Basement Flooding *Update*

Well after working from morning till night, we have managed to get up all carpets of any kind in our basement. We went to the store and bought about 20 plastic bins to put everything that was in cardboard boxes. I was amazed at how much water a cardboard box holds!

We had to get a wet/dry vac to clean up a lot of standing water and I must have emptied that thing about 40 or 50 times. In the process of cleaning the basement, I did something to my shoulder. Now I can barely move and even bending hurts my shoulder, and lifting a fork causes great pain! I am hoping that it is gone soon, otherwise I will be off to the doctor.

We managed to haul a whole garage full of trash up from the basement and the guys who come by to pick up our garbage are going to hate us lol. After everything was in bin, I bleached the floors, and half way up the walls to make sure we had no chances of growing mold. My husband had two carpets that we wanted to save, so they are out sunbathing to kill anything in them and I sprayed them down with lysol. I opted for new rugs but in the effort to save money we are going to try and salvage these two small rugs.

It seems like if anyone sneezes the power goes out here so we have discussed that we definitely need a generator so this kind of stuff doesn’t happen in the future especially since we will be building a room down there soon! Needless to say, I am exhausted and we still have some things left to do, but we have it all cleaned and it actually looks so much better. I had not planned on doing much of anything this weekend but shows how much I know!

Woe Is Me

So I have been missing in action because I have spent my entire day, dealing with a power outage. It seems like when anybody sneezes around here the power goes out. Today we had a massive storm come through which wiped out our power for about 6 hours.

As a result of the outage, I had no phone and two toddlers that were hungry so we headed out the door. first I had to get the garage open which as you know has to be manually lifted because there is no garage door opener when the power goes out. I couldn’t cook because we have an electric stove and I didn’t want to open the fridge to keep our food from going bad. I think since we have lived in this house we have lost 4 or 5 freezers worth of food! Grrr.

The best part about the whole outage is that our sump pump, which you guessed it, runs on electricity was not working for 6 hours. When the power went back on, it dawned on me that the pump was going more than I am used too. I go to my basement and its got about 2 inches of water covering the entire place. So this is what we will be doing this weekend! We have carpets down there, we have boxes of things ruined and my husband has all the computer stuff. We have had to throw a lot of it away. I need to go to bed ugh! Calgon take me away!!!

Jam Packed Weekend

Well, I survived the garage sale that we had this weekend and I am truthfully pooped out.  Garage sales are a lot of work, and everything seems turned upside down for the entire time you are working on it.  Both of the boys were total crabby pants because they didn’t get a lot of the attention they are used to.  MY house looks like a bomb went off in it.  *Note the toy room* (I apologize for the crappy quality, this was taken with my little farty camera)

As you can see, the place is a disaster, and not how I like to keep house.  I just look at it and I don’t care  HA! My house will take a week to get back to normal, but on a positive note we made about $500, so not too shabby.   I plan on having another sale this Fall, and at least everything is ready to go and priced so I don’t have to suffer through that!

After all that, I still had energy to go Strawberry picking this morning.  I already went last week, and made 9 half pints of freezer jam and decided I wanted to make more.  The first place we went to, was horrible for brining toddlers and they made  us stick to one row with horrible berries.  This new place, was awesome!  They had berries as far as the eye could see and I went alone and had the field practically to myself.  When I was leaving with my 10lbs of berries, there were about 60 people.  I will be making this a tradition, because I can remember when my grandmother used to make jam all the time.  In August, they have peaches!  I love being outdoors and being out in the country.

Garage Sale Weekend

Well, I decided against better judgment to have a garage sale this weekend.  There is a community sale and we had to give $3 to help with the cost of advertising if we wanted to participate.  We kept going back and forth whether or not we wanted to have one and 1 week before the sale we decided we were going to do it.

I didn’t get around to going through the boys things until late on Monday, which means I only had about four days to get myself prepared.  We went strawberry picking on Monday which was a whole other story, and I made 9 half pints of freezer jam on Tuesday, right in the middle of garage sale stuff.

Let me just say for the record that I HATE, no I LOATHE, garage sales!  I Hate getting all the stuff ready, I hate going to them, and I hate watching people rummage and bargain with someone over a ten cent item.  It seems like everyone wants something for nothing.  I told my dear husband that he can sit out in front and deal with the people and I will deal with the toddlers inside  LOL.  If I paid $30 for Gap jeans and I have them marked for $3 , then you should be a happy customer!  If ya don’t like that price, try and find almost new Gap jeans for that price.  Garage sales can be nice for a rare find, but to tell ya the truth, I am just not the hunt and peck type.

I hope we make some money because I am so tired and I didn’t realize how much junk I had, so I would be very appreciative of anyone who takes it off my hands.  Wish us luck.

Site In Progress

Along with my changing age, I am currently in the process of changing my site.  So, if you notice things looking a little  bit crazy for the time being, it is because I am trying to get comfy in my new digs.  I am really liking the new layout and am totally excited about it.  It will be a refreshing change from what I am used to.

Today we celebrated my birthday and I went out to lunch with my best friend and it was so nice to just go out minus any kids.   We then did a little window shopping and sort of browsed around and bought a few little things.  We all had dinner at the Japanese steakhouse and the boys loves it!  They had so much fun watching the chef throw things around and they were really good.  So, all in all, it was a great day.

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