Sorry I missed last week. In true Haldeman style,we ran right up to the wire on getting out of the Lakehouse before closing,which was last Wednesday. We thought we had plenty of time to be out Tuesday night… and we probably did, yet we didn’t. We had trouble getting the boats out, with one significant problem with a bearing on the wheel for the trailer of our old tired Mastercraft. Travis had to run to the auto parts store at 6:30 am last Wednesday for parts and we ended up having to leave the boat in our Lakehouse driveway for the closing. We even got to welcome the new owners for their walkthrough since we still weren’t out 30 minutes prior to closing. We left some of our belongings under our boat in their driveway. Travis swore up and down that we would have enough room in a couple cars, since we’d been moving stuff for a month. I wanted to get a U-haul. The truth was somewhere in-between. We left a small pile of items at Krish (Trav’s sister) and Jeff’s (her SO) place across the bay. Oh, and a jet ski in their front yard, but that’s not that uncommon in Monticello. 

So our Lakehouse is just a lakehouse that isn’t ours anymore. There is both relief and pain in that. And since we sold it to a relative of a friend, I got to see that friend post facebook pictures of fun at my old house over the holiday weekend. It was a little weird. And in the march to make our regular house also our lakehouse, we have discovered some things. This house, like the lakehouse, is on a grinder pump. I’ve written about it before. The problem with being on a grinder pump is if your electricity goes out, your waste water can’t be pumped out. Somehow, we didn’t truly understand that when at the lake, so we never fully grasped how dire that situation could be. Here, we managed to realize it before we were standing ankle deep in our own waste, which is nice. But we realized that without a generator to run essentials, we can’t afford to run ANY water if we don’t have electricity. Since one night the electricity went out for hours, we taped the handles of the toilets so nobody flushed them, and put mixing bowls in the sinks. We knew that water would run to the sink for a little while without the pump… oh, I forgot to mention that we are well water and need a pump to get it to the house. I guess that’s good because maybe we will be less likely to overrun the system and end up standing in our own waste. Of course, all is fine until someone needs to go number 2. Just thinking about it makes my bowels want to kick in. But what are the odds of nobody needing to do that with so many people living in a house? I heard the next day which kiddo had to share the dogs’ toilet overnight, using a plastic bag and Kleenex. Fortunately, there are plenty of dark isolated areas of our yard. I think that part of the proceeds from the lakehouse will go towards a generator before one of us gets arrested for doing nature’s business in nature.

Have a great humpday everyone. Remember to count your blessings! I am forcing myself to  remember that everyday, as the move to simplify our lives gets more complicated.