Home improvements

 Many of you have been asking about the status of my house since "the great flood of Blue Heron Circle". I am pleased to report that Randy and I are back in our house and things are pretty swell. If you don't know what happened, or you'd like a little synopsis, here you go:

Our 1 year old washing machine died at the beginning of May and we contacted Sears to send a repairman out to fix it, which they did. The repairs happened on a Thursday. Four days later, we threw in a small load of laundry, left the house to give Milly and Pip some exercise and returned home to find a soppy mess. Awesome? I think not. This is what we walked into:

There was a TON of water in the garage (so much so that it collapsed the ceiling and leaked about 4 billion gallons* of water into my convertible; of course, I had the top down...I was parked in the garage!). The water fried the circuit breaker and left us powerless (in several ways) for a several days.

Once the carpets and some walls/floor boards were removed from upstairs, we got to live with industrial fans for a few days. They are noisier than me, produce TONS of heat and seemed to droll on with this whining sound all day (I am talking about the fans, not a menopausal mother).

They also had to remove WALLS! It looked like Randy and I started to build an awesome house and then just ran out of money.

So, after being displaced for 6 weeks we came home. Randy took the fur babies to his mom's place - which I will mention is DOG PARADISE! 5+ fenced in, wooded acres for running and playing, treats all the time, other dogs to play with...it was a sad transition home - picture to come. I stayed at the Homewood Suites, made some new friends, had dinner cooked for me 4 nights a week and was close to shopping. Oh, I had a terrible time...  : )

Anyway, we came home to this: PERFECTION! If you want the name of our contractor, let me know. They were prompt, courteous and did a very good and clean job. 

New wood floors...more brown than the old floor (old, hmm, not really...it was laid down in 2008).

Painted ceiling and new light fixture (fixture compliments of my EE hubby). I have better pictures of the completed room that I will put up soon - you know, like when I took a pic AFTER I finished painting the walls...

But my most favorite thing of all: the super, duper amazing, awesome, wonderful, thick, rich, beautiful carpet we got installed. I convinced Randy to upgrade. THANK GOD! It was the best idea ever. And we went a lot darker with the carpet color: good for hiding dirt, doggie hair and crumbs for Cheetos.

You may be asking yourself, "why did the machine crap out on you like that?" or "what caused the water damage?". The answer is simple: when the repairman reattached the hose to the machine upon completion of the repairs, he never clamped the hose back on...SOOOO...a few wiggles, a few washes and BOOM...1,000 gallons of water everywhere. And the unit was upstairs. When building a house, even though your 'smart' side takes over and is like, "I'm lazy as hell...put that machine upstairs!", think twice!!! 

We are glad to be home, but I sure miss the Homewood Suites and all my friends there. If you need a place to crash while your house is flooded, or you just need to get away from your spouse or snot-nosed kids for a while, check them out.