Some things never change.

Well I realized that it was the 19th and I haven't left a post in like 18 days. The thing that was sad though is that not much has happened in 18 days. I have worked a bunch of overtime, I have been working on finishing the hallway (which is actually almost done, at least the prep work and all.), we had a fence guy come in but it was a little more than we thought it would be, we had people over for the 4th of July, I have an electrician coming in for an estimate today, we have been sweating to the 100 degree heat and we are going to go and look at a cheap truck today for hauling stuff.

The hallway has an approx 1 foot square portion left that I need to fix once the ladder comes back.

The fence will cost $2600 if we go with this company. We are researching how much to do it ourselves.

The 4th was fun cooking out and all.

The electrician said over the phone that it avg's $1100 for an upgrade on the panel. We will see once he comes.

We got hot last night so we turned on the air conditioner that is in Grace's office. We then put a fan in the door to blow the cool air into the bedroom. That worked pretty well so we will probably be doing that from now on. I don't know how efficient it is, but hey it's hot.

Blue told me that his old neighbor is selling a Jeep pickup truck. He said it is in good condition mechanically, but the upholstery is torn. But all I need to use it for is hauling stuff around. A seat cover can cover up the seats that are torn.

And that's about it. Sorry nothing funny or witty this time. I was up for about 23hrs yesterday and I am still sortof tired. I did sleep pretty well last night and into the morning.

Hmmmm......What could it be?

Today I decided to finally finish up some loose ends with all the plumbing and such. I had to go to Lowe's for the only trip of the day. It was a good day only going once. I got some bolts so I could secure the spigot to the wall. So I got home and bolted the thing to the wall on the outside. I then went under the house again. Nothing was leaking so it still is a good day. I secured all of the pipes with the pipe hangers that I had bought the other day. So everything is going well.

One odd thing though. As I was getting the light and all of my tools and such out from under the house I see this weird object.

You see in older houses like this you have the floor joists, ok, and then in between of the floor joists you have these sort-of struts that cross in between of the joists like an X. Ok. These I think are used to keep the joists from twisting and such.

WELL, on the bottom of one of the X's is this baggy. Well, in this baggy is this green leafy substance. Well my first thought is that this nice young man that owned the house before us (and is now residing in a West VA prison) must have been a really good cook. Yes a cook. He must of had a garden and grew and dried his own "herbs". Yes yes, that must be it. Some type of oregano or basil or something. Well not being sure of what the "herb" could be I just decided to throw it away. I just mixed it in with the other "weeds" from yesterday that I had thrown in the super can in the back.

After disposing of that I went back outside and sprayed the weeds once again, this time with actual Round Up and not ant killer.

And that's about it for the day. Not much else to report.