The beginnings of modern conveniences

The beginnings of modern conveniences

My dad has started putting in some of the plumbing into the house in the kitchen area. He has also been working on grinding the bathtub so it can be resurfaced. It has been quite the chore in its self. I know it will be beautiful when it is completed. They have also been slowly adding in electrical plugs around the house. But I am sure my mom is most happy with having a fridge again.

Hunter and my dad have been working around the farm cleaning up. There was a spot in the yard that the previous people burned their trash. Hunter sifted through it and got out all the trash he could. We now have a trash service with a small dumpster on our property that will help to get rid of the trash that was just left. They also burned the brush pile from when we cleared out the area behind the house to put in the creek and the area I got poison ivy from. My dad has found where I got it and sprayed it with weed killer.

They have been working hard around the farm and they have been exploring the land. The weeds and grass grow quickly especially with all the rain they have been getting. Maybe we need to revisit the idea of goats to help keep down the quick growing weeds.  I may just want some adorable goats to play with while I am there too but they would be helpful as well.

Meanwhile here in Lamesa I have been working on our RV. When I got back from Kentucky, we found a leak in the underbelly. After checking out each of the pipes with no luck I finally found the issue. The pump had a crack in it and was leaking more than it looked like. We had taken everything we had stored under there and moved it out into the yard while we repaired it and got it dry again. Luckily Chad was on his way home from an out-of-town meeting and was able to go through Lubbock to stop at the RV store and buy a new pump. I had never changed out a pump before but I just disconnected one wire at a time until they were all hooked up. The flooring in the underbelly was carpet and it was soaked. We were afraid it would start molding under the carpeting so we ripped it all out.

Of course, of all days it started raining and we all rushed to bring in everything that would get ruined in the rain. Chad sprayed everything down with bleach a few times over the course of a week just to keep any mold from growing. Last night everything seemed dry enough to work on the flooring so Chad and I got busy. We had some left-over peel and stick tiles in storage from a previous project and we got some liquid nail to put down first to keep them from peeling with the Texas heat. Of course we were short one tile to be finished but I will have to search for one to match since I bought them over a year ago. Cheyenne and I put all the stuff back in the underbelly today and organized it as we went.

Talked to my parents and Hunter early this morning, they are officially Kentucky residents. They went to the DMV today and switched over their license and Hunter an identification card. Hunter has no interest in driving but needed to get an ID card to show he is a resident so he can start college there next year at Morehead State University.