We're Back!

After ten fabulous days in the Pacific Northwest (thanks Mom, Larry, & everyone else who made it great) we have settled back in Columbus. It’s funny because I would catch myself missing home from time to time, then remember what home looked like when we left it, and then try to figure out an escape plan. Clint and I left Columbus in a frenzy, or what is quickly becoming “Reno-style.” I had slept two hours, Clint 40 minutes with his head on his desk. We worked through the night and much of the next day to get the old place in order (read: to try to get our deposit back), and Clint pulled in the garage Friday afternoon with the Jeep loaded with the final remnants of our old place, as our ride was waiting to whisk us off to the airport.

The trip was great- far too many highlights to mention. As soon as we can locate the cords to connect the camera to the computer, and as soon as we get internet at the house we’ll get some pictures up. The latter may turn out to be more difficult than we first thought as the cableman was already out yesterday and all he could get us were fuzzy cable channels and no internet (no word on the problem and they can’t send someone else out for another week). Luckily for us there is an internet café just down the street and on occasion if the wind blows just right we are able to “borrow” wireless internet from someone nearby. This came in handy during what I will call the termite scare. It’s a long story, and with no definitive conclusion as of yet, but it involves capturing bugs in Tupperware, calling the Orkin man in a panic, and genuinely considering for the first time that we may have made a huge mistake. From what we can tell from spotty internet and the bug currently asphyxiating in a plastic container on our counter-they’re ants, but just calling them ants after the panic they incited doesn’t seem right so I’m going to go ahead and call them killer flesh-eating ants, which I think captures our reaction to them much more accurately.

Despite all this we are slowly getting settled in and learning much more intimately all the quirks of the place. Like the fact that both the hot and cold water spigot for the washer and dryer leak. This may not be as big a problem as it seems though because we’re slowly realizing that any renovations we were planning to do on the addition (kitchen, bathroom, laundry) may need to be sooner rather than later. For some reason the addition has knob and tube wiring as well, which without attic access means holes in the drywall to outlets, fixtures and switches. That, combined with the need to figure out the best solution to the water heater means we might just tear everything down to studs for fun and build back up from there. This sounds drastic, and it may not be anywhere near that extensive, but considering how shoddily the addition was built I don’t think either of us would mind. We’re waiting to see what the plumber says on Friday, and the damage that’s done from the wiring, but in the meantime we’re renewing our gym membership just in case we need somewhere to shower.