I love Christmas. I'm like a little kid. There is great excitement and anticipation trying to figure out (aka, trick people into telling you, aka, lawyering them) what gifts you're getting...I've gotten my mom a few times with this technique. Now, it is even more exciting because of Coop and Cal. They still don't fully get it yet, but it is still a lot of fun with them. It was great to see Coop's reaction as we came around the corner this morning to see it big present. It wasn't quite what I expected; I'm not sure he knew what to think or what was going on, but it was still priceless.
Coop and Cal must be worn out as they are napping. Momma's getting ready for the day, and I'm currently prepping Christmas lunch. It's a little departure from what we decided would be our "traditional" Christmas meal a few years back, but that kind of happens when you squeal into town on Christmas eve and need to do some grocery shopping before the store closes with no idea of what you really need. This year, we will be having prime rib, loaded mashed potatoes, fancy green bean thingy, rolls, and red velvet cake. I hope it tastes as good as it smells.
No white Christmas for us; more of an ice Christmas. From the way it looks though, some of those back in the motherland are having a white Christmas. Sounds like fun. I've got a snowblower you guys can use and lot's of snow gear, but you'll have to come get it.
It is about time for me to hit the shower, but here's a little Christmas video for you.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Story Time
After a whirlwind trip, we arrived back in town just around 5 p.m. Christmas Eve. We didn't get home until closer to 5:45 or so, because we had to stop by the Walmart to get some groceries. I had thought about posting this story last night, but there were cars to unload, kids to bathe, presents to wrap...you get the point. The last blog teased of a story. Face-to-face ones have been done with great reactions. I'll leave out some of the details for you and get more to the point.
Before Thanksgiving, the basement toilet clogged up. No big deal, right? Wrong! All the usual stuff didn't work. I did move it from a clogged toilet to a slow draining one with clean water in the bowl, so I left it that way for our failed Thanksgiving trip. The drain continued to drain slowly but seemed a little improved. Because of its location, I didn't want to do a lot of work on it after the kids went down for fear of waking Cal up.
A Tuesday afternoon, I came home early knowing the kids would be at the sitter for a while. My mission: to fix the toilet, whatever it took. More plunging. More snaking. Still nothing would work. I had already decided to remove the stool if you I needed; maybe the actual pipe was severely stopped up. I was prepared for the worst, but not this worst. Save some details, shortly after removing the stool I discovered the real problem and proceeded to pull out a huge rodent from the stool. There are no pictures because of safety and time concerns of having to clean, take pictures, reglove, clean, take pictures, reglove, etc. That thing had to be at least 5 pounds of more.
The best I can tell is that this sewer rat was in the sewer system, chose our toilet to try to live that lifestyle behind, and was too big to make it out. Needless to say, he either drowned or suffocated. It was all nasty. And now, I look twice and still am a little uneasy when I use the basement bathroom; but at least you can now say, "Hey, I know a guy..."
Before Thanksgiving, the basement toilet clogged up. No big deal, right? Wrong! All the usual stuff didn't work. I did move it from a clogged toilet to a slow draining one with clean water in the bowl, so I left it that way for our failed Thanksgiving trip. The drain continued to drain slowly but seemed a little improved. Because of its location, I didn't want to do a lot of work on it after the kids went down for fear of waking Cal up.
A Tuesday afternoon, I came home early knowing the kids would be at the sitter for a while. My mission: to fix the toilet, whatever it took. More plunging. More snaking. Still nothing would work. I had already decided to remove the stool if you I needed; maybe the actual pipe was severely stopped up. I was prepared for the worst, but not this worst. Save some details, shortly after removing the stool I discovered the real problem and proceeded to pull out a huge rodent from the stool. There are no pictures because of safety and time concerns of having to clean, take pictures, reglove, clean, take pictures, reglove, etc. That thing had to be at least 5 pounds of more.
The best I can tell is that this sewer rat was in the sewer system, chose our toilet to try to live that lifestyle behind, and was too big to make it out. Needless to say, he either drowned or suffocated. It was all nasty. And now, I look twice and still am a little uneasy when I use the basement bathroom; but at least you can now say, "Hey, I know a guy..."
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Projects?
Does putting up the Christmas tree count as a home project? If so, I should have updated a while back.
There are several small projects around that need to be tackled but I/we keep finding ways to put them off. I had originally planned on doing some of them over the Christmas break but that probably won't happen now. Due to the failed Thanksgiving trip, we're making one over this break.
I did finally get around to a project this earlier this week that I kind of wish I had done a few weeks back. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on who you are, there are no pictures of this project. I didn't really think about taking pictures during the project and it would have made it longer and posed a bit of a safety issue. Does that peak your interest? I hope so because you'll have to wait a week or two to hear about it. There are a couple of people who read this blog that I want to tell in person before they read it here so I can see their faces.
There are several small projects around that need to be tackled but I/we keep finding ways to put them off. I had originally planned on doing some of them over the Christmas break but that probably won't happen now. Due to the failed Thanksgiving trip, we're making one over this break.
I did finally get around to a project this earlier this week that I kind of wish I had done a few weeks back. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on who you are, there are no pictures of this project. I didn't really think about taking pictures during the project and it would have made it longer and posed a bit of a safety issue. Does that peak your interest? I hope so because you'll have to wait a week or two to hear about it. There are a couple of people who read this blog that I want to tell in person before they read it here so I can see their faces.
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