Let's Try This Again

 Farewell to the trailer.  She was doing well, but in December we had two floods.  The first one, we left for the weekend and left the water dripping in the bathroom to make sure it didn't freeze.  Somehow, the plug fell into the drain and blocked it, causing it to fill up and spill over.  We got that one cleaned up - water all over the floor, in the heat ducts, under furniture, etc., etc.  Then, a few days later, the furnace stopped working, the water pipes froze, and the toilet valve cracked.  Once the water thawed, we were flooded again.  And now the furnace doesn't work.

We fixed the toilet and made it through the end of the semester with space heaters, but it's time to give the trailer a rest.  We towed it home before Christmas.  One of the art professors at Snow College just built 2 small townhome-style apartments a block from the school.  We rented one of them.

It's two stories, living area and kitchen on the first floor, bedroom and bathroom up a spiral staircase on the second floor.  It's tiny, about 450 square feet total.  But that's at least twice the size of our trailer.  So we're back now for the winter/spring semester, reveling in our big, new space.

Kathy has started school.  I'm working from the apartment.  I've been doing contract work for a little software startup called Siriux since the end of November.  Next week I start a new position as a supervisory IT program manager with the Veterans Administration.  It's all remote work, so I can work anywhere.

Here are some pics of our new place.

The outside - We're the left half of the new grey building behind the silver car, next to the old stone home. And yes, it's very snowy and icy here.

The inside - plush and cozy

The kitchen - Washer? Dryer? Dishwasher???  We're not in the trailer park anymore.

And here's a little bonus - Kathy's first wire sculpture from her 3D Art class.

Don't try this at home


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