As promised here is what happened with the now and us. I got my math science field day beanie from SCC. It showed up yesterday just in time for this snow day! We made a couple snow aliens. The snow was super sticky in the morning and made for very easy snow ball making. That…
Category: House/Home
Another Idaho First – Snow Day
Yep it snowed a bunch over night. So school for the girls and I was canceled today. I have had school canceled once before in my life and that a few years ago for extreme rain, of course I was already at school that day when they sent out the “stay home” alerts. We got…
The First Actual Snow That Stuck – at the house that is
Today I woke up and we had the first actual accumulation of snow on the ground here in Idaho. It wasn’t much and it mostly melted by noon, but it was a buildup of snow. There has been snow on the mountains for a while now, but this is the first at the house that…
Some House Updates
There has been a number of things going on around the house here in Idaho over the last couple weeks. So, here is an update of what is going on. I enjoy grilling food. Well, I find it an easy way to make food at least. I have a propane grill that we moved up…
My First Blowout
Now that I live in Idaho I have a number of new things I get to experience. I got to experience one this weekend. That is a blowout. What is a blowout you may ask? Well, our yards here are all watered using irrigation water. We get that via sprinklers here, and not flood irrigation…
Plumbing Job – Water Filtration!
The house here in Idaho has a soft water system already hooked to the house. As a family we decided very quickly that we all hated it and I turned it off and bypassed it within a couple weeks f being here. But the family did want a whole house water filter. we had one…
The Orchard Begins
Another thing that I did last weekend was start the new orchard at our new home. For those that knew our house in Chandler we had the following trees in our backyard: Plum, Fig, Peach, Orange and Pomegranate. And we had a pretty good size garden as well. Well last weekend I started the process…
Appliances
When we bought the house here in Idaho we had to buy a refrigerator, washer and dryer. We knew that coming into things. We got good ones there. Now that we had been in the house a few weeks, living here and doing life here we found that the dishwasher was not really working all…
Sold the Old House and Paid Off the New House
It has been quite the week for the Canham’s. We finally were able to sell our house in Chandler. We sold it to our neighbors and friends. It started off as looking as if it would be rather easy to get through the process, but then there were some hick-ups along the way. The inspector…
A First for Me at Our New Home
Last night I made dinner at our new house. That was a first. But the new thing for me is that we have a gas stove. I made a chile verde pork that I bought at the grocery store. It went well. I didn’t burn anything which was nice. I will get years of learning…