As with many moves we’ve had over the years, you want to get your new home DIALED IN before you really get comfortable. With our new place, the place we bought, this is no exception and there seems to be an even bigger TO DO list than normal. For the big stuff, we called in the master, mr. fix-it, a.k.a. egghead.com : Paul (dad) Manley. He came down last week, taking a few days of vacation from his 9 to 5 to help jump-start our fixin’ -up.
He arrived with his Porsche 911, filled with all sorts of tools and electrician equipment… and a lawnmower. If you know anything about a Porsche, there isn’t a ton of in room there – but somehow he fit it onto the passenger seat. (putting that Ohio State engineering degree to use)
Over the next few days we put did some electrical work by putting in a celling fan/light and outlet on our back porch, new microwave over the stove along with some under-the-cabinet lighting. He also built us a gate for our front porch so when we open the front door, Brutus won’t dart into the street. It was a very productive weekend.
With all of my dad’s help, we never got anything unpacked. I guess that’s what this weekend is for.
manley the house is sick man!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope all is well. i just returned from afghanistan cheers to me.!!
What a great looking house! Kudos to your dad for figuring out how to load that lawnmower into the Porsche; classic dad move! BTW: Brutus looks like he is in jail.
Everything looks great Brian!!! My dad has done the same thing with the Merc a few times.