Victoria’s house, Saturday, travel today, FBI

Friday evening, after I had left work, Mama took me to the house Victoria and Grandpa are looking at. I can see why they are interested. It would definitely be a lot of work to fix back up but there is a lot of potential. Since it sits on almost two acres with a small barn and a little shed with a chicken coop attached, it is a good find for the price. It is only four miles from us.

Victoria’s bid is already in place but we were told that there is also a cash offer being considered. Although the cash offer is less that the full price offer we have made we will have to see if the heir is willing to take less since it is appears to be a sure thing. As of yesterday evening, our realtor had not heard back from the seller.

I had to get an early start Saturday morning because I needed to swap out the toilets in the bathrooms. The one in the master bath had started leaking because it did not fit properly there. The flange was placed so that only a smaller toilet would fit so the elongated toilet was about a ½ inch too long to make the seal. It ended up being just a little cockeyed and that had caused the tank seal to begin leaking.

After the toilets were set, Grandpa and I worked on the yard for the pigs and it took most of the day to get that done. I was tired and sore when we were wrapping that up because I had used the post driver to set the posts we salvaged from an area on the property where there had been a chain link fence enclosure for some animals. Although we used hog panels for the wire enclosure we build, the posts and rails from the old fence make it look pretty nice.

Later in the afternoon, Grandma and Mama went to the farm in Bowie to tend to the chickens and box up what little remained there. I am not fond of the way Grandma and Grandpa pack boxes. They leave them completely open so that they cannot be stacked or organized for storage. So all the boxes they have packed recently are sitting on the floor of the garage taking up three times the room that would be needed if they were property packed.

Anyway, while they were gone Grandpa and I put together the floor for the chicken coop and began to lay out the frame for the little steel building I bought at Lowe’s. I told Mama I started to read the directions in French since that made more sense than the directions written in English. We did eventually figure it out and got the base set.

Today Mama has to spend the entire day driving to and from Ennis, TX – about two hours away – to look at a truck Norman found online. There was some talk about going yesterday but Mama squelched that pretty quickly. If they like the truck, Grandpa has the money in hand to buy it. We will know the outcome this evening.

Mama, Victoria and I start out FBI training tonight. That stands for Faith Bible Institute. It is a three year course that the church participates in. Completing the course in its entirety we earn us a Bible Certificate from the college that administers the course. Mama is looking forward to it for now.

I do not know how that will translate once we start being tested.