One Step Forward...

I'm not sure why every time we make progress on the house it feels like something else goes wrong.  Saturday I spent 2 hours pulling ivy before work.  I'm glad Joel urged me to do it, because the weather turned drastically colder on Monday.  I'm down to the back corner of ivy.  I'll have to wait for a rather large thaw to get at it, but we made some progress.  We broke the shovel in the process of trying to get some of the thicker ivy rocks dug up, but we did get them dug up.  It's a bit hard to tell with all the fallen leaves, but I promise I had 3 bags of ivy when I stopped.

While I pulled ivy, the boys helped their Dad rake leaves.  BB was particularly helpful. It turns out his abundant energy can be harnessed for good and we appreciate it. 

When I came home from work Monday night I heard running water.  I went to the side of the house and found water streaming out of our water pressure valve.  Yikes!  The casing inside was cracked and the top had popped off leaving the water free to gush out.  I shut it off, and now we're waiting for the plumber to come.  We currently have a frozen puddle for a side yard.  Boo.  I'm just grateful I got home when I did and that I heard it otherwise it could have been so much worse. 

In happier news, we officially have walls on our bathroom that are primed and ready to go.  Now I just need to find the time to paint this week, so we can get the flooring and shower tiles in.  I got an awesome deal on the flooring.  It only cost me $40.  Wahoo!  I guess I can use the money we saved on flooring to pay the plumber now.  Sigh.