3 July 2008
Welcome to God’s Country
Posted by Brian under: Family News; Farmin'; Home Ownership; The Red House .
After five days of cleaning, shopping, fixing doors, and doing laundry, Val’s family (minus Lindsey) is headed home this morning. The usually quiet Red House went from two people and fairly quiet to six people and only one bathroom. It turned out to be a great time, and we weren’t even phased by the lack of separate bathrooms. Last Saturday while they were headed down, Valerie and I were trying to get the last minute things done, and it seemed like they were falling apart faster than we could get them fixed. We had just finished having new windows installed in the house, replacing a leaky dishwasher, and Dad had been up for two days working on the screen porch. Much to mom’s chagrin, I think Dad has spent more time working on The Red House than he has on his own house lately. It seems to be all part of Dad’s master plan to eventually move back into The Red House himself. But getting back to my story, we woke up on Saturday to an air conditioning that didn’t work and a TV that was severely fuzzy. Apparently in the past people lived in homes (and even The Red House) that had no air conditioning, but through natural selection and evolution, man can no longer live in SC during the summer with no air. The TV was a pain, but the air was a tragedy. Valerie’s family was already on the way, and I was getting worried that they would show up, melt, and forever have a bad memory of SC in their mind. Since the only thing I know about HVAC is if it’s working or not, I called in an expert. Turns out the guy that showed up was also the one that put in the unit fifteen years ago. He crawled under the house, did some stuff, and when he came out the air conditioning was blowing cold air again. It was well worth the extra money that he charged because it was a weekend ($33 extra to be exact). Now that the air was working, we were ready for the Wiker clan. They showed up, I made them admire the garden, we ate, we ate some more, Val and the family shopped while I was at work, we ate again, Erik got a tick on him, we saw Porsche’s, I learned how to use a lacrosse stick to hurl a ball into the field where it can’t be found, they saw a movie, we ate, and in between all of that Mom found the time to launder anything that was remotely dirty (I think she may have even washed some clean stuff as well), and Dad made some adjustments to the windows and worked on a door that wouldn’t shut properly. Overall a good week. Now it’s time for a day off and FIREWORKS!!!! If you don’t see any more posts on here it means that I blew my fingers off at Derek’s.
2 Comments so far...
Patti Wiker Says:
4 July 2008 at 10:45 am.
The Red House is comfortable, charming, and beautifully decorated. The garden is amazing, I only wish I would be around to try the corn and watermelon - yum!
Judy Page Says:
31 July 2008 at 11:57 am.
Need to show pictures of the red house and garden. Gardens are hard work but worth every bite. When it’s winter time you can pull out those good veggies you canned or froze.