CAMP WILLOW CREEK

Camp Willow Creek

We closed on Tuesday. My parents showed up on Thursday. They drove 14 hours in an electrican’s van. They brought decor-line recepticles and switches for the whole house. They brought recess lights. They brought cut-in boxes and wire.

Five days later, we’ve accomplished the following:

• replaced 2 old ceiling fans in media room with 1 new fan and 4 recessed lights.
• replaced 1 ceiling mount fixture in laundry room with 2 recessed lights
• added 2 dedicated electrical circuits to media room for computers
• pulled 19 network cables from storage closet in garage to all 4 bedrooms and media room
• installed recessed light in 1 master bedroom closet
• replaced ceiling fan in master bedroom
• replaced red bulb with white in master bath
• rewired ceiling fan in front bedroom
• replaced fixture in back left bedroom with ceiling fan
• added light and outlet in garage storage closet
• installed photosensor on front outdoor fixture
• replaced existing switches and recepticles with decor line
• installed A/C circuit for window A/C unit
• tested and labled panel box in garage

We also managed to host a BBQ using our brand new grill, curtesey of CP.

The catch is that even though we closed on Tuesday, we’re not set to move into here for another 2 weeks or so. So there’s no furniture. We were sleeping on airmattresses. I brought over all our camping gear from the summer to help us get by – hence Camp Willow Creek.

Water Water Everywhere

My parents got here about the same time as the guy from the water company did. This is a good thing because I had screwed up and had all the other utilities switched into our name for the closing on Tuesday, but I couldn’t find the phone number/website for the water company and by the time I did, the earliest they could come out to turn it on was Today.

The bad part was that he told my parents the meter was running even when everything was shut off which indicated to him that we had a leak somewhere. Its really not good to give parents something extra to worry about. In the process my dad found an issue with the icemaker behind the fridge. He also cleaned behind the fridge.

Closing

It’s OFFICIAL.  We’re Homeowners.  Wheee!

And thus, we’ve also had our first HomeOwners Arguement.  I wanted to sleep in the house.  JDB wanted to sleep in a bed (back at the apartment).  How lame.

Explorer Of The Seas

Sep 11 05 – Sep 17 05
While we eliminated the “Wow” factor by taking a follow-up cruise on the exact same ship, we still had an awesome time. This year we were able to explore below sea level as Certified SCUBA divers and we had a nifty underwater camera to prove it.