Our days have been full of unpacking and trying to mange all the packing paper. Luckily the trash pickup comes twice a week and takes all the paper and boxes in the recycle truck! We finally got all the kitchen stuff unpacked so today I hope to get rid of that paper and boxes. Then I can start to organize the kitchen.
So far the only thing missing are drinking glasses and my big wooden knife holder. In the downsizing process when we packed up the house I gave a lot of stuff to savers. Our glasses were pretty mismatched I am thinking maybe I decided we should get a new set. I did unpack a couple small glasses so I can't imagine why all the glasses were not together. And my wooden knife holder? We rarely used most of the knives in it so......did I decide we didn't need it. I still have a few boxes to unpack but they are supposed to be my office stuff or garage stuff, so time will tell what is in those. So far we are generally very happy with all the reno. The induction cook top is amazing. I love it. The dishwasher is so quiet. We never had a garbage disposal in Andover so that has been a fun addition. The bathroom fans are awesome and no more foggy mirrors like we had in Andover. Yesterday the big job was to get the fountain running. It had not been run since closing and I wish I took a before pictures. It was green and good worse the closer to the bottom we got. Of course we didn't have a pump and there is no drain since the fountain just recycles the water so we scooped it out with 4 quart kitchen pot (that I discovered won't work on my cooktop) and a 5 gallon bucket that we dumped into the bushes out front. I brought one of my carts so we could wheel the bucket to the front yard to dump. We used to have 4 small palm trees in the courtyard that we took down soon after we moved in. They were a dirty variety of palm that flowers an has hundreds of berries that drop and covered the courtyard, beds and of course fell into the fountain and those were at the bottom of the fountain and added to the much. The upper portion of the fountain had 3/8 of an inch of green gunk that we had to scrape off. After a little sopping up the final gunk at the bottom and wiping down the walls, we found out hose in one of the garden boxes and filled it back up. And when we plugged it in, the water flowed!. We added some bleach and by morning all the green is gone and the water is pretty clear! The lights in the bottom do not work but they are on a wire that comes out easily and I think could be replaced. So happy that it works and it is actually on a timer and that works too! WIN WIN. Today I will try to find a home for the rest of the stuff I unpacked. We decided to celebrate Christmas day by going out to lunch at Ruth's Chris Steak house. We enjoyed going there for Thanksgiving with Deb and Joe so we wanted to go back. I think we got the last reservation! I will post some more pictures once we get a little organized.
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