Housing...

So...yesterday, we bought a house! I was super excited. We got a pretty cute little fixer-upper in town right across the street from Ty's brother. We knew it needed a little bit of foundation work, so we arranged to have that started today. We were thinking a couple of days of work should do it, but little did we know what we would find under the floor. In tearing out a little bit of the floor to work on jacking up on area of the house, we found joists literally sitting on the ground! Yeah! Wooden beams just sitting there on the dirt! No supports, nothing keeping moisture away, and some of them actually rotting away. What's worse is that someone before us had also found this, but instead of fixing it properly, they just nailed new 2x4s to the rotted ones and put the floor back down. So, we'll be doing some dirt work and actually replacing the joists that need replacing. Hopefully, this along with the supports the foundation guys are putting in, our foundation problems will be at an end. The real bummer is, that if they can't get the work all done tomorrow, the guys won't be able to come back 'till next week. Of course, the longer they take, the more time I have to wait before we move. So say a prayer for me and the foundation guys! I still can't post pics. Agh! Soon, though, I hope. There is so much to take pics of here, so I can't wait to get back to it.