Trespassing

I totally trespassed on the new property over the weekend.  It's vacant or I wouldn't have done so.  I drove a friend by the place and saw something horribly disturbing.  The in ground oil tank was decommissioned, so they had an above ground tank put in.  We'll change our heat source over to natural gas soon, but there has to be heat in the meantime.  Anyway, this is what I could see from the street.  I'm not too familiar with oil tanks, but the ones I've seen in the past have not looked like this.  I would think all of the rust might mean that the tank is in some way compromised as well, which may not be good.So I went to investigate some more.  I'm really happy that the "new" oil tank will be letting people know not to park on the side lawn.  It is confusing to know where to park--do I choose the enormous driveway, or the lawn?  The best thing about it all is that the guy who installed the tank also gave the seller's realtor a bid to pass on to us for the conversion of the house to gas.  Yup, he's the first person I would trust with that job.

I sent these to our Realtor (who's on vacation just when I need him!  I guess he can have a life.) and he forwarded them on to his oil tank guy for more info.  I'm really hoping something else is in place by the time we sign papers on Thursday.

Otherwise the weekend was good times.  Gretchen enjoyed her first swimming lesson.  We got there early and watched the swimmers.  She was getting so excited watching everyone that she was about jumping out of my arms.  The lesson involved a number of songs that every parent but me knew.  They must have gotten some guidebook to kids that I have yet to see.  I felt like I was experiencing some cult gathering.  After the lesson Gretchen was so tired she was in a deep sleep on the entire ride home--very unlike her.