Under Control

Well, it’s taken a while but we finally feel like we are getting everything under control. The pool is fixed up and working, the Jeep got “Clunkered” in on a new Honda Fit (more on that later), and Darrell’s house (our previous rental) is clear of our stuff and damage is repaired. We even made our first mortgage payment today! Best of all, our house is unpacked and otherwise organized enough that we can really start defining how each room will function. We gave Lee, Nicole and baby Zoe a video tour via Skype that seemed to work pretty well aside from a little motion sickness (sorry about that). So if anybody wants a tour but can’t come visit let us know, otherwise we’ll try to get more pictures up as we get the house set up in more interesting ways.

I’ll save you the story (in fact I just wrote it but I tell long stories…who knew?) but we “Cash for Clunker”-ed the Jeep in for $4500 towards an 2009 Honda Fit Sport. The Jeep needed the transfer case rebuilt plus is was basically driven like a car since anytime we needed something truck/brute like we took the Bronco. The fit was a little more expensive than Toyota’s we looked at and a lot more than a Chevy Aveo we drove (it would’ve been $6k for a brand new car, it’s hard to argue against that), but it was also head and shoulders above both in terms of quality and features. We figured out how to make the payments work and picked it up this last Wednesday. It has a whopping 130 or so miles on it now and so far has gotten about 33-35 mpg with mostly town driving.

It makes the Bronco, Motorcycle and House look kind of sad but hopefully that will help encourage us to get everything else all shined up. Oh, last thing before I get back to the neverending job of making the fence Jo-proof, Cayse has named it “Pounce” because it looks like a cat in the dark in a picture we saw with it in a dark garage with the lights on.