Karate

The white belts in the adult class got their green stripe on Tuesday. On Thursday we got to spar for the first time since I joined the class. It was fun, but I was against a yellow belt that was about 14, so not much challenge. Next time I'm going to try to go against one of the adult yellow belts, or maybe one of the higher up students, or the teachers. I really want to get some good sparring time in, I like doing it.

House

Still waiting...

Karate going ok, one of the yellow belts annoys me, I will treat it as a learning experience. I have learned Kihon 1 (though I'd like to know what it's actual name is instead of it's number. My previous training in Tae Kwan Do interferes sometimes, as I tend to take too wide a stance, and twist my torso.

Kids are doing well, Meagan is having some trouble with the front leg muate, but doing well overall. She has a tendancy to interrupt the instructor though, going to get her in trouble at some point, but I think he's making allowance for them at the moment.

I don't think Sarah likes it quite as much as she did when Brenna and Meagan were in her class, but she still seems to be having fun with it.

Karate

Meagan and Brenna moved up to the adult class tonight, and I started my first class. The 3 of us went off separately with a green belt to go over the basic blocks and stances. I think Meagan will enjoy being in the older class, I'm not sure about Brenna though. She says she likes it, but I think she would have more fun in the kids class. She is Meagan's size, but still only 9, that 18 months makes a good bit of difference in maturity between the two of them. Sarah is still in the kids class, and she still enjoys going. While we are practicing she watches stuff on our portable DVD player, the other two do while she is practicing. I'm just glad they are all having a good time. I'm going to see if I can get them to practice with me in the evenings some now, they haven't really been doing that on their own.

House again

When my parents came by to drop off the kids today, I took them down to have a look at what had been done so far.  As we were walking back, I happened to look down the property line, and noticed that a great deal of the driveway was on the wrong side of the property line, so I'm going to have to get the construction people to move the driveway yet again.  I already had to have them move the entrance because they had that too far into my neighbors property according to the easement we have from them.  This is on top of them not knowing that they were supposed to have cleared 2 acres of land around the house which they are going to have to come back and do.  Hopefully they can get it all done at one time.

House

Well, the house is getting closer and closer. The closing went though just fine, and they have the hole dug for the basement. Unfortunately they couldn't put it exactly where we wanted it, as we have lots of shale clay in the area. They had to move it a bit closer to our property line (thankfully the one we share with my sister-in-law), and twist the house a bit, which has become a bit more problematic than the moving of the site. The door out of the basement now has to be on the right hand wall, as the property slopes from left to right, so if it was put on the back wall there would have to be retaining walls. We were planning on having the electrical and HVAC stuff in the back right corner, but now the door is going in that area, so I want the interior HVAC in the back left corner. The master bedroom is on the left hand side of the house, so having the outside unit over there may not be a good idea, although it would be near master bathroom, as that is what is against the back wall. The house is supposed to be on site sometime this month! Yay!

I'm going to be putting in 2 on-demand water heaters, one near the master bedroom, and one near the upstairs bathroom. I'm looking at a 2 model 180's, I think they should do quite well.