September 2, 2010

Update

One hindrance after another.  We’ve had multiple power outages with one lasting four days.  We had to get a new computer since the other one was destroyed by water.  We’ve been trying to get ready for school, and taking care of the dog is much more involved now.

This is all that remains of our shade/destruction tree.

Something for our spare time…

and our other spare time…

This is where the tree was uprooted in the backyard.  Looks pretty good now.  We are hoping to plant a garden here next spring.  Lack of sunlight is no longer a legitimate excuse.

Must have found some of that spare time.

Isn’t everyone supposed to help?

This is where Cookie stayed for a few weeks.  It only lasted until she felt good enough to jump the gates, or plow them over.  Let’s just say it’s been fun. We have physical therapy stretches 2-3 times a day, and for the first two weeks she couldn’t do anything but go out to use the bathroom.  We are now able to do walks morning and night increasing by 5 minutes each week.  Every little bit helps.

This was right after the painter left.

Trying to find something fun to do before school starts again.

The boys are in the back.

Whee e!

Relax for a bit.

August 5, 2010

Still a flurry of activity and goings on:

Yesterday, the new gutters were installed…

and the inside walls have been patched.

Today, some trees are coming down…

and working behind a shroud of secrecy SOMETHING NEFARIOUS is happening in our hallway…

or it’s getting repainted. One of the two.

August 2, 2010

So, the roof has been repaired, new shingles are up, and the nasty insulation has been cleaned out of the attic.

So at this point, we are just waiting on gutters, drywall, and insulation and hopefully we can get things back to normal.

They are coming to do the drywall tomorrow. Gutters are hopefully soon. We don’t have a date yet for the insulation, but hopefully it’s soon cause it’s gonna be another hot and humid week this week.

Party time!

July 30, 2010

So it begins…

July 29, 2010

We’ve got new shingles delivered and ready to go up tomorrow morning, and…

A NEW CAR!

So, we didn’t stray much from the formula. I’m sure nothing will ever happen to our new car if we keep it parked there… right?!?

we’re parking it in the garage

So, we needed to get the car out of the driveway for the tree removal and the delivery of the shingles coming today.

I drove the car down the driveway and parked it in the street with no problems… I think it’s a mistake to completely total this car when there’s so much life left in her!

Oh well. We did end up buying a new car last night and are going to pick it up this afternoon… we’ll leave the online unveiling until then. Bet you can’t guess what vehicle we got ;)

July 27, 2010

I am so glad that we didn’t end up putting insulation in the attic.

So, Sunday the 25th we were preparing to have my birthday dinner (since on the 24th we enjoyed a delicious barbecue at the church for Pioneer Day) when all of the sudden a storm was upon us. Rain, gale force winds, tornadoes maybe? We weren’t sure. But what we were sure of was the tremendous crash that hit our house. We rushed upstairs to check on the damage… and there was some. For example:

Just a little water coming into the office. Fortunately the computer was doing a great job of trying to block the water from pouring straight onto the floor.

Another limb skewered our hallway a bit, so we climbed up into the attic to see if we could remove the limbs and start plugging the holes to keep the rain from coming in.

It was a bit worse than we thought, but as we started pushing limbs out of the way, the rain stopped. The whole storm lasted for maybe 15 or 20 minutes.

So, we went outside to check out the aftermath.

Yup, that’s our car…

The limb crushed our car and knocked down our power lines. That was fine because the storm knocked out power to most of the region out here, so we didn’t really need those power lines anyways. Apparently, about 400,000 homes were without power from this storm.

The insurance adjuster today said that our car was the worst hit that he’d seen, so that means we WIN!

Anyhow, we had some limbs fall in the back yard also. Cracked a few windows, ripped up the gutters, etc.

And a little tree fell over into our neighbor’s back yard.

We had a bunch of people from church show up and help us get things cleaned up from the roof. All in all we had 10 punctures in the roof.

With everyone’s help we got things off the roof and the car pretty quickly

So yeah, that was a crazy storm. We’ve already contacted our insurance company and they’ve been great so far getting the ball rolling on the repairs. We’ve had lots of people offer to help and we’re getting things back together again. The restoration work is already moving.

The insurance company sent out emergency roof patching to patch over the holes in our roof. They sent out Flood Control to assess the water damage and they have started work on drying us out.

We have people coming to repair the roof which should be done by Friday. The inside will take a bit longer. We should know what we’ll get from the damage to our car in another day or so.

Anyhow, the important thing is that everyone is safe, that we’re doing as well as can be expected considering the circumstances. Hopefully, things will be back to normal as quickly as possible.

We’ll post more pictures of the process as they happen!

July 26, 2010

The Aftermath

More pics to come…

July 22, 2010

What Big Teeth You Have…

Silly kids-silly dog

I can’t help but laugh.

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