Drama. What fun would life be without it?
A big part of our move was preparing the old Cleveland house for sale. We spent countless hours washing walls, fixing holes, painting, repairing etc, etc. After several weeks of work, we had the Cleveland house in beautiful shape! We hired a real estate agent and he came and took pictures and listed the house. To help skew things in our favor, we also enlisted in the help of St. Joseph, burying him in our front garden per our pastor’s instructions.
A couple weeks past. I visited the house several times a week just to keep an eye on things, take out the trash, mow the lawn. Then, one day I parked in the driveway and noticed something funny. “What the heck is that?” I thought, noticing the siding on the house. I thought our bad neighbors sprayed something on the house.
I though little more of it other than how I would need to clean it off and went inside…
Our carefully cleaned house for sale was ruined! It was raining in the kitchen. I allowed myself just enough time to expel some expletives then ran upstairs. The tub supply had sprung a leak. I shut it off and ran to the basement to shut it off there too, just in case. It was raining in the basement, too
This was not good.
Cell phone. “Hello, Carol? Call the insurance company. We can’t fix this one ourselves.”
I immediately set about trying to save what I could. It was a fools errand, but I had to try.
The entire kitchen ceiling eventually wound up on the floor. The floor itself, buckled pretty badly, 1/2″ plus. The counter top swelled and warped. The window wouldn’t open. The cabinets were popping apart before my eyes. The electrical circuit breakers popped. The dishwasher was filled with sludge. Tiles and paint were popping off the walls. There was a water fall down the basement stairs. The rooms in the basement were an inch deep in water. The upstairs bathroom floor was buckled as well. This was not a good day.
The next day it looked like this…
It was shocking to see how it was all just gone.
Everything was removed.
We hired a general contractor to manage all the destruction and construction crews. We had to pick out new cabinets, counter, lighting, tile, paint, carpet…everything. Lots of decisions.
Eventually it all came together.
