It has now been a full week since Heather and I moved into the house here in Atlantic.
The drive is long, but I think we can handle it. The house is… Interesting… more on that later. We realized that this weekend is the first time we have ever stayed home over a three day weekend. Typically we are on the road to somewhere any time we had a free day off, and would have been this weekend too, but the unpacking and whatnot tied us down.
Going back to the house, I think we have both really liked living in a bigger space. I honestly have no idea how we managed to fit all the stuff we apparently own into the apartment in Omaha, because this house does not seem empty in the slightest. Being able to get by with just open windows has been really pleasant, something you forget is even possible living in an apartment. Atlantic is really quiet, and this weekend has been remarkably peaceful.
The more interesting aspects of this house involve power water and gas. Water was, as the crew who helped us move into the house discovered, slow. There isn’t enough water pressure to do two things at once anywhere in the house. After you flush the toilet, there won’t be much water at the sink until after the tank refills. If Heather is in the shower, I cannot start washing dishes. Speaking of dishes, due to the low water pressure, the house is apparently unable to sustain a dishwasher, so we get to hand-wash everything.
Moving on to gas, I assume, without really knowing, that this issue is more with the actual oven/range we have, and not so much the house, but I have no idea. I found out while trying a new recipe Friday night (hopefully I will get a quick summary and pictures of that up soon) that the burners won’t work while the oven is heating. they sort of sputter fire, and you smell a lot of gas, but they wont burn right. It didn’t cause a huge problem, it just slowed things down a lot as I needed to leave a few minutes to preheat between finishing the stuff in the pan, and putting it into the oven.
Finally, we come to power. There isn’t a single three-prong outlet in this house. The outlet positions are kind of strange too, but it’s and old house and I wont complain too much about that. The really disappointing thing about the power situation is that my heavy-duty battery backup system I run on my PC is not happy. It worked fine for about 3 days, and then something must have prompted it to check if it was really grounded, discovering that it was not grounded, it went into some sort of emergency safety shutdown, and didn’t even send the power-down signal to my PC before ceasing operation. My hope is that if I can plug it into a grounded outlet it will at least revert to a non-panic state.
This post is turning into kind of a novel, and I fear I spent too much time on the downsides of the house, so let me restate, Heather and I are really enjoying living in this little old house 🙂
I will leave you with this picture, and clicking on it should take you to an album of pictures from the move.
-Jordan
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