Three Day Weekend!

Yay! It's a three day weekend! This is the first year that our company has decided to let everyone have MLK Jr. Day as a holiday, and we are very appreciative. We have a lot of work to do around the house this weekend, and as it is going to be freezing or below for most of the weekend, I think we might actually get some of it done.

Yesterday started with a bit of lounging about the house, then we showered and proceeded to drain and flush out our two hot water heaters. We ran out of hot water for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and couldn't quite figure out why (no excessive water use that day, pilot lights were fine), so we thought we'd better check to make sure we didn't have a bunch of sediment in the bottom of the water tanks. It turns out that there was very little sediment anywhere in the system, so who knows what caused it. We did successfully perform home maintenance without breaking anything else in the process, though, so we felt pretty good about that.

Flush from our morning home maintenance success, we decided to try for some more. I've been wanting to get some carpet down in the unfinished part of our basement that we use for storage so I can walk down there barefoot and not come back with my feel all dirty or gross. So we hit the local carpet outlet and found a couple of perfectly sized remnants for the storage space and stuffed them in our car for the trip home. After a very small amount of trimming to size, our new carpet was installed (i.e. tossed on the floor and stomped on for smoothing) and vacuumed and looking quite nice, for storage room carpet.

Last night was the KU-Mizzou basketball game (a stressful time for nearly all KU fans). For some reason, it was broadcast on ESPN-U, a channel that we don't get. Why on earth they decided to broadcast one of the biggest games of the season on an obscure channel is beyond me. We decided we'd either have to hit a sports bar to watch the game, or see if Matthew and Joella had that channel. We called M&J, but they didn't have that channel. However, they had been planning to upgrade their subscription to another package that did have that channel, so Matthew went ahead and did that in the afternoon, and by gametime, he had ESPN-U for us all to watch! We matched his kindness by bringing over a big BBQ dinner to share, and happily (well, nervously) watched KU pull out the victory.

On tap for the rest of the weekend:

Hang storage hooks in garage, apply misc. shovels, brooms, etc. to said hooks.

Wash four or five sets of bedclothes (we have 4 missionaries passing through next weekend, plus our bed needs washing)

Clean out the mess of junk in the basement (the pile of empty boxes and misc. junk has reached Jeff's tipping point)

Move my sewing and craft stuff into a room where I might be more likely to use it (it's in the unfinished part of the basement right now, dark, cold, dreary)