Banner Day

Today is a very special day here at the old Boggy Thicket.
It's the day Honey and I celebrate our 55th wedding anniversary, and this year it is also the day all of our new furniture is being delivered.  I'm pretty sure which one has my darling bride more excited, but I know better than to ask.
We're still camping in the back yard, but may actually celebrate New Year's Day in our refurbished home.

Almost There

The stove I mentioned in my last post did get sold, along with the microwave.  So did the old washer and dryer.

We now have a 120V outlet for the new range, but the propane line is behind some built-in cabinets about three or four feet from where it needs to be. The contractor is supposed to be sending a guy out today to run a new line so the new range can be hooked up tomorrow.  We haven't seen him yet, but he better show up - we have had Buster Brown Propane scheduled to come tomorrow to do the natural gas to LP conversion and install the range.  They have a wait list, and it's been scheduled for the past three weeks.

We have painters, a sheet-rock guy and the carpet installers all working in the house today.  It's a madhouse in there.

Our contractor says we will be in our house by New Years Day.  It won't be a minute too soon.

Saga of the Kitchen Stove

We bought a new kitchen range and microwave to be installed as part of the re-do on our flooded house.  The physical dimensions on both match the ones being replaced, so it ought to be  pretty straightforward, right? 

Nope. Not even close.

The old range was electric and the replacement is propane.  The range we had before the one we're replacing was propane, so there is a propane source in the wall, but they sheet-rocked over it and now they have to knock out part of the wall to find the pipe.  The new stove also needs a 120 volt power source but the only power available right now is the 240 volt wire that powered the electric range.  It ain't rocket science, it can all be corrected, but it is a pain.

I sold the old range and microwave to a lady who is converting her trailer to all electric.  She was supposed to come get them last weekend, but for one reason or another, pickup keeps getting postponed.  I just had a call from her and she said that she has the money in hand, but didn't want to come get them in the rain.  She begged me not to sell them to anyone else, and swears they will come get them this next weekend.

Aside from waiting (which I despise and am not good at doing at all) the biggest pain the old stove has created is that I had told her the appliances got really dirty during the kitchen demo and that I was selling them as-is.  Then this past weekend, when we thought she was coming to get them, Honey announced that she was not letting anything leave here looking like that, so we spent a couple hours cleaning them up.

Christmas Puppy

We woke yesterday to find this cute little puppy underneath our 5th wheel.  She was well fed, so we really didn't think she had been abandoned. 

Honey made some calls, and I posted her picture on Facebook. Someone said they thought they had seen her at a house on the other side of the block.  We took her over there, and sure enough, there were two dogs in their front yard that were older, but looked just like her - probably from a previous litter.  They greeted her like a long lost friend, so we decided that must be where she belonged, and we left her there.

Later, we learned that our neighbors, the Gedmans, had four puppies in their yard.  Honey told her what we had done with the one we found, and they took their four over and left them at the same house.  

While they were there, a woman came by - another neighbor we didn't know - and asked Angie if she had lost a puppy.  She told her no that she was dropping some off.  The lady said "Okay." and left hers there. too.

We are pretty sure the pups got back where they came from, but there was nobody home to ask.  

If that's not where they belonged, those folks got a hell of a surprise when they did get home.

Progress

Lots of activity at the old Boggy Thicket today. 

Our driveway looks like a used car lot. 

We have four painters, and three granite counter guys here already. and the main granite guy is on the way with the granite in his truck. Earlier, the plumber was here for a few minutes taking measurements, then left.

Workers are scurrying around inside the house like bees in a hive.

It almost makes me believe that we may actually get back in our house at some point.