New House, New Problems....

So, you think moving into a new house would mean that you are "scott- free" for awhile in your fair share of homeowners problems, right?

Wrong. Try Again.

We are finding all kinds of things to deal with lately!

First off, we have ants. Not really a big deal... except these ants are ants on a MISSION! Apparently, the cat food bag had a teeny, tiny hole in it & that was all it took.....
Because, these ants decided they wanted a new place to live themselves, so they built it.....
RIGHT IN MY LOWER CABINET! Can you believe that? They took tiny cat food crumbs from the bag & were building an ant hill inside my cabinet! Eeeeeekkkkkkk! I am shivering just thinking about it! Gratefully, Randy & i had bought some pesticide for our yard & we threw some granules in there & around the cat food bowl & in about 5 minutes, they were all dead. Clean up was a breeze after that! So i went the next day & bought an airtight container for the cat food!

Another issue we quickly discovered after moving in was that this house was in serious need of gutters! We couldn't hear the TV when it was raining for all the water plopping down in puddles outside. It was bizarre! Apparently the roof line has such a steep incline to it, that the force of the water was making incredible holes in our yard....THe above pitch made this spot all splattered in the front & even with guards around the crawl space, there was water splattering all in there!
However, this pitch line above the garage was by far the worst.....
It made this huge puddle in the mulch (this picture does NOT do the damage from the rain justice. This was DAYS later.) When it was actually raining, i think the puddle would have been up to one of the boys' knees! No kidding!
So, we sent an email out to our church family and got a great contact to get gutters put up for an unbelieveably great rate. We are so excited & when it rained for the first time after they went up... i didn't even know it! It was blissfully quiet!

You know what else we have?
WASPS! Yikes! And on the FRONT porch! I guess the pretty little porch will have to be just that.... pretty & unused! No, i am sure we will use it.... because i am calling the pest control place THIS WEEK! I can't take much more of the ants, WASPS, and ticks.... oh i didn't mention the ticks???? That's for another post...... (poor Lola!)