It's another one of those busy times of the year. We have so many end of the year activities and other stuff going on that I've not been online as much!
The big thing we are dealing with right now is getting our house repaired from the sewage flood damage. The flood happened 4 weeks ago and we just got the first of the insurance money. The biggest problem was the water mitigation company being so SLOW! They also are trying to charge us for work they didn't do. Oy! I am definitely going to be leaving some poor feedback for them on Angie's List & Yelp. I told my insurance company that they should NOT recommend them for work. Now that we have some money in hand we are in the process of getting bids on the in house repairs. With the warmer weather and many others in the area that flooded, many contractors are backed up. We are patient and will be leaving on vacation in 3 weeks, so we hope to schedule work to begin right when we get back from Colorado. I am glad we are still going on vacation. It's a camping vacation, therefore low costs. If it was big expensive vacation then we might have canceled or cut back, but nearly all our campground fees are already paid. Those range from $15-$25 per night, so not expensive anyway. While we wait to get bids we are starting some of the work. This is what our downstairs background looked like a few days ago.
Last night my hubby took the wallpaper down, which was the LAST wallpaper in the house. Yea! It's gone!! He uses Downy mixed with a little water to remove the wallpaper adhesive. Works like a gem!
I've also been gardening. Here is what my garden looks like as of today.
I bought small tomato plants, but everything else is from directly sewn seeds. I am staggering the planting of green beans along the back. I will be growing Gherkin & lemon cucumbers up trellises. I will also stagger the planting of the short & sweet carrots. I am happy with how it's going so far. I'll have to leave a watering schedule for my (oldest) son when we are on vacation. He's grown out of going with us so he stays home and takes care of the house & dog. I plan on making 2 rain barrels. One for this garden and the other for the raised bed we are putting in the backyard.
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My son's last band concert of middle school was this week. He is a percussionist in both the concert & jazz bands. He's very excited about starting HS marching band soon. They start practicing next week. He's in Fiddler on the Roof this weekend with 2 shows on Saturday. He's getting confirmed on Sunday. Then next Friday is his 8th grade promotion. We are hosting a party for him this Sunday. I am in charge of the 8th grade picnic next week and am hoping for no rain!
We are going on our first camping trip of the year on Memorial Day weekend. We have so much stuff from our cleared out basement in the garage. We are going to need to move the junk over to be able to pull the trailer out. Then it will stay out as we are leaving June 6 for Colorado. It will probably stay out on the driveway until we get the work in the house done and therefore the junk out of the garage.
We have a handful of other upcoming activities that will keep me busy between now & June 6. I am going to slow down my blogging a little more! I'll keep up with my 3 linky parties!!
