Our (ugly) Dream House: Can of Worms I say

Really starting to feel like the house is that way. I start one project get about 30% into and than 5 more things pop up. I get to 80% and I feel like "eh" and force myself to finish the last 20%.

Lets talk electrical shall we??? We knew when buying the house that we were going to have to update the electrical due to the panel being only 100amp and a Federal Pacific (50-50 chance of just burning the house down). When we brought out the electrician to give us a estimate this is where things turned south. Like everything else in the house the builders cut corners and the didn't lay a conduit for the electrical line to the pole. YUP live wire barely 6 inches in the dirt roughly 95 feet in length. A-W-E-S-O-M-E
So a $1600 project turned into $5500 in a blink and now we had to dig a trench. This was my past week. electrical and a trench...joy. Now par for course we get the trench going and my retaining walls, made up of lord knows how old railroad ties, started to crumble. Just crumble and now that is another $2000 in just trying to get the retaining wall by the house replaced. The retaining wall by the lower driveway I am going to do at a later date cause when our fantastic landscaper said nearly 6k for it all I just felt like I got gut punched. That will be a later post on how that went.

oh oh oh oh oh and tttthhhhhaaaannnnn my furnace died after we turned the power on. You know on the day it snowed, in MAY, it just died. Thanks be to God for that warranty and it only cost us $75. Two out of the three major components went to furnace heaven. But at least its working and keeping us toasty warm.

Huge shout out to Swartz Electrical and their entire staff for not robbing us blind and genuinely caring about the work they do.
Aire Serv for getting the heat back up in half a day (Friday afternoon no less)
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