The girls and I spent all day on Wednesday cooking and baking. We made homemade mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, cornbread stuffing, sweet potato casserole, apple pie, 2 pumpkin pies, 2 chocolate pies and a yummy Snickers dip recipe I found on Pinterest!! Then we prepped the glazed carrots for cooking in the crock pot on Thursday and got the rolls ready to start rising.
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| Crumbling the biscuits for the stuffing! |
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| Now crumbling the cornbread for the stuffing! |
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| Thursday, getting everything out and bringing it to room temperature! Luckily my brother lives next door, so I had his oven going too! |
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| Getting the dessert table ready! |
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| Now getting the food table ready! |
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| Journey was not a lot of help, until it came time to clean/eat the crumbs up off of the floor! |
It was a fun day, but boy did our feet hurt at the end of it! Doing so much prep work the day before Thanksgiving really allowed us to relax and enjoy yesterday though.
So, we had 22 people come over. My uncle brought a yummy turkey and my cousin brought a pecan pie. My dad and step-mom brought 2 delish pecan pies, deviled eggs to die for and a ham ! Mom and step-dad came with Mom's famous corn casserole, jello salad, green bean casserole, gravy and the best banana pudding this side of the Mississippi Line!! :)
Best part of the whole day??? My step-brother and his sweet wife brought their new 1-week old daughter!! Yes!! I got to hold a beautiful baby yesterday!! (I might have totally creeped out my sister-in-law though by asking to watch her change the baby's diaper! I just love seeing their little legs and feet though and when they are all wrapped up in their blanket and snug clothes you can't see their little cute feet and legs!!!)
Needless to say, we had wayyy more food than we could ever eat and wayyy too much fun. What a blessing it was to spend the day visiting with family.
Oh man, I bet you are wondering why I have a title about the septic tank yet all I am doing is talking about Thanksgiving and food!! Well, let me dive into my septic tank drama! (Oh gross!! Not literally of course!)
Last Friday we had all of our different inspectors come to the new house, the regular home inspector, the termite inspector and the septic tank inspector. Mr. Septic Inspector showed up a couple of hours late, so that was not off to a good start.
After poking and digging around in the yard for an hour, he announced that he could not find the system and would have to check with the county for the plans on where it is at. Okay, a little bump and delay, but no biggie. We asked the couple we are buying the home from if they would give us a few more days on the contract clause that allows an out if something fails inspection and they said of course!! They gave us until Wednesday :)
Monday comes around and he calls the county. Well, the property system was not registered with the county because it was there before that was required, so...no plans. Okay, another little bump, but again, no biggie!
Tuesday arrives and finds our septic inspector carefully digging up the yard following the septic lines to find the tank and....he finds it!!! But there is a little problem. The lid has been cemented on and he can't get it off. Mr. Septic Inspector calls us and tell us that the -lenk/leach/whatever it is called- field looks good and the lines look old, but good as well. The little problem is that he can't get the lid off to inspect the tank and he did not bring the equipment that will allow him to do so.
Oh, one other little thing, he is going to need to charge us another $75 on top of the $150 we are already paying because this has been more work than he thought.
Okay, so we agree to pay the money and to give him until Wednesday. We remind him that we must have a report by Wednesday because, otherwise, we are locked into our contract. No problem!!
Wednesday comes and we call several times and try to speak with him and...no answer! We leave several messages and...no return call!
Yup, you guessed it, we still have no idea the condition of the actual tank! We do know that it has not been pumped in about 50 years though!!! Trust me, with my family of six moving in, we will definitely need to do some pumping!!
Good news is that at least we know where it is now. Bad news, there could be a giant hole in the bottom of it and it is all going into an underground cave!
Moral of this blog story.....If you ever come to visit us, don't dig too deep or go spelunking! You don't know what you might find!!
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