This Blog Has to Start Somewhere

Our heads are still spinning just a little.  We started our move the first week of June, and it didn’t go as smoothly as we had hoped it would.  I suppose it never does, but honestly, this has been the most disorganized and difficult move we have ever made.  Fortunately, we had our rental until June 15th, and it took us every extra day we had to have everything moved into BHH.

Now, we seem to be hard at work breaking things as fast as we can fix them. The previous owner , Mrs. Hutchinson, was a single senior citizen who had lived alone for 10-20 years. Prior to that, it was just she and her husband since the 1960s.  We knew that the moment the six of us burst into this big house and started touching, using and flushing everything, the chinks in the armor were bound to reveal themselves.  Sure enough, within a couple of days, there was a sewer backup in the basement that resulted in about 1-2 inches of standing water and yuck. (More on that in a later post.)

We also blew a few fuses (literally, not metaphorically), and we discovered that our washing machine was broken. (Again, more  on all of this later.)

Since we moved in, we have had two sets of guests who have been treated to rooms that look like this:

Andy’s parents came to visit, and they unloaded so many boxes. Thank goodness, because I am sure that all the full boxes would still be sitting around this house right now. We have all been too busy putting out the fires of disorganization, breakage and chaos to spend any time unloading boxes.

All-in-all, we are so happy to be here. I have abandoned the idea that this blog will be any sort of decorating style blog. At this point, it does not feel that we will ever get past the constant repair portion of this house. I know we will look back, one year from now, and we will be amazed at all that has been accomplished. Today, every day feels like groundhog day, but we wouldn’t have it any other way.