getting ready for the trick or treaters

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Finally have the basement finished, just a few things to put away, now we can get ready for the trick or treaters to come tomorrow night. Zesa and Ta are going to get the kids pictures taken tomorrow morning. The only thing missing is Bug, Pie, and M&M
I miss trick or treating with them!!!!!

A Beautiful Day

It was so nice out today, that I thought it would be nice to be outside instead of
painting, which probably was'nt to smart since I don't have that many days during the week to get the basement done. J mowed our grass and he always does the lady's
next door,so I worked in the flower beds. It was so relaxing to me,to me that is'nt work.
I put in about 60 more bulbs.. tulips,Iris,crocus & daffodils, cleaned up some of the weeds that grew since the flood, and put away my hanging baskets. I'm not sure how many more nice days we will have before it gets cold..so I had to take a break from the basement. Zesa and Ta went shopping at the Mall with the kids, so it was nice to be in the Sun shine for the afternoon!!!!! I got the front of the house decorated for Halloween, it looks good

not enough time

I know that I have'nt updated my blog since my birthday,
but I had alot going on. I was reminded last night when I talk to my daughter in law last night that I have'nt updated in a while. I feel like I have neglected everyone because of this flood.
After all the clean up, we had to get the paint off the walls because it was peeling. As we got the peeling off the basement walls it started to mold, so the cleaning
started over. Zesa has been so much help in cleaning and painting.. don't know what I would have done without her. Just getting the peeling paint off was a job and what a mess it made. I had a melt down in the the basement one night --thank god I was by myself and one one saw me... but the mess was to much, but I got over it and life goes on. Zesa and J painted about 3 quarters of the walls in the last two days and it looks good. I'm home alone today so I think I can get alot of it done today. It is just had to work and get it done, we just need to get it done so we can get things
done before the snow comes and we get everything back in the back in the house from the garage. Well I need to get to work, hopefully I can update more often.

Quiet Birthday

Today was a quiet day, I got e-mails from my sisters,my grandkids made me a cute
card..I love it, and I talked to my Mom and Dad, Troy and Tera on the phone. Zesa and Crazy Cousin K gave me a beautiful necklace and bracelet to wear on Saturday when we go to a friends wedding. We had ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. On Sunday we are going to T&P's to really celebrate.

grannys birthday

Make a Smilebox greeting

These 3 are why I say this is the best things in life!!!! makes everything that happened in the past two weeks go away.

Still cleaning

It is Monday, one week later... the clean up is never ending.. each day after the flood we were either taking things out to the drive way to the damaged pile or storing the things in the garage
that did not get wet. We cleaned a section of the basement at a time, we divided it by four sections. We bleached, used pine sol and some other disinfectants, and the power washer. J tried to kill Zesa and I with the bleach, he used too much and we had to leave the basement. Each section was cleaned three times. We also cleaned off the out sides of all the 18 gal containers.
Now we are waiting for it to dry real good, before we repaint the walls and the floor. The insurance man came over last Friday and gave me a check right on the spot after looking at all the personal things we lost. J & I went to the hardware on Sunday and bought 3 dehumidifiers, 2 sump pumps and 6 hoses, just in case we have a bad rain again, we will be ready. We are going to have some come in and put a battery back up on our regular sump pump. After painting the floor and walls J and Zesa are going to build shelves for my 18 gal container that have Holiday in them. We piled every thing out for the garbage man tonight. He be so mad when he sees everything. Now I need to go through the holiday and re-pack the items I can keep and get rid of everything else.....