Home Improvement

We are still slowly getting our empty house filled in and looking like our own. We started with a project that was no so fun, but completely necessary. Our dishwasher started making this funny grinding noise and it just got worse and worse. In fact I stopped it in the middle of the cycle and hand washed everything because I thought it might explode. It was 9:00 at night but we decided right then and there that we were going to solve this problem. Jacob got out his tool box and looked up a you tube video. (We would be completely handicapped with out you tube videos...) The video we found was a lady with her toddler in the background making all sorts of noises I'd expect to hear in a zoo. She seemed kind of ditzy and didn't really build our confidence in taking apart the dishwasher, but I got brave and decided if this lady and her zoo child could do it, so could we. Then Jacob started taking apart the dishwasher like a seasoned handyman and this is all the goop we found...

I could not believe we were washing our dishes in THAT. I mean, there was worm looking scum stuff in there. We also found a screw that didn't look anything like the screws holding the dishwasher together. Probably a contributing factor to the scary noises. We still don't know where it came from but we're pretty sure it doesn't belong in the dishwasher. We scrubbed and scrubbed... and scrubbed some more and had a beautiful clean dishwasher afterwards.

Now our dishes look cleaner and our dishwasher sounds so much quieter. Jacob told me he gets jealous when I run the dishwasher during the day and he's not home to hear how quiet it is now.

We also recently replaced a chandelier with a ceiling fan. We just did not enjoy the old chandelier that came with the house. It belongs in a haunted castle. (It looks semi cute to me in this picture, but trust me, up close and personal, its an ugly mess.)

 Putting up this ceiling fan was probably the worst three hours of my life. Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong and we even had to use you tube videos again. There were all sorts of wires everywhere that didn't match the colors we had, parts screwed in wrong, horrible directions, dropping important screws in the motor... it was awful. In the summer when the afternoon sun is beating into our family room and we have a nice breeze to keep us cool, the worst three hours of my life will all be worth it.