Moving right along

Today I didn't get to the house until 1pm but we got a ton done! Brandy came over and is a moving queen! Mom, Grandma and the baby came by a little bit later. Grandma helped with unpacking the kitchen, I assembled some lamps and mom and Brandy got a bunch moved out of the garage. They were able to set up our bed, move both of the baby's dressers upstairs and a dozen other boxes. There is still a ton to move but its a great start. If we can at least get it all inside then room to room we can arrange it. We found the drinking glasses which is fabulous so we don't have to drink out of solo cups anymore. It seems like there is still so much in the garage but we really did move a lot out of it. Some of it just got moved around though if it was really just garage stuff. So much of it we just don't know where we're going to put it yet.

Bob came over to work on the water heater problem. He had taken the water heater to the dumps in the morning and came back to cut out the rotted piece of plywood. Underneath there was an old rats nest; it didn't smell which is supposed to mean its old.

The wrapping around the pipes is coming off and was soaking wet, still. All of that will have to be replaced. He suspects some of the taping around the furnace contains asbestos. And one of the back supports of that piece of plywood appears to be broken (in the back right).

By the time he came back in the evening to show Mike it sounded like he wanted to replace the whole box which includes the portion that supports the furnace. We're looking at a water heater ETA of Friday, if we're lucky.

It seems like we are spending tons of money on the house; of course paint and flooring was a big portion of that. But a lot of little things have added up to. We don't have a shelving system in any of the closets so we'll have to get one for the baby's room and ours at a minimum. Most rooms don't have overhead lighting so until we can get around to wiring those we have to buy some lamps. Some rooms like the family room don't have crawl space above so overhead lighting isn't an option.

Oh and when I ran the sprinklers this evening half of the upper lawn circuit didn't work at all. As in does not pop up, does not even gurgle water out. Luckily the "sprinkler whisperer" is coming tomorrow.