Dining Room, Moving In, Water Main Break, Air Con Drip

5-27-13 Mon.

             The dining room table and chairs are being delivered at 11:30am today. The living room, bedroom, and study furniture is coming at 2:00pm today. The cable/internet guy is coming to hook us up tomorrow. Tonight will be our last night sleeping at the Beverly. I’m not sure when we will bring the cats. The best things would be tomorrow morning but Shih-Dong has to go to work and there’ll be no car. He said he would help us move the TV and computer equipment. Perhaps this will happen tomorrow night when I get back from American Eagle. The last to be moved will be the living things, Sweeney-Poo and Nala.

             We were busy moving things from the Beverly all day yesterday. I packed all the books and binders into backpack and went back and forth to the new house on my bike seven times. After Leona and I had lunch, her brother came over with his mini-van and helped us move all the heavy items; microwave, lamp, end tables, luggage. The heaviest item was Leona’s vanity. It must weight over two-hundred pounds. It got scratched a little on two ends from being placed on the rough floor. It can be touched up. We didn’t finish moving until 5pm. Most of our things from the Beverly are in the Renoir, the name of the new building I learned from Leona yesterday. I don’t know about the building itself, but our condominium unit is really shaping up to be a Renoir.

 

             There was a water main pipe burst yesterday and half of Taichung, Miao-li, and some other places are without water until 4pm today. I was able to take a shower at 10pm with the leftover water from the tank on Beverly’s roof but in the middle of Leona’s shower, the water stopped running! She had to go to the bedroom bathroom where she had filled the bathtub with reserve water and take a shower the old-fashioned way, with a pot of water spilled over her head.

      Last evening Leona and I got drapes from the living room balcony and ‘yellow’ light bulbs to replace the white light bulbs in the enclosed patio. They are all the new mercury light bulbs that last forever. We’ll need two more for the tea room. Now we have to get a rod for the drapes and a table for the copy machine, then we’re set.

      I just emptied out a full bucket of water extracted from the air in the study by the air conditioner. The tube the technicians put into the Renoir Condominium’s water evacuation system in the enclosed patio didn’t work; the water came out through the electric outlet near the floor.