Friends, Cat Love, Box, Socks, Lady and CRAP

 Last night I met a friend, Nelta 

(dark hair) and some of her

other friends for dinner. 

I had a trifold bowl I was giving 

to her and she had something for me.

You know there used to be a 

time that I never would have 

left the house with my

hair pulled back and 

no makeup....

That was many, many

years ago....MANY!

And I would never have put

a pic of me with no makeup

on the internet.....

oh wait. there was not 

internet. 

haha

I think this little, gray 

ball of fur loves 

her mom. 

Looks like Lily fits, so

she sits!!!

Misty don't box sit so 

she it trying to figure

out exactly what 

Lily is doing.

I have the sweetest friends, 

even ones I only know via

the internet. I met Beneta 

via Clubmom, a internet site

that used to exist, where moms

post pics daily. When Clubmom

shut down, we all moved to FB. 

But even with that, I got this

in the mail the other day.

Oh, that was so sweet!

Okay, so the packing got 

delayed. Well, it is pretty much 

all done but there are those 

odds and ends that you just can't 

pack. Like long shelves that go

on the wall. Curtain rods, and 

paintings. The thought was that

I would take the paintings, TVs and

computers to Ambers.  

Here is my lady painting, standing

up i the living room floor

ready to move on.

But why the delay or derailment?

Tuesday afternoon, I went and had

lunch with my oldest brother 

and sister in law. They were coming

back to the house and pick up 

the bakers rack that was moms that

Ray wanted. I had noticed water 

around the garage door when I 

left, but we had had some rain

so I thought that spot just had not

dried up.

When I got home and opened the garage

door, there was a stream of water

coming from the back.....

the hot water heater had a leak!!

WHAT THE HELL!!!

One week from closing...

one week.

This cost me 557 bucks. My youngest

brother, who was home sick 

came over to remove the old one,

and replace it. 

Course, nothing can be easy.

The value at the bottom that

you attach a hose to and drain

the hot water heater, was clogged

with partials, sedment..

CRAP!!

That value sits close to the floor,

sticking something in it to 

unclog it would have shot 50 gallons

of water everywhere. 

We tried, it was too heavy to 

get on the two wheeler to 

move out. 

CRAP!!

We removed a release value at the 

top, and leaned the hot water 

heater over, filling buckets, dumping

and repeating till we have it empty 

enough to get on the two wheeler 

where we took to the drive way and

laid it on its side to drain. 

Mark went and got another one

and then installed it.

BUT the damage was 

done. Nothing in the basement

or garage was ruined, I had 

moved most of that to storage.

But, the downstairs BR is on 

the other side of the basement where the 

hot water heater is. Water was 

all in the BR and it spilled

out to the den. 

On the new carpet. The entire

room was floating in water basically.

CRAP!!!!

I went to Lowe's and rented a 

carpet cleaner to soak up 

that water. I was down there for an 

hour and half sucking yesterday. 

I have five fans going. The carpet is 

still so wet. Not so wet that when 

you step on it, water bubbles up but

still wet. I tried sucking up more

water last night but nothing was

going in the unit, so its a matter

of just drying. 

Going to try sucking more this 

morn and see if I can get

more. I closed the window

last night cause its close to the

ground and I worried about

someone breaking in so I closed

it. But I will open it back up today, and 

run fans for the next few days.

WHY? 

I am not a bad person, 

why? This year has totally 

been like being in hello.

Anyway, finishing my coffee and 

off to the den to 

SUCK.

Course you can't tell anything happened

in the basement and garage, 

all dry cause there is no carpet to 

suck it up and hold on to it.

Course Amber asked,

"you think this is granny,

letting you know she

is mad you are selling?"

Pam