It was really great to sleep in our own bed last night. We both woke up feeling much more refreshed than we did the past few nights on the airbed. The air bed is certainly better than sleeping on the floor but it can’t possibly be all that great for your back.

We asked them to come pick up the trash container since we filled it up on Saturday and have only been adding small trash to it since then but they won’t likely have time they’ve told us. So they will come get it tomorrow which was the original plan anyway. It’s not causing any problems for us sitting there and we don’t pay for it by the day so this works for us.

Since we really want to get going on cleaning out the chicken coop and pressure washing the bird poo piles from the courtyard, we decided to go to the home improvement store on our way to the house and buy a water pump which hooks up to our ground water system. The previous owner ingeniously has run piping all over the courtyard and through the barn to the backyard so that all the water being used outside the house comes from the underground well. To say that we are pretty excited and amazed about this discovery is probably an understatement and again we have to say that apparently our thinking was very similar to the previous owner because many things that we would have wanted to do he has already done. It doesn’t get better or easier than that.

Naturally, we didn’t actually look at the hookup or anything else for the water system before going to the store but at least we had some idea about what the connectors looked like after checking them out outside. We had done some research at home the night before so we had some idea about what our best bet was and ended up with a nice Gardena pump.

Strange things found: Rat carcass