that brown house

Last Wednesday, as you may recall, we finally got working electricity at the house. Alex volunteered to go over with me and Steph and help us try get things cleaned up enough that we could move in the next day, and that’s what we did that evening and into the night.

Much too early Thursday morning, the movers came to the apartment and loaded up their truck. It turns out that we have a lot of stuff. After several hours of loading, they hauled it all over and filled the house up with furniture and piles of boxes.

After the movers left, we reassembled some of the furniture, made an excursion to the hardware store, and brought the cats over. They seem to be adapting pretty well to the new surroundings and to be getting along reasonably well with the other neighborhood cats. They made it outside a little sooner than we had planned but didn’t have any trouble remembering where they should come back to.

We spent most of Friday and Sunday gathering up all the miscellaneous stuff that still got left behind at the apartment (and using the laundry machines there one last time), returning tools to the tool library, and starting to get things unpacked at the house.

Saturday morning the installer came to hook up the cable and internet service. That afternoon the washer/dryer delivery people came to install the machines, which look a lot bigger in the laundry room than they did in the store. They also shake the house a little distressingly while they are running. There was a momentary scare that we had the wrong kind of drain hookup for the washer, but it turned out to work OK with what we have.

Also on Saturday we tried to return the leftover tile from the bathroom to the tile shop (but they weren’t willing to take it back), tried to get some advice about how to make the oven work (but the guy who knows about stoves wasn’t at the antique store), and bought a shower curtain, bath mat, contact paper, and other stuff like that.

Fortunately the water heater turned out to work. The part of the plumbing that has not worked out so well is the kitchen sink drain, which was draining slowly for a while and now is hardly draining at all.  We’ll have to get the plumbers back over to figure out what is going wrong there.