Wednesday, 18 June 2008

• Wow -- I'm bad at this

  OK -- so keeping up with a blog when I'm working full time and don't have internet at the house is really tough....Anyway - Things are going pretty well in our neck of the woods right now. I have a ton of pictures that I need to post...I'll get to that some day when I remember the camera.

  Right now Brad's at (hopefully) his final physical therapy session for his shoulder. He goes back to the doctor next week for a final follow-up and then I think he's really done with Dr's this go-round. He did get a full work release from the doc 2 weeks ago...so he got laid off from work. Don't think for a second that this isn't all for the best because the following morning our house flooded (water seeped in from the 3 walls that are underground) and I can't begin to express how thankful I am that Brad was home. See -- I was out of the house for the day (up at 5 to hit a HUGE sale in town with a friend...more on that later....and then I was working till 9pm) and if Brad had been released from the Dr. earlier he would have been laid off sooner and probably would have been out of town for work by now - so no one would have known that our floors were sitting under 1-2 inches of water until late that night and who knows what we would have lost... With  Brad home I got a frantic phone call begging for help and an extra Shop-Vac...We were able to get a lot of water up off the floor, find a storage unit for a bunch of our stuff, and get all our carpet ripped up....

  WARNING -- Do NOT believe someone that tells you carpet can be dried after it has been completely saturated with water....we removed the pad and got fans under the carpet as fast as we could, but the house still smelled terrible so it's all gone...we're walking on cement right now..the first few days were to make sure that we weren't going to have any more problems with water coming in, now we're just trying to wade through the options in flooring...talk about overwhelming!

  Seriously...we are very fortunate that our carpet was all that was damaged. So many people near us have lost everything they own and trying to start over...so few had insurance to cover the damage...Pray for the people in this region as they try to rebuild, it's going to be a long process but the work has already started...

  Onto lighter topics....We have a new litter of kittens..5, beautiful, healthy kittens. We had a litter that didn't make (3 kittens born to a mom who just wasn't ready). We also have chickens...They're still young so we don't have eggs yet, but Brad assures me that we will this fall. It's so fun to stand outside at our house right now and listen to the barn... the chickens make a little peep, peep, peep, and the sheep bahhh, bahhh, and our little rooster is finally finding his voice... he'll really sound "Cock-a-Doodle-do" some day, but for now we're settling for "Ca-ca-coo"

  I really am going to try to be better about posting, but I can't make any promises....Hopefully you'll hear from me again soon....and with pictures.

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