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little mouse he wasn t violent or anything didn t hurt the mouse except maybe when he caught him to bring him in the house and seemed genuinely baffled that the mouse didn t want to do anything but shiver in terror so i didn t expect there to be much of a problem getting the two cats introduced but marcello has been hissing and growling at the new kitty last night we put the new kitty in our room and closed the door but today they ve been interacting for several hours last night marcello was the one following the kitty around now the kitty is following marcello no the kitty doesn t have a name yet but we have several possibilities we re waiting to see if it will work out with the two cats first hopefully this whole hissing and growling thing will only last a little while longer you can totally tell that both of them really want to be friends they just have to do the macho cat thing first i don t have any good photos yet because it was dark by the time we got home but i will try to get some today for those of you bethy katie who are dying to see this new little friend aaaah yardwork june 10 2011 in house latest musings 3 comments i am so not an outside person i have never found enjoyment from working in the yard princeton on the other hand loves it he enjoys working with his hands and when we found this house with a big yard in desperate need of attention he couldn t wait to make it something beautiful the first step started last fall was cleaning out years worth of debris we raked away bags and bags and bags of leaves and hopefully deprived thousands of mosquitoes of their home and started trimming back bushes that now think they re trees we were going to try to grow a lawn from seed and started that in the front yard but kept having these torrential rainstorms that would wash our seed away then one day in early april princeton found someone giving away sod on craigslist and was able to get one truckload it was such an immediate gratification product we decided we were still going to try and be patient with the front yard but for the backyard we were taking the sod shortcut we found a sod farm not too far from here and they ll sell us the sod one pallet load at a time they load it in the back of princeton s truck so we don t pay any delivery charges and we ve been doing the work ourselves so far we ve laid down four pallet loads and the yard is coming together so nicely it s so wonderful to see it go from bare earth to green lush grass we re spacing out the sections mostly to allow one area to establish itself before adding to it and in case it turned out that the sod wouldn t grow in our very shady backyard but also because our goal with this house is to pay for all home improvements with cash and although the sod isn t very expensive it s still nice to space it out over separate paydays here s a picture of the yard after the second pallet of sod went down you can see the sodded part in the foreground and the rest of the yard is dirt we will probably need at least three possibly four more pallets of sod for the backyard but it s close to halfway sodded by now we ve been watering by hand using a hose and a sprayer then bought a sprinkler but finally decided it was time to turn on the sprinkler system when we bought the house it was advertised as having a sprinkler system but we didn t think to ask if it worked the control box was plugged in in the garage and we could hear it humming away so assumed you know what that word means that it worked we didn t move in until late october and the humming was irking me so i unplugged the control box and didn t think of it again till a couple of weeks ago but we plugged it in and nothing so we went digging literally found one thing that looked sprinklery in the front yard dug it up and found a second water faucet in a plastic tube in the ground but turning that on just made water come out of that faucet then we talked to our next door neighbor who told us that he has two separate water meters one for water to the house and one for water to the yard the yard water doesn t get charged sewage so that s a little cost savings princeton poked around and found the second water meter opened the concrete box and turned it on we turned on the first section of sprinklers and they worked unfortunately they re to a part of the yard that s been taken over by a magnolia tree and has no grass so then we turned on the main front yard sprinklers and that s where the fun began instead of beautiful sprinkles of water we soon had a gushing river coming out of the ground by the side of our driveway we turned off the water princeton started digging and we found out that the pvc pipes for the sprinklers had been overgrown with tree roots and cracked some of the roots he had to dig out of the ground were 8 in diameter even though there s not a tree for at least 12 feet we think there must have been a tree there in the past that is now gone so off to lowe s where we talked to a guy in the plumbing department and came home with what we needed to fix the broken pipes we got that all done turned the water back on and found another leak in the yard then another when those were all fixed we turned the system on and the pressure release valve near the water meter which was corroded and icky burst spraying water all over there too so we we meaning princeton although i am a very good helper replaced the release valve and one of the sprinkler heads and today we turned the water back on plugged in the sprinkler controls and hooray we did it water to the front yard then we turned to the next section and found one more leak but the sections after that are to the back yard and the new sod and they work great tonight princeton is at lowe s one last time to fix the leak in the final section which we don t really plan to use for now since there s no grass there and the overgrown bushes and weeds have survived this long without water i m amazed at how thrilled i am just to have sprinklers in my yard of course now that i am finally posting this to my blog i realize that i probably needed to take a few more before pictures and it s still not too late for some after pictures but if i wait for photos it might be four more months before i post to the blog about me abcs april 5 2011 in latest musings 1 comment okay i know you want a real blog post well i guess i m just trying to get back in the game thanks to my friend jen at http rtheyallyours blogspot com i figure i ll try it age 42 bed size queen which is plenty big chore i hate mopping floors dogs no way essential start of your day sleeping in if possible then gotta check email and facebook favorite color hot pink gold or silver gold all the way height 5 7 instruments i play piano job title mom wife creative memories consultant kids 3 age 24 21 and 10 live madison al mom s name ruthann nicknames coey invented by one of my younger sisters who couldn t say nicole so it turned into kikicoey and then just coey 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so i know you re all still out there coming up for air october 27 2010 in latest musings 1 comment hello blog friends it s been just over a week since our household goods were delivered and i know you re all dying to know how it s going i m glad i gave myself permission to not put photos in my blog posts because i still haven t found the cable that connects my camera to the computer the move went well we had really friendly efficient packers who got our whole house packed up in two days instead of the scheduled three of course they did that by packing the boxes so heavy that when the movers showed up on the actual move day i heard some grumbling and one of the movers is married to one of the packers hopefully they ve worked it out by now we had scheduled our delivery date to be wednesday the 20th because princeton was signing out of bragg on the 19th but the truck driver showed up friday and said okay i m planning to deliver this monday morning ack we did a lot of back and forth on the phone with the moving company and in the end compromised on delivery tuesday the 19th not the best option because it meant we couldn t all drive down together but not the worst either because it meant alex and i could still go to church sunday and say goodbye so that s what we did alex and i drove down monday with marcello our kitty who did not like being in the car and is still acting somewhat traumatized we brought our air mattresses and slept in the house then were up and ready by 8 00 when the truck showed up never ever have i had the unloading day take so long we always buy food for the packers movers on the outgoing side but they re always done by lunchtime on the incoming side not this time they started at 8 am and finished at 4 30 pm and of course we are way over our weight allowance 5000 pounds gross which hopefully will be reduced to more like 1800 once they take out the professional gear and packing materials nobody can tell us how much that s going to cost us either i m hoping for just 1 per pound but i ve heard horror stories of people having to pay 5 per pound over worst of all is that we may not know for a year how much we owe ah bureaucracy we ended up filling almost all of the 53 moving truck but that meant we could do a door to door move and not worry about anyone else s stuff getting mixed up with ours almost everything seems to have survived unscathed with a couple minor exceptions one of our old end tables purchased in 1995 lost a leg princeton thinks he can fix it but i want to throw it away and two of our uber cheap target bookcases about 30 new fell apart but that s okay too nothing we need to file a claim on so we ll avoid some paperwork in the week since we ve been here i ve managed to get the vast majority of the unpacking done as of tonight eight days later there are no boxes left in the kitchen dining room or formal living room some boxes in the great room because we gave away our entertainment center and now i don t have a place to store all our dvds and cds but i am shopping for something any ideas i have put a few boxes in katie s room aka the guest room which has no furniture in it as of yet but they are mostly pictures and things which i haven t decided where to hang yet there are still some boxes in the hallway upstairs but the bedrooms themselves are almost box free this of course does not mean that everything that was in the boxes is put away yet but somehow a pile of stuff to sort through and find homes for is less overwhelming to me than a pile of boxes i had planned to do the downstairs scrapbook room last but yesterday we had this massive storm system blow through and at two points in the afternoon they issued a tornado warning and told us to go to the lowest point in the house for us that s the basement where the scrapbook room is luckily there s also the 5th bedroom down there which we are eventually going to use as an exercise room and so we hooked up a tv and the kids watched in there while i unpacked almost all of the boxes in the scrapbook room i m so excited to get it all done and be able to scrapbook in there my very own scrapbook room of course there are still lots of boxes in the garage since princeton started his new job on monday and hasn t been able to go through them it looks worse than it is because of all the empty boxes that are down there too but my goal is to get as many of the boxes unpacked as possible this week and have the movers come pick up the empties on monday morning then i ll feel like we ve really moved in it hasn t been all work either we ve also spent almost all the money we d saved for furnishings and that part has been fun i still want to get a captain s bed for alex s room he needs the storage and not having an under the bed to cram stuff will be good and a table for the breakfast room but other than that i think the massive spending spree is almost over until we get the gutters replaced and start working on the retaining walls in the yard and of course we d love a new dishwasher that isn t so noisy and actually fits our dishes so that s the latest pictures will follow at some point though i make no promises as to when that will be i did finally find the iron though it was in a box in michelle s room of course so the camera cord has got to turn up eventually right it s almost here moving day october 11 2010 in latest musings 3 comments it s been almost ten years since the day i sat down at our old mac performa in germany and read the email from princeton s assignments officer you are going to fort bragg expect your rfo within the next ten days it did not say do not pass go do not collect 200 but it felt like it did i cried had you told me that day that i d cry when it was time to leave bragg i would ve thought you were crazy cry to leave fayettenam well i think it might happen of course there is no such thing as fayettenam anymore fayetteville is actually a really nice town and we ve had a great time here we ll miss lots of places and lots of people yesterday one of our friends from church threw us a going away party and had such nice things to say about our time here that i couldn t help but tear up luckily another friend was standing next to me and said don t cry and because i m always so compliant and obedient i stopped it does kinda make you wonder though when people find out you re leaving and decide to throw a party today is columbus day which means the whole post is pretty much closed so princeton doesn t have to continue his chasing around getting signed out of things like the library and bowling alley kidding i don t think you have to sign out of the bowling alley anymore instead we are doing all the last minute things we need to do to get ready for the movers who come tomorrow i have accumulated so much stuff over the past 9 years and hate to admit it but i think i still have a few boxes i never unpacked when we moved here from germany in 2001 i m trying not to think too hard about whether or 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