The Fonzie Apartment

The apartment above our garage is now inhabited, and both Evan and Peter gave good guesses as to the inhabitants, however neither was correct. Apartments are ripe with possible pop references including one of my personal movie favorites is the Billy Wilder classic "The Apartment". But that has nothing to do with Garages and the definitive "above the garage apartment" that belonged to the Cunninghams and was inhabited by Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli (aka The Fonz). Just like the Cunninghams we have also invited someone to stay in our apartment for an undetermined amount of time. In fact we have invited an entire family to stay in our aparment!

Michelle's sister Laurie and her S.O. (read: common-law partner) Rick are currently building a house that is not finished. Despite promises and plans for the house to be done by today (Jan 31) The house is currently missing some windows, all of its drywall, all of the flooring. While the basement is warm and has its windows there is no way into the house without some form of ladder. Anyway because of promises and plans they had to move yesterday and they had no where to move to, so a couple of weeks ago Michelle and I offered that they could live in our apartment for the interim. Oh, of course Laurie and Rick bring with them their three children: Matthew (2), Aidan(5) and Sydney (15). Yes our apartment is a bachelor and the fridge they brought is in the hallway! But then cramped life with your precious belongings is better than hotel life ($$$) and fewer belongings.

For those of you who think moving is fun most of us believe that it is more akin to organ removal without anesthesia. This was reinforced yesterday by the exhaustion and troubles faced by the end of the night. It seems that not all of the outlets in our hallway work! So the location of the fridge seemed in doubt until we managed to work something out.

The adventure of home ownership continues...

For the record there seem to be very few pictures of the Fonz's apartment (this is a challenge to anyone who thinks they know the web and how to search it ;-).
The included photo was all that I found.