First Week

There are boxes scattered everywhere, but we are (mostly) moved into our new house! We're in the process of figuring out how our new stuff works. Here are a few discoveries so far....

The wood floors are dark enough that they show dirt pretty quickly. We're in the process of figuring out how to clean them without scratching them. Any dirt embedded in the brooms will leave scratch marks.

The stove, a 30" DCS gas top/oven works very well. I'm surprised just how differently the gas cooktop works compared to our electric (in a good way). Pans heat up much faster, and the heat is very even. The simmer setting is perfect for cooking hot cereal, and Low is just right for cooking up a batch of chicken stock.

Our phone/internet took (is taking) some time to set up. We wanted to keep our old phone number, which worked out when we moved from the old house to our temporary digs; but trying to go back apparently wouldn't work out. We found the reason was that our phone company was trying to set us up with Fiber, not copper-based phone/internet....and the Fiber comes from a different exchange. Even though they're the "same" company, for some reason they couldn't give us our old copper-based phone number??!!! So we told them we wanted copper, not fiber. After a lot of phone calls, they showed up, ready to put in a copper line for the phone and fiber for the internet...pretty strange. The installers were scratching their heads, wondering why the heck we would want to do that (we didn't). But in the process of setting up the account for copper, we got our old phone number back. And then we told the phone company to just install the fiber line (it actually costs a little less than the copper phone service). So now we have our old phone number and fiber phone/internet. The games you gotta play sometimes.