I originally posted this in November 2017. All the boxes still aren’t unpacked yet. Most of the clothes aren’t unpacked/put away yet, either. But, life goes on and we’re doing the best we can.
This next series started as a Facebook post on November 12, 2017 – 1 month ago today.
11/5/17
Rang bells early service
Water running up the hall.
Rug doctor from Giant. Grease
Tom took out rug in our bedroom.
11/13/17
Still trying to sop up water. It was wet under Tom’s desk.
11/14/17
What a fiasco – our water damage last weekend has turned into a possible big construction project with us moving out for a couple weeks or so
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I’m trying to find a place to stay – and found that our dog Mimi may cost $150 a night extra, at least the first place I looked.
Friday, they’re bringing a Pod to remove everything from 2 bedrooms+closets, Tom’s office, linen closet, one bathroom, a long hall…
That’s just for the demolition. Then comes reconstruction.
At least I don’t have to move the piano (yet).
Happy Thanksgiving! Also looking for open restaurants to eat at on Thanksgiving except for Bob Evans. LOL.
11/15
Our “plan” At the moment.
I’ve gotten 2 rooms for the hotel that Jean suggested for next week but we hope we don’t have to stay there!
I’ve ordered a blow-up mattress from amazon for the living room in case we can stay here. http://amzn.to/2zJFc9k
We’re pretty sure that the people aren’t going to be working on Thanksgiving so I’ve ordered a whole, cooked meal (except for desserts) from Wegmans. I’ll pick that up on Wednesday.
Thursday, after the Virginia Run Turkey Trot, we’ll come here, reheat the Wegmans stuff, have a “normal” Thanksgiving, then cards, piano duets, then retreat to our hotels or blow up mattress…
11/16
We have a guy from the “catastrophe team” here now taking pictures and making sketches. I sure didn’t like that term!
Water damage update November 25.
We’re going from bad to worse here
The original water was 11/12/17 Here we are nearly 2 weeks later and things have stalled.
On Wednesday of this week, our demo guys left midday (maybe wanted to start Thanksgiving early. They said we needed some sort of Industrial Hygienist to come in and test whatever is now growing in the carpet for 10 days. Then, they put plastic doors over 2 bedrooms. Like that isn’t going to make stuff grow faster.
IH 1 was on his way to Maine for Thanksgiving. IH 2 didn’t respond to voicemail until Friday (yesterday).
IH 1 recommended IH 3 who was able to come out yesterday morning and take samples to her lab – all before IH 2 got back to us.
The demo guys won’t be back until Monday. Of course, the stuff is still growing, even more behind those plastic-sealed doors.
Our Wegmans box of Thanksgiving went well, though and we’re having a great visit with son and fiance, even if the whole thing is a little weird.
This will always be a Thanksgiving to Remember.
Sometime after Thanksgiving, we moved into the Residence Inn at Fairlakes. We had 2 bedrooms, a living room with a fireplace, kitchen area. Pretty good, considering.
Mimi learned to tolerate elevators and I’d always let her choose that (further away) or close-by stairs. Being a smart dog, we usually went down on the stairs and up on the elevator.
When Christmas rolled around, we got a little tree and decorated the door.
This holiday, I got rotisserie chickens from Costco and some sides since Wegmans didn’t have anything really appealing. We heated that stuff up at our house and had a sort of Christmas there, complete with piano duets and cards before heading back to the Residence Inn.
One of the gifts we had gotten Michael and Lingyi was a gingerbread house. They decorated it and gave it back to us.
Of course, I took a keyboard over to the new place…
And, so ended 2017.
