Home Improvement

Well, mom and dad (Gary and Ellen) were the only ones working on the house today. Estela, her parents, and I all had to work today. Another one of those days where the house didn’t look a whole lot different but quite a bit actually did get done. A HUGE guy from SDG&E found our small gas leak. They were able to fix that by replacing the main valve leading into the stove. No more getting high or threat of explosion. Yay! There was much rejoicing!!! A lot more cleaning and prep-ing was done today. Plus, Gary and Ellen were able to set up shop. They got our spare bed set up in the living room (sorry about that by the way) so they have a place to stay. Hopefully things will continue to get nicer and we can get carpet in there soon guys. They also got some curtains hung, despite our first set of curtain rods being to small (ask Estela for the story there.)
Tony made some big progress on our kitchen plumbing problem. The problem is that our kitchen sink currently drains directly into the back yard about a foot from our back door. The previous tenants (or even somebody before them!) modified the drain plumbing and mucked it all up. They put in a new stand pipe which is only about 2 feet tall and then the pipes go down about 6 inches and then become level as they work their way around the entire house. Needless to say, this doesn’t really allow for proper drainage.Therefore the pipe is clogged somewhere and now just overflows out the mini stand pipe. Whoo hoo! (friggin geniuses.) Anyways, Tony got it all dug up so we can start replacing it all. He also got rid of a bunch of our yard waste which mainly came from the spider infested bushes that used to adorn our entry way. Thank you Gil!
Well, that’s about it for today. Thanks again for tuning in. We’ll be back tomorrow. Same Bat time, same Bat channel.