Adventures in Home Ownership!

Ron is applying the final clear coat to the railings he and Kenny stripped as I type this. They are lookin' mighty pretty!

We have discovered that the toilet in our downstairs bathroon is not so, how to put this delicately, hardy. Damn thing clogged twice today! Perhaps we need to change our diet some... but that's more than y'all need to know.

We are enjoying having a dishwasher in the house, but we have found that we do not have enough dishes to fill it. We own enough dishes for the two of us to enjoy two meals... this was on purpose back in the "old days" when we were washing our own dishes... having fewer dishes meant they didn't pile up as badly and we were forced to keep on top of them in order to use them.

Now that we are paying for water and electricity it is not very cost effective to run a half empty dishwasher and there's no point in having the darn machine if we keep pulling dirty dishes out of it to hand wash and eat off of.

So yeah, we need some new dishes. Maybe we'll pool the gift cards we will inevitably get for Christmas and buy a nice set for 8. And lord knows we have the cabinets to store them in now!

The snow is looking lovely on the pond behind our new place! I am hoping to take some new photos of the place and post them soon... but my computer is still at the old place until after Christmas. Stay tuned!