Jenkins Power Company now a construction site

Wow posting 3 times this week. Really unusual. I guess enough stuff is happening in my dull and boring life that it is worth writing about at this time... or it least I feel like writing about it.

Well I knew it was going to be a busy day today, but I didn't realize how busy it was going to be. Kids started off the morning by getting up about 6:30ish this morning with a loud TV going on. I got up a little before 7 just because I didn't want to get up and get moving. What also suprised me was the fact that Samantha had gotten the step stool and gone into the panty and retrieved the box of Reces Puff's opened them and then both kids had a bowl of cereal with milk and eating when I got up. I was suprised and really counted my blessings this morning.

The kids got to watch some cartoons this morning while I cleaned up the back yard from the night before where I trimmed down the palo verde trees in the back yard.

On a quick side note, I had gotten a jucier a few months back with the intention of using it to help juice lemons and grapefruit, bad idea a $14-20 fruit juicer works much better. So after I got up I decided that now would be a great time to juice those carrots and celery. I am trying to find the right mix so that it tastes a bit better. So I finished off the carrots and celery and combined the juices together and had some with some OJ. It wasn't the best but it worked for this morning. I have been trying to do some fruit smoothies with some protein shake added. This has been working out well. It fills me up and is healthy since I am lucky if I eat breakfast half the time in the morning.

So we spent the morning cleaning up and putting stuff away.

About 11:30 is when the fun all started. I need to get the satellite dish fixed because it went out went the two storms blew through and I though it wasn't in a great spot and was blocked, and the old dish was usable but I couldn't connect to it because the previous installer cut the cable 3 feet short, grrrr. All I needed to do was swap the reciever outside and reconnect it. So the satellite guy came and I explained the issue and he agreed and proceded to fix the issue.

Noon, my new neighbors from a couple of houses down saw the tree down and gave me a good price to cut up, haul away the tree, and fix the sprinker system. They have a landscaping business and know what they are doing. I wasn't expecting them til later so I was suprised they were there that early.

12:30 ish The water softner guys show up. They were coming buy between 1 and 3 to do the install. So right now I have the Direct TV van in front. Tree branches in the front yard and drive way with their truck and trailer across the street and now a third van in the street. They were redoing some pipes as well because the previous installer that put the in the water softer for the house, read this as the previous owners took it so I didn't have one, didn't do so good a job of it. They were also working on the outside spigot as well. One of the guys commented that it felt like a construction site. I had to agree with him with all the work and vehicles around the house.

3ish Grandma Jonason shows up. I needed her to watch the kids real quick and hang out while the guys worked. I had to run around the corner to Walmart to get some inexpensive dress of drawers for the kids. She also brought her old charcoal BBQ for me that she didn't need anymore. Woot.
Just as I was leaving Walmart it started to rain. It did one the of Arizona brief but hard rains. The water softner guys have to come back tomarrow to check for leaks for the back yard spigot and the landscape guys need to come back to fix the sprinker system. The rain only lasted maybe a half hour but it soaked everything enough that they can't finish the work. Grandma had to go to get back to her dog that was freaking out when a storm comes in.

5pm-5:30ish or somewhere around there... get back from another trip to the store to grab a few quick things and started the BBQ and had steak and did some carmel apples. I got a idea from the fair or somthing. I decided to do carmel apples. The kids really haven't done then and I figured it would be a good treat. I need to only go about half to 3/4 at the very most with a apple corer/slicer where it cuts the apples in sections. It didn't quite work as well as I wanted but it was close enough and tasted pretty good.

8ish Blogging the long day and relaxing for a few before calling it a night..

It was stormy night

Well funny story now...not so funny when it happened.

Basically had another windy storm last night out here and it was blowing stuff around in the back yard. So I went out back to move some stuff inside for now. Now I though that I had the sliding patio door unlocked and went out the master bedroom door and forgot that it is locked. So I go out to the back patio in just shorts and close the door and then find out that the sliding patio door is locked and the other door inside is locked. I don't have my keys on me at the time either to get back in.

So here I am with the wind blowing really hard and it sprinkling a little as well and no way back inside the house. So I go to the side of the house where the kids rooms are and knock really hard on the windows. Nothing... so I make my way to the front of the house and try the door bell for a couple of minutes. Nothing. I am starting to wonder about my kids not waking up. I have another key to the house with the kids grandmother and can call if needed. So I went back and banged on the kids rooms windows for a little while long and finally got a rather freaked out and frightened Timmy. He went to the front door and let me in. Needless to say it took him a while to calm down and finally went to sleep on the couch.

Not to mention that while I was out front I discovered something. The big tree in the front yard had blown down as well. Thankfully it went away from the house. The funny thing is that I was just talking to a friend about deep watering and if you don't that the roots will grow sideways vs down. Bad time to realize that lesson from the previous house owner.

Update: After talking to the tree service company it looks like I won't be able to save the tree. So now I just need to figure out how I am going to get it removed.

House, school and more

Well it has been a week and a half since school started. Samantha has been doing well as usual. She likes her new teacher and is having fun. She has a set of triplet girls in her class...oh boy.

Timothy hasn't been adjusting as well and will be changing schools. He has been having behavior issues. We will see how he does in the new school next week.

Well also been in the new house for about a week and a half as well. Got the boxes in the kitchen put away and working on the rest. Working on cleaning up the trees ect. for the yard. The grass in the front yard is coming up amazingly quick. I didn't think that I would have to think about how to cut it quite yet.

On a side note...a home is a strange thing. A home has a set of noises and sounds. When you go somewhere else or to someone's house the sounds are different. I remember the noises from the apartment. I can still hear the water going from the neighbors showers. The kids upstairs running around. The radio in the morning from the nextdoor neighbor. The loud fan from the ac unit. But now there are new sounds. The sounds of the ac unit outside from the bedroom. The sounds of the fish tank. The sounds of the kids in their rooms as the move around. It's interesting how the sounds we get use to change. It's like music that we are use to listening to or comfort food. Slowly getting use to the new sounds around here slowly.

New House

Quick post... been a while... found a house and after some paperwork issues on the title companies side we finally closed yesterday. Moving in tomarrow, so going to be busy.