Ah, December and the holidays are now behind us.
Plumbing/hot water issues at home, stormy weather and the holidays gave way to a relaxing week + at home. Relaxing is all relative since Tom and I don’t sit still much. We’ve got 11 months into Tom working in Bishop and the time with both of us home is few, far between and often involves a reason (appointments, moving stuff from one location to another, etc.) so to have this time at home, together, for this long has been unusual. We got a chance to see some family over the holidays and hope to see more visiting family in the next couple months. In the meantime, when not tending to job-work, we worked on the property (burning brush, grading our road, moving rocks, etc.) We (Tom) finished the plumbing for the new hot water heater, expansion tank, hose bib, etc. and rectified a major water pressure issue in the process. We cleaned up toys (bikes, quad, motos, Bobcats.) We cleaned out and reorganized the garage (including a dump trip.) We cleaned the house, did laundry, updated and reorganized our home theater (added a Blu-ray player.) We head back to job-work with a huge sense of accomplishment and the knowledge that the battle rages on…
We had a hit on our ad to sell our Ford and Tom thought he’d tidy the truck up a bit inside and out for a potential buyer…then he opened the hood…
Apparently the squirrel that hitched a ride to Bishop (and subsequently abandoned the truck) after chewing up various interworkings under the hood to build a nest has vengeful relatives at home still carrying the torch. We’ve already had one nearly $300 trip to the mechanic to repair hoses, turn signal wire, etc. This time a few new things appear to be chewed up…bastards! Thankfully, nothing is at all major…yet. Sheepishly I’ll admit we tried Decon, not knowing what we were dealing with…but it didn’t work anyway, so now we’re on to more drastic (and humane) measures. I’ll be shopping for some cayenne pepper to dump under the hood in appropriate places as a next step…contact us if anyone has any other bright ideas.
Looking forward to more adventures in 2010 and we hope you are too.
Michelle and Tom