It's been another very busy month of July - and I am happy to say I have now lived in my new house for a month! So far nothing extremely wild or crazy has gone on at my new residence. There is one incidence that was a little troubling during the first few days I officially lived in the house, however. I had just got home from work around 11:30 PM from afternoon shift and was trying to get into my house from my garage into the kitchen. I go to unlock the deadbolt, turn the doorknob, but the door would not open. No matter what I tried, I could not get in. I even tried getting into the house through the front door but even the screen door was locked! So I took that door right off, got to the exterior door, and found out I didn't have keys for that door, either. It was back to the drawing board; which then I finally started taking apart the door knob that was giving me trouble in the garage. I got out the electric-powered drill and started drilling away at the problematic knob. The thing is, it was around midnight at that time and the noise coming from the garage was getting pretty loud. So after awhile I knocked it off - for fear of waking up one of my new neighbors. I certainly didn't want to piss anyone off the first week I was hear! And it's not like the house is all that close to the other homes around here. There's a good distance between homes. Still, I didn't want to chance it, especially around midnight! Well needless to say, after about 45 minutes, I eventually got the old doorknob off. It was certainly a struggle, but I never gave up from getting inside my house! It ended up being a broken spring inside the doorknob that caused it to fail. Why couldn't this have happened a week prior when the old owners were still here?
In addition to keeping up with the daily chores of my new house, I have also been busy helping out my dad put new siding and windows on his house. The project is progressing quite nicely and we're now down to the last wall of this particular phase of the house. But the last wall certainly isn't going to be the easiest, either. It's the largest of the walls and there are many obstacles to put the siding around, including about four different windows and utility boxes/meters. The electric power for the house comes from the roof and runs down the wall through a large piece of conduit, goes to the meter box and through some more conduit into the house where the fuse box is. My dad put siding up on this wall 15 years ago so there is no more room to pull on the conduit and slide the new siding under it. So we're thinking of creating a whole new box for all of the different utilities on this particular wall. It's going to be a challenge and will end up taking a lot of time. But eventually we'll get it figured out. The rest of the house looks super nice and it really makes the house stick out as the nicest in the neighborhood now.
From the looks of it, it doesn't seem like this hectic summer of mine is going to slow down anytime soon. This weekend is my hometown's annual homecoming celebration - that along with the county fair. And this is the first time in over three years that I'll be able to attend! I'm actually looking forward to it, although I don't expect things to be all that different from year's past. My niece and nephew will also be around, so we'll be busy taking care of them. Then we'll continue to work on the siding project on my dad's house this next week and then the following weekend, we'll be making a trip down to Wisconsin to visit my sister. We haven't been down there in six months! It's been long overdue but you know what? It's better to be busy than bored out of my mind. Summertime is when you want to get out and make the most of it.
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