Well I have learned a lot about my little house since I moved in. One neighbor told me that the deck is brand new and the old one was in bad shape, he said that they re did the floors down stairs and also the cling in the "dining room" Another neighbor told me that in August of last year they had to exterminate a bunch of squirrels that got in through the roof and had to replace the ceiling and dry wall in the stair way because of them. She said that they flushed them all out and their was a army of homeless squirrels running down the street, I guess they just kept on coming out... I"m really hoping that they closed the squirrel door up. It seems like my neighbors were very interested in my house, because both of them actually talked to the people that came to work on it.
Yesterday I was cleaning up dog poop in the yard and kept finding weird stuff laying around. I found a berried grill poker, a golf ball a bouncy ball, bunch of garbage... My lawn is going to need some work -- But it will be fun & Jer will help me, he already had ideas for it. I want to plant lilock trees and maybe one more tree, maybe a maple, not sure.
Another kind of funny thing that happened was my Nicor gas bill. I got it and it was a estimated one for $50ish, so I called and the lady and she said that they did a reading but they had to ajust it because of when I bought it, I guess figuring out who owed what... She said that that reading was really high though and the bill might be around $300, This made me really un happy, that was a LOT. She looked into the history of the bills and said that they we usually high around that time of year. So, I figured I wouldn't be having much extra money and better get a room mate. Then we had a blizzard, and before the blizzard hit I went out and got a bottle of expanding fome, I sealed up all the holes in the basement, even crawled in the crawl space which was really scary, I calked all the windows up and added a door strip, then I got clear calk and sealed the windows shut. I was ready for the snow, but was still sad about my bill (i'll get back to that later). The blizzard hit, once I found out I would not have to go to work the next day I invited Missy and Ryan and their dogs over for a blizzard party. we had pizza and wine and hung out, the dogs had fun... it was a good night. The next day I lazed around, had breakfast and then wend out to dig out. Wow, 2.5' of snow in my drive way. Thankfully one neighbor did the side walk and Missy and Ryan helped me with the drive way, I would have been over their all day if it weren't for them. Then, it got cold, VERY cold. I smelled gas outside, called Nicor they came out and sure enough I had a leak, they fixed it. Then about 3 weeks later the snow melted and it rained -- my basement did not flood!!! Good little basement. The nicor people came out to do another reading on my request, they wrote me a letter and according to them their bill of $50 something was correct, and my next bill would be similar. I guess keeping my house at 60 degrees was paying off, my cold nose as I fall asleep, my cold feet as I watch TV, and all the after shower shivering... Maybe all that was a little over kill.
