EXCITING TIMES!! HAPPY HAPPY!!

Well its been a crazy exhausting exciting couple of days.  The trip up was a white knuckler.  It snowed and slushed and blew.  My poor little car wasn't happy.  But we made it!  I got my keys from Kathy's place and went straight up to the house.  I couldn't wait to see it!

And….it was different than what was in my head.  It was smaller (which suits me just fine) and the wall paint was worse!  Half the upstairs is pukey gold and the other half is either poop brown or burgandy (shovel list).  I unloaded tables, chairs, radio, dogs etc…and walked and walked around the whole place.  The downstairs is huge and weird.  Lots of rooms..family room (big) rec room, hobby room (huge with lots and lots of storage…my new 'garage'), windowless bedroom, freezer room etc..  there is also big beautiful double garage.

Aryn arrived around ten and set to work painting my purple room.  I sat in a chair and we visited whilst she painted.  And..she got the whole room done beautifully, two coats and all.  It looks spectacular.

Jocelyn and Ainsley came up and we visited and when Craig came I gave him the tour and Lo and Behold!! the basement was flooded and the ceiling was caving in and there was painty water everywhere.  At first we kind of panicked, trying to figure out how to clean up the water with nothing and then there is that moment…you just know, its going to be alright because this just became an insurance claim and THEY can do all the work!

So Aryn and I got on the laptops and found the info we needed and got hold of the right peeps and before you could say Bob's your uncle two guys and tools and fans and great attitudes showed up.  They ripped out all the necessary gyprock and ceiling stuff, set up six big fans, mopped and cleaned and finally around 9 they went along their way.  I have just called a plumber (its ten Tue. morning right now) and they will be here tomorrow morning at ten.  And the insurance contractors will be back on Thursday to make it all right again.  Just a little blip and all will be well.  My deductible isn't too horrible either.

Now I am sitting at one of the folding tables in beautiful sunshine and clear skies.  I am in my kitchen.  I will take a picture of what I am looking at and post it down below.

Last night both Aryn and I were so painfully hungry by the time the guys left.  It was awful.  The second they left we hopped into our cars and dashed down to Original Joe's (which is most conveniently located right at the bottom the hill here) and we ate and we ate till we felt awful.  Creamed broccoli and cheese soup, humus and pita, calamari, chopped salad.  Sooooo full.  Had a good night at Kathy's.  Monte arrived late and slept there too.  Now he is getting us breakfast and febreeze for the stinkiest truck ever (someone spilled milk in there a few months ago…bad news that) and Aryn is picking up little cans of sample grey paint. I am going to choose one to use everywhere in my house.  yipppeee!!!  So excited!!!

When the place gets cleaned up I will take pics and post them here.  Right now I am going to go do some mugs and make coffee and clean the gyprock off the floor and walls that the men dropped while taking out all the old stuff.  TTYL

SITTING AT MY KITCHEN TABLE