The Octopus's Garden

We have been here six months - half a year. Hard to believe! Around 7am this morning workers showed up to stand next to the crane that has been occupying our yard almost as long as we have. The guy that brush hogged our yard asked if he could keep it here "for a few days" - and we all know someone like him. They are always 2 hours late, if they show at all - they will leave things with you and then act a bit surprised that it bothers you - it doesn't bother them so it's mystifying. The fact that it might be a little annoying to the neighborhood to have heavy equipment running around at the crack of dawn on Sunday, well - but I'm glad it's finally going - I was beginning to figure out how I would be decorating it for the holidays. 

So we continue to work on the house - we're at the point where we can finally get the floors refinished, David is going to finish up (hopefully) sheet rocking, spackling and painting the bedroom upstairs so we can start to put together the guest room. David's done the electrical work in the kitchen but the rest of the house still needs done. Like most older home the outlets are few and far between which means we have little octupi sprouting all over the house. We have 3  power strips in the living room alone, I have a Jackyled device in the bedroom - every outlet and port on that  is filled for the tablets, watches, phones, ereaders, on and on. The chandelier in the dining room is interesting, sometimes it's bright, sometimes it's low lighting, you never know. But the fixtures in the entryway, outside and in the dining room are going to be replaced so for now we just deal with it. 

The only place where there's great outlets is the Serial Killer Basement. I'm sure I've talked about it before - we have a basement that was so well hidden  people that looked at this house didn't even know it HAD a basement. There was a false floor in the closet and when you pull it up there's a built in ladder. We usually hang on to the clothes bar to step on and then down you go. It's a pretty big size and you can stand up straight and walk around, it's very well poured and when we moved in the only place that did not smell of cat or was full of dead bugs. The one thing I noticed was all the outlets - David was surprised to see they are up to code, all of them. We thought because it was obviously added later - there's even a separate breaker switch for it - but then,.....I get it. 

It was added before pot became  legal - we have our very own secret grow room!! 

But since you can buy pot all over we are not growing anything so we use it to store attic stuff, etc... David accidentally cut up the floor (he thought it was left over wood) so he has to redo that. The last thing we need is a guest falling in the closet! I'll be glad when we get a little further  along and I can start putting things away instead of it all sitting in bins. This will be the first place in a long time that we will actually be unpacking in instead of taking out the basics. Can't wait!