Better Late Than Never!

I think I say this a lot.But here is what the house looked like for Christmas!






I think I say this a lot.But here is what the house looked like for Christmas!

Electricity goes crazy!

So I yet again apologize for the lack of blogging lately. Hopefully tomorrow when I get off work I will take pictures of our Christmas decorations and put them up. Needless to say I have been busy working at my real job and stuyding for finals. Last week happened to be a very interesting week at the house. It all started on Saturday night when I noticed the internet connnection had gone out. No big deal I will just call Charter sometime next week and get them to come and look at it. Well I had a final on Wednesday so I waited till tuesday to call Charter and then had them come out on Friday. I didn't want to have to deal with them messing up my study time. Wednesday night I had gone out with some friends and when I got home Rob stated that all of the lights had been flickering in the house. So he turned all the lights out except for the room he was in. I stated that it was really windy outside so maybe that had something to do with it. Well the next morning, I went to start the dryer and all the house dimmed when I attempted to start it. Big clue that this wasn't good. Charter arrived and stated that my cable internet cord looked burned. Like electrically burned. Not good! Then he went outside and he said sparks were coming out of there connection outside. Yet again not good! Sparks don't come out of cable internet.The supervisor for Charter came out and looked at it and said that he would turn off all the power in the house because some how I had lost my ground wire connection. Basically, saying my house was one big electrical charge. At the time I happened to be alone at the house. And of course freaked out! To make a long story short Alabama power ended up coming out and fixing everything our ground wire was completely broken. Everything is fixed now and working better than it had been. Oh the joy of owning a house! But it is totally worth it. Hopefully, I will get a new camera for Christmas so I will be able to post more pictures!

Update on plumbing.....

Well the good news is - the sink can be used! The bad news there is definitely more plumbing to be fixed. We have really old pipes so if we don't replace a certain section we risk flooding the basement. No good! So the plumber will be coming back out to fix that section and hopefully everything will be fixed.

Plumbing 101

Well the good news.... the part my mom and I fixed. NOT THE PROBLEM! Good job girls! Bad News there is a leak in the stack that so happenly is covered up by a wall, but at least it is behind the dishwasher. So the plumber is coming back out today to build us "bigger and badder" under the sink and in the wall plumbing. (In his own words). When he was messing around under the sink, all the old plumbing just fell off the sink. Needless to say the 1970's plumbing had to go! So by tonight hopefully I will have a functioning kitchen sink! YAY!!!

Plumbing problems!!

So we officially have an issue that Rob and I can not fix on our own. The kitchen sink had been backing up. About 16 hours later the clog was out, but one small little rubber coupling would not stop leaking. So after much debate and putting our pride aside the plumber is on his way and hopefully will be able to fix the problem that Rob and I (plus my mother) have been battling for a week.

Fall is definitely here!

Here are the pictures of the front of the house I promised a few weeks ago! Notice no crate murtles.

"The Wall"

So we have this retaining wall to the right of our house. It has looked bad from day one in my opinion. It used to have vines growing over it(actaully roses) but the week before we closed on our house they chopped them down. So now the wall is an eye sore. So I think I am going to paint it! The picture below shows the wall as being a dark taupe that will match the siding. Rob is off next week so I hope we can do it then.



The bushes along the bottom of the wall are going to be yellow knockout roses. And remember the crape myrtles are gone and replaced with compact hollys.

Also we are going to try to get an electrician out to the house to give us a qoute on putting up two sconces on either side of the entryway. Right now there is just one light as you walk out the door. It happens to be right at the height of your head so therefore at night you get a facefull of bugs. I also want to put a recessed can light above the door. This is the sconce I really like: