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.

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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.....

What a week!!

On Sunday morning Zesa ( that is what Doogie calls her) called us to the basement because
water was coming up the drain near the washer. I grabbed the shop vac and tried to suck it up. I also started putting towels down thinking I could contain it to one area. J went to the hardware to find a pump so if it got real bad we could pump it. It seems like he was gone for ever. It was coming in faster than Zesa and I could clean it up. I called T&P to see if they could come and help and if the knew any one with a pump. They were trapped in their subdivision, the water was worse by them. I called some friend to help and they came with buckets, shop vacs and two other guys to help. All this time J is still trying to find a pump because they were gone from the shelves in the stores. We started a chain of people up the stairs 6 of us and passed buckets up
the stairs to empty them out side. It is still pouring out there. That did not help. One funny moment that happened to my friend Joanie, she is always saying she is a princess and can't do alot of things around the house, so her husband helps her alot, but she was being a trooper and was helping us bail the water outside. The water is a dirty brown and we are not really sure if it is sewage. Joanie and I were on the bottom floor filling buckets and handing them to everyone one on the stair steps. Zesa's handle on her bucket broke and the water went all over Joanie on her head and everything, she yelled out "Hey you guys remember I'm a princess" I just laughed at her and said, You've been de-throned.. We had to laugh or we would just cry.... They called our friend Donna and she came over with a pump and hooked it up. J finally got home, the only thing he could find was a pump that you would use to pump water from a swimming pool. After a while he hooked that up also and ran that one too. The water was coming in faster than the two pumps could pump it. By now the whole basement was in about 4 inches of water. We tried to put everything up high, but still had shelves and such on the floor that we could not put up. I went outside to check on our neighbor and to move the hose that was from the sump pump so that the water would go to the street. I was soaking wet, because the rain was still coming down. The neighbor gave me another pump and hose, so I gave it to Zesa and she hooked it up to the other side of the basement. Three pumps and four hoses going out to the street and it was still coming up... As the water was coming up some of my 18 gallon containers that I have holiday items in tipped over and was floating all over.. some got water in them. The rain stopped about 4 hours later and the the water went down in the street. The water was over the bottom step in the basement. It was still pumping it out but the water was coming in and it was only keeping up enough so that it did not get deeper. We kept the pumps running all day.. the neighbors brought us burger king for lunch, and we just waited for the water to go down. J and Joanie brought us dinner and sat with us for a while. At 11:00 pm the water was gone, but the mess!!!!!!!!!!!

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