kind of bruin

Oh what a night. We needed to attach the cube shelves to the wall to prevent them from wobbling all over the place. First, though I had to move the thermostat, because once I attached the shelves to the wall, the thermostat would forever be set at a random temperature.

So after drilling a hole in a stud, I cut a different hole and tried to fish the wires from the existing whole. I failed terribly at this and managed to drop the wires into the wall.

What was supposed to be a short easy move, proved to be far more difficult, and because I started my project at 10 PM we would have to sleep in the cold, because for the life of me I could not hook the fishing line with a coat hanger. What a surprise.

So at 12:30 I drove to Meijer to buy a tape designed for fishing wires through walls. I managed to buy some popsicles and dish soap, but no tape.

So we slept in the cold. I woke up at 5 and figured out what I needed to cut a hole near the floor to fish the wires from the basement.

So around 5:15 I had the new digital thermostat hooked up to the wires, but the furnace would not turn on. The fan worked, but the heat would not turn on.

After, another 45 minutes fiddling with the furnace I decided to go back to bed.

I woke up at 11 and decided to hook up the old thermostat and eureka! the furnace came back on. Then I knew that the thermostat was the problem. Then I figured out that though there was enough juice in the thermostat to tell me the temperature there was not enough to turn the furnace on. So after stealing some batteries from a remote, I finally had the heat working. Now I only had to patch 3 holes and attach the shelves to the wall…

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Some pictures from grandma Kathy’s camera from the weeks past, a visit from Maria, Aunt Chrissy takes some pictures, taking long exposures at night and smiling at mommy.

Link to the photo set.

Its been a year. We miss you. Sue says the only person she really wants to hear from never calls her.
We miss you Grandma, Mom, Vera, Vickie.
You always said to bring home a grandchild, and not the dog…Well we are bringing home both, and are so very sad that you were not here to see him.

Your family is a mess with out you.  We all wish that we just got more with you.
Link in a new window of some more pictures of Vera