*Isn't Price Chopper a silly name? It seems so...unprofessional, or something. I am really missing my Giant - that's a really strong name for a grocery store -and I think Safeway sounds very reassuring to the consumer. And Harris Teeter sounds extremely qualified to sell me food. I just can't pull into the parking lot of Price Chopper without wondering about the marketing team that okayed its name. Oh, and they just got a Trader Joe's here and people can't decide if they like it or not because it sells strange things, like Greek yogurt.
But, it's all pretty necessary. Since the house is so old, it wasn't built with insulation. The walls are plaster and lath which have meant pretty steep heating and air conditioning bills because the heat escapes in the winter and so does the AC in summer. To prep for our living here, A came in to town a month or so before we moved and knocked down walls in what will one day be our living room to insulate and put up drywall. New windows were installed in that room and in the rest of the downstairs front rooms at the beginning of the summer, too. All that PLUS the new central air conditioning which was just installed on the first floor have meant that even on the hottest of KC days (105 degrees, 100% humidity, anyone?), we've been nice and cool inside. But that's just a start because there are a lot of windows upstairs...We did discover, however, that this house was not built in the 20's as we thought, but more likely about 10 or 15 years before that. A pulled out some shreds of an old newspaper that was dated July 4, 1912 and on it we could make out real estate ads for houses with 7 bedrooms for $4,880. We thought that was pretty cool, especially considering that's less money than the installation of the central air on just our first floor!
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