles are now white again not
grey! We have a solid iron tub, not a claw foot, but solid anyway! It
has some spots that zud and a scrubber pad (the dark green ones)
could not get out, which since we are shower people we can live with
while we figure it out! MJ
did awesome in the kitchen, the new grout will go in Monday, we wanna
check for leaks before we replace it. Chris took a broom to the walls
and ceilings and cleaned all the webby stuff off. We also put in a new
door knob, so we now have a key!* *
* *Sunday
July 3rd* *Well
the guys went off to a movie; I had them drop me off at the new place
and worked on the porch for a few. I scrubbed off the bird do, and then
cleaned the window that doesn�t open, it�s a picture window and
hosed it all off. I had the guys drop off my glider rocker there and so
I sat in it for a bit and dreamed! I took a green scrubby pad and tested
it on the wood floor; it gets up the glue fine but some one with more
muscle than me needs to wield it! ** Way
off out back, at the end of the lot is a fenced area, the guys say
it�s not on our property, but it is! It is inside our fence line. I
had to leave the windows up cuz a few wasps were buzzing inside the
windows and wasps really upset me! I
figure the more we make the place look cared for the less we have to
worry about mischief makers trying to break in. I hope one of MJ�s
friends will let us borrow his generator, so we can set up a couple fans
and maybe a radio! I
hope also tomorrow to clear the small end table out of the shed, clean
it up and set it on the porch and the lawn chair in there too. I also
plan to take over the plastic chairs we have here. I am hoping MJ will
agree to watch the fireworks there tomorrow! We
also discovered today the house has 2 outside water spigots! I am really
happy about that, there is a huge hose attached to one so with my hose
we can reach the entire acre lot!* *
* *Monday
July 4th* *We
went to the house for a few today, just MJ, Drew and I, Drew *We
met the neighbor, he said the folks had moved out just about a week ago,
just turned their chickens loose and left! He inherited the chickens!* *The
fenced building out back is ours and it is a chicken coop. Though we are
not planning to make use of it as such. The neighbor has chickens! I
just want to see how far we can stretch the fencing to fence the back of
the yard! We gave the neighbor the old dog pen. Since it was storming
there were no real fireworks to watch, but God did an awesome job with
the lightening! I did sit out and watch the few that some brave souls
put up, and got soaked in the process!* *
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* *Tuesday
July 5th* *I
had MJ drop me off at the house on his way to work this morning. I got
one set of cabinets cleaned out totally, ready for supplies! It was **8
am** when I left; it was already getting a bit hot! I will go back over
later to close the windows. The plan is to borrow a generator this
weekend and sand the floors, the power might be on Monday, and I can not
wait! The sooner it is on the faster we can move in! Though I might have
to be off line for a bit if the internet folks can�t make it out fast!
Sometimes it takes them up to 2 weeks!* *
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* *Thursday
July 7th* *Today
the boys and I went over, yesterday I went, but didn�t do much. The
boys mowed the front lawn, and I worked on more cabinets!* *
* *Friday
July 8th* *Finally
got everything worked out with the power folks the guy said he had to
tell me 3-5 days, but that he put it in to be on as soon as *Well
my first batch of dishes is there to unpack. * *We
cleaned out the shed and it is ready to be bug bombed, the only bugs we
have seen are spiders and wasps and dirt daubers (we call em mud
guppies). Since it took me so long to fixed the power bill (they could
not find a $100 payment I had made Tuesday!) it was noon by the time we
got to the house and 1 by the time we got the shed cleared and sorted,
there is some usable keeper stuff in there! It was however too warm to
do anything else, heat saps my energy fast. Now had I been able to just
go inside when I got there, I would have gotten a lot done! LOL well
there is always tomorrow!* *I
may be off line from Monday to Friday, so I wish you all a blessed
week!* |