So… we had to redo our sewer line. The best case scenario was that it would cost about $2400. If the water line got in the way or was damaged, it was going to be $1400 more. Turns out, through a series of unfortunate circumstances, our final bill totals more like $6200. Yikes. Not knowing this a couple weeks ago, we went out and bought some stuff. Stuff we could have lived with out, but stuff we wanted pretty bad, or maybe *I* wanted pretty bad. The first item on the want want list is this lovely glider chair:
It swivels, it glides, it reclines, it is water/stain resistant. I’d been looking on craigslist for one, but the used ones seemed to be ugly and seemed to be priced pretty high still. We got this one for a little over $500. I think it’s going to be in our home for many, many years. It will probably move to our bedroom if we ever pry it from our kid’s room.
Second item on the want, want list was a gas stove to replace our old electric stove. Our stove worked, it worked ok actually, but it was starting to get on my nerves. The oven temp wasn’t digital and the nature of the knobs meant you really had no idea what temperature you were setting the oven too, also nothing to alert you that the oven was preheated. This makes bread baking very challenging. It makes any baking challenging. I also can’t stand those stupid electric coils, the pans are always wobbly on them and you end up with one side of the pan collecting all the juices while the other side is dry. This stove has 5 burners, a flat work surface, self cleaning oven, and digital controls. Me very happy.
This is what wound up happening to our garage and basement. When we got the initial estimate, it sounded like they’d just need to break up one square of concrete outside the garage, get the city to do some work in the alley, and just meet up the new sewer pipe in the alley. Turns out the water pipe was directly above the sewer line so they had to redo that, and they had to dig out the entire garage to get to it. Then as they were digging, they discovered we have Class “c” soil under our garage, very unstable. A city worker actually fell into a sink hole as he was working on the alley portion. So in order to save our 102 year old garage, they had to stop digging, and go into the basement in order to lay the pipe in. To be honest the whole description of work makes my head spin. Our water line was 60+ years old and the pipe was very corroded, probably only had a couple years left, especially after having to be disturbed by all the sewer work, so c’est la vive. But ouch, lots of money.
So now we have a new chair, a new stove, a new water line, a new sewer line, and a very damaged bank account, once that was supposed to help us get through my quitting my job to go and have a baby. Oops. Good thing our CSA is paid for.
But enough house stuff. I had an ultrasound on Tuesday. This is Juniper at 32 weeks, 2 days:
All is good, good organs, good position, good size, no chord around the neck. She showed off for us pretty good and I got to see her open and close her mouth a couple times. I feel 100 times better knowing she’s dong good in there. I met with the midwives yesterday and they are not at all concerned with my diabetes, my numbers look good and they have no reason to refer me out to a doctor. So we’re still full speed ahead with the home birth. Go Juniper! You will not be made of sugar and spice.