Okay, tonight it's just a minor blip (we hope)! We signed everything yesterday, got the keys and have started the mad dash of prioritizing what needs to be done and started purchasing the items we need in order to accomplish all this.
We just came back from Lowe's tonight (a 50 mile round trip drive through a strong thunder and lightening storm) with a car load of stuff. We needed a shop vac, a room air conditioner, two smoke alarms, a lighting fixture for the kitchen, more light bulbs plus other sundry items - mouse traps, bug bombs (the house has been uninhabited since last October), and more cleaning tools.
Drove up in the dark, blinding rain, bumping over our very rough rocky driveway, trying to find the right key to get the kitchen door open in the pitch black, comically trying to find the correct light switches to illuminate the kitchen (you have to understand the type of house we just bought - hand built with really nonsensical light switch placements). I still cannot fathom why the main kitchen light switch is all the way across the room from the door. I am going to have to label all the switches because a lot of it seems completely random!
Anyhoo, I digress. We began to unload the car and put all this stuff away for the night. I walked into the room that is going to be our studio and discovered a growing puddle on the floor...upon inspection of the whole house it seems we have a leaky roof in several places. Damn! Supposedly it is a fairly new metal roof so I was not at all expecting this development. Grr. Now I have to get someone out to look at that. In addition, we need to get an electrician in to fix a few issues as well. Cha-ching...
I knew all this was a possibility going into this but I wasn't mentally prepared for a leaky roof! It's monsoon season in New Mexico so it rains pretty hard everyday now. I am going to take it in stride and understand the differences between needs and wants at this point, because we can't do it all right away. We have so many cool ideas but a lot of it will have to be put on the back burner while we work on getting the house in good functioning order.