It has been a pretty productive morning so far. The first few pictures are hanging on the walls, a few more boxes have been packed, the storage rooms finally have at least a bit of room in them to move around and most importantly we found our camping stove and can finally cook again.
The morning started slow. We were both pretty tired from the past week and needed a little while to get motivated, so we started with small stuff, like hanging some of our favourite pictures in the kitchen. The walls are so big and white that we just had to get some color in there.
A high point of the morning came when we just went ahead and tried out our old Siemens Gigaset phone system which we got while living in Miami but could never get running over here. We love that setup. It consists of a base station with digital answering machine and the capability to run up to 8 cordless handsets with it. This time we succeeded and were extremely happy. We need to get some new rechargeable batteries for the cordless handsets but otherwise it’s working perfectly. Thank goodness we have tons of extra transformers from our previous rental house & the tenants who used to live there.
As mentioned, the storage rooms are also somewhat usable again. We rummaged through all three of them trying to find all of our camping and outdoor stuff and moved it all together into the former goat stables. It’s amazing how much we’ve collected over the past couple of years. Multiple tents, lots of camping chairs, grills, etc., etc.. But the really good news is that now we can actually get in a couple of the storage rooms and move around. A major difference from before when we couldn’t even walk into the rooms once the door was open.
Now its time to get to lunch – we finally managed to get to the box with our camp kitchen, a topic on its own actually, and got our gas camping stove. So finally we can give the local pizza delivery guys a rest and cook for ourselves again until we get our granite counter top in a few weeks.
Our to-do list for today includes a whole lot more, including tackling that satellite dish again. Hubby thinks he feels like an idiot putting on his climbing gear, but hey – better than falling and breaking your neck. So, we are definitely not running out of things to do here…..
