Day 120

The pantry has been plastered and starting to get sanded.  What we have been doing a lot this week is evaluating our septic issue.  Don't ask me because I'm not an expert.  I know there is a problem that was supposed to be fixed by the owner before we bought the house and he said it was fixed.  From what we found out, it was only about 70% completed and by a company not certified to do that kind of work.  We are having someone come out to tell us what needs to be done to fix it.  I just hope it's not like, really expensive like it could be.  After we know what's going on, we're going to call our realtor to see if anything can be done, since the agreement was that it would be fixed. So Josh dug up the floor to see what was going on.  This is where our second bathroom would be. 

Josh also completed the cement board in the dining room so next would be to lay the tile.  He also cleaned up the garage, which has kind of been a catch-all.  

His dad's friend came out to look at our basement since we are still getting water in it.  He suggested we dig a ditch to drain the water away from the house because even our front yard slopes towards the house.  Josh's dad knows someone with a Ditch Witch, so we would be able to do that ourselves.  His dad's friend offered to help as long as he could hunt in our woods.  Our woods isn't very deep, but it's long.  If he thinks he can get a deer in there, good luck. 

We started talking about carpet in the bedrooms.  Probably not sanding and staining the hardwood floors up there anymore.  We are in too much of a hurry to move in and were going to carpet them anyways.  Josh plans to start framing the laundry room and downstairs bathroom soon.  I'm sure we will move in before the downstairs bathroom is completed.  We can live with one bathroom for a while.  Heck, we've only lived in a 2 bathroom house for 2 months anyways.  My parents is technically a 2 bath, but one bathroom just has a claw-foot tub that no one uses, so basically the house is 1 1/2 baths.  

We just really need to get this septic issue worked out to really move forward and in.