SparkDad

My family and I travelled this Christmas! It was a wonderful two weeks. We visited family and did a lot of fun things. As we approached the city limits on our drive back home Mama said, “We really need a bigger house.”

I agreed and we have a plan for selling and moving. No exact timeline , but a plan. I started thinking about moving today and cringed! Ouch! Packing! Lugging the boxes! Yuck!

So I looked up several movers to see what it is going to cost to have someone move us.

I found this a moving company website that creates a free estimate and allows you to compare movers

In my investigation I found that most movers take between 1-2 weeks, yes I said weeks, to deliver your property once picked up. MoveBuilder takes an average of 2-5 days so they won hands down!

They also had a lot of Service Options including Packing, Loading, Unloading, Storage, Military Relocation and Corporate Relocating. MoveBuilder offered the choices to choose different levels of packing, loading and unloading which is very different from other companies.

Their pricing was very good as well. They base the price on the size of the shipment and do not concern themselves with hourly charges, so that is one less thing to worry about.

My estimate will be back soon and I will let you know how it turns out! Moving is exciting, but I can guarantee it will be a lot of work!

- SparkDad

Anyone who knows personally knows that I am not particularly handy with tools. I have very little patience for this sort of work. Mostly because nothing ever works the way it is supposed to, especially when you do not know exactly what you are doing. In order to save money however I decided that this repair was one that I could do. I notices that the garbage disposal had been leaking and had soaked the wood in the bottom of the sink. I pulled everything out and replaced the bottom board. Then used a $1.29 can of plumbers putty to reattach the garbage disposal to the sink.

I got it all put back in and it still leaked! Grr! This was supposed to take about an hour. 5 hours later after I had taken everything apart again and reapplied the plumbers putty , correctly this time, the sink is leak free! I was very proud!

The only problem I have now is that my Reverse Osmosis system is leaking because I lost a very small o-ring that goes in it. I will have to get that part and then we will be set! Not only did I save Mama and I money, but now I know that I can make these sort of repairs!

Today was a very productive day! I was able to get the bikes hung up in the garage and get a lot of the "stuff" that needed to go to the Salvation Army taken out.  Now I can park a car in there! Only one car, but that is a start.

I have some work to do still and will upload more pictures as I get them done. Some of you might know that I am a Knight of Columbus and that I follow the Fathers For Good website. They have great information for families and specifically focus on a Fathers role in the family.

One of the articles that I found with some great audio is this one. It talks about pornography and treatment of women. I think that many man more than likely have a problem with these subjects. Many men think that it is not a problem but Deacon Ralph Poyo tells about his own former addiction to porn and how simple things in our life sparked by the liberal media establishment can lead to a life of addiction and heartbreak.

Please take a few minutes to listen to his podcast interview at the website. Good day, I am off to fix the leaking sink…