Posts Tagged ‘trash’
About that mailbox . . .
I’ve never been a big fan of my mailbox. However, it served its purpose till last night. We woke up this morning to our mailbox laying on the ground. Since a lot of my product reviews are sent by the mail, this is a very bad, bad thing. Second problem, it snowed here last night, so the ground is frozen. We think it was hit by the snow plow in the middle of the night (it was still there at 11 pm). The beam that actually holds the mailbox is split. We had to do a horrible fix job in about 20 degree weather today. Bill took some industrial clamps and zip ties and that is the only thing that is holding the beam together. The beam also leans forward pretty bad, so we had to take stakes and pound them into the ground around the base. This looks like the worst white trash mailbox I’ve ever seen, and there is no way to fix this until the ground thaws out. I am hoping to get some pictures of my sorry looking mailbox tomorrow. If anyone has any ideas of how to get new a mailbox into the frozen ground, I am all ears.
Too many things, not enough time
I’m trying to get the house ready for the birthday party this weekend. First, I really don’t feel like cleaning, so this makes it pretty difficult to get anything done. LOL. Bill had to work late last night. He won’t be home till 8 or 9 tonight too. Thursday, he doesn’t know when he’s coming home either. As you can see, it is left too me. However, cleaning with two kids underfoot is next to impossible. I can’t decide whether I should just leave everything till the end of the week or not. At least if we do everything Friday, I don’t have to redo it if the kids trash the house again. Decisions, decisions . . . .
Weekend Update
Well, we got them majority of stuff out of the basement over the weekend. Now, we just have a pile of trash and a few boxes that need to go out. I am calling for the dumpster this week. We are planning to demo the one room that is down there this weekend. Once we do that, we are going to work on our floor plan (I want to add another bathroom down there and Bill wants to add a home office). I want the basement finished by Will’s 1st birthday (June 7th). Besides the above rooms, Bill needs to rerun the electric, we need to rerun the venting, and we need to add drywall. We have a lot of work ahead of us.
We also bought a new stove, but that’s for a post a little later (so I can get a picture).
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