Well they keep saying it doesn't snow in GJ but then again the song goes it doesn't rain in Southern California . . .
It was a record breaker, too
The house has been doing fine with the snow and temps and it was a good thing I blew the lines out last night. I did finish the water heater so there ain't much water left in the rig now!!!
We got to perform at church today, along with a kid-band, which was quite (dare I say ...) interesting. We got a lot of complements from the experience.
I didn't say anything about this but since Tuesday I've had to turn down the transmitters on the hill because the local NPR/PBS stations were working on a tower change - of course they asked me yesterday to turn down the transmitters for today and I made the executive decision that they weren't gonna be there. 2 hours after I ws supposed to turn the stations down they called and said they weren't going up.
Susie is chanting "snow day - Snow Day - SNOW DAY" hoping for one - I guess we'll see tomorrow. The snow is that sloppy, wet stuff that makes a mess of everything, but it does make a mean snowball!
Well we goofed off a bit this morning since all the big stuff got done over the last couple of days. (of course there is still the #1 storage unit but that'll be over the next month)
We thought about taking our instruments but the temp was cold enough and we were tired enough that we decided not to (she only played 3 songs anyway - they didn't invite me up at all!!)
We spent the rest of the day going to WalMart for trailer stuff and some food then it was house cleaning.
Susie thought that I shouldn't be clearing the water lines for the trailer when I did - it was 19:00 when I started - but the weather guy was saying the temps were gonna really drop and stay down so I took the little (and I mean little) air compressor out and blew out the lines and put antifreeze in the traps. That should be good enuff until I can get the water heater completely dumped out.
Well thanksgiving has come and gone and we spent it moving stuff from the storage unit (#2) to the house. The weather is not supposed to hold out and we have to be out by the end of the month. So we're stuck with doing it today.
Thanksgiving dinner comprised of stopping by the Village Inn for lunch (it was the only place open - and we got there 20 minutes before they closed for the day!).
At least that got done - we also did some holding tank cleaning on the trailer since we gotta pull that out tomorrow.
Well the closing happened and we spent night #1 in the new digs.
I don't think you could say we've really moved in yet. We took over a grand total of the bed, two dressers (his-n-hers), a tv (from the trailer), the cat condo, as well as the dog and cat. It is quite the empty space at this point, and lot's of it (particulary coming from the 5th wheel).
I took a bunch of pictures (and PO'd Susie doing it - she was cleaning and wanted me to do the same - but I wanted some before and after pix) I'll try to get them posted when I find the cable to download the pix from the camera.
It was a wild ride in Boulder for the Winter Assembly (so many hours on the road) - but the weather was great for the weekend. The business meetings ran long (as was mostly expected) and, after much poking and prodding by Susie over the past few days, I stood for WIA chair - and became co-chair instead (can't win'em all). The lady who became the chair lives in Basalt so the organizational meetings won't involve travel clear across state.
The hotel was actually quite nice except for the teenagers upstairs who were bouncing off the walls late enough on both nights that we called the front desk about it.
Kelly had too much fun over the weekend - our doggie sitter ended up with a cold for the weekend so we had to improvise and pay $15/night more for the room. She got to stay at Roseanne's house in Boulder on Saturday and on Sunday got to join in with the activities.
Back to the house front - the appraisal came back at (as always it seems) the purchase price. So the house is still rolling along. As long as we get to move in before it gets too cold.
Well it's finally election day and I am sick and tired of the politicos calling (the BV number is finally forwarded to my cell phone - it only took Qwest 2 weeks to figure that one out) and the ads. Of course the calls I've been getting have been the result of when Susie gave her info to one of the parties in Chaffee County - at least that won't last long.
But on another front - I got a note from Mike last week that Rod Krol (the GM in Lansing) is out - I wonder how that'll hit the crew. I don't doubt that a number of them are on the hunt for that back-up gig in case the axe hits a bit closer (there is at least one that I believe will get the Anne Boleyn treatment).
Locally, we have an accepted offer on the house that is in the post before this one. They are conducting a couple of repairs that we requested from the inspection. If this keeps on going as it has, this'll be the easiest house purchase we've ever been through.
For the time change I've had to reprogram some of the remote controls for the stations - since they use the remote controls hardware to change the transmitter power levels for some of the AM's. A real P-I-T-A (you know what I mean) since one of them wasn't documented. I only spent the better part of the afternoon pressing the pound key on a telephone and writing down a number (from 0 to 15) then I spent better than an hour decoding the results.
Susie started her job (training last week Wed. to Fri.) in Parachute so she's racking up the miles again. It snowed here and it got pretty cold last night - I rigged it up so we've been running electric heat but it doesn't do the "basement" very well but I did figger out a way to pump some heat in there to keep the pipes inside from freezing (it only got down to 28 so not much of a problem there - YET!). The outside water line has a heat tape wrapped around it so it'll be fine (as long as it doesn't get too cold - it isn't insulated).
