Part 6 of the "Flooded House"

(Yet another reminder photo)

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Hi There..........Sweet Friends,

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So how in the world are you doing today???

Fine,  I hope!

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 I am having a good day,  but one of those

clumsy,  dumb things happening days,  like I came in off

the porch to refill my kitty's water bowl,  but still had my

jammies on,  so when I walked around the counter to go

back out,  the cabinet knob decided to play a lil trick on me...

It grabbed my robe and jerked me back and threw

water everywhere!!  And I thought this is ridiculous! lol

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And a while letter I had another stupid thing like that

happen while in the kitchen and more water everywhere,

So guess today is my water torture day!!

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Well,  it reminded me I need to get on with the rest of

 my  "Flooded House" story,  so maybe that was the point.

  I promised my sister-in-law I would not touch her camera today.

However,  I have been tempted a few times but then I remembered

 my "smushed faced Camera" from Miss Butterfingers a few

months back,  and the temptation quickly went away!!  lol

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So on with my Story........................

After I posted the last time and reread it,  to my dismay I had

left out the most important part of the story.  Think I got

interrupted by a phone call and totally forgot to put it in.

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Anyway,  when the man came to put the carpeting in ,

he had to of course,  take up the old carpeting and padding,

 and when he did we discovered that there was mildew all in the

 padding underneath where our bed was sitting,  so the water had

 wicked it's way all the way over there.

 So guess who knew there was mildew under our bed,  certainly not us!!

 But the Lord knew and he saw to it that they decided to recarpet

 that room and the closet as well,  which probably also had mildew cause the

water had run under the kitchen cabinets and into our walk in closet too.

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Well,  we are now up to the end of October 2001,  Oct. 23rd to be

exact,  and the new Contractor finally started in on our kitchen.

We felt a lil like the movie ET.  Remember how they came in and

put up all those plastic partitions in their house because of ET!

They did the same thing between our kitchen and family room,

Thankfully,  the dust is just amazing and the sawdust once they

start having to tear out  the cabinets and saw anything.

 The Contractor did a phenomenal job!!!  In just 4 days he was

finished.  He knew what we had already been through with the

other Contractor,  plus the lil altercation we had with him as

well,  so think he really went out of his way to do that!!  It

was sooooooooo appreciated.  And again he did an amazing

job as you will see below,  course, yall have already seen

pics of my kitchen before but here is one taken from the

Family room.

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It didn't quite look like this yet, cause we still had the old floor,

cause they had to stop it right where the breakfast nook is,

and we still had the old wallpaper up. The kitchen did not have

 this table,  we had a square drop  leaf oak table,  didn't have that

goose neck faucet then either, and the kitchen counters were also

 arranged differently......

But even tho,  it was gorgeous to us!!.

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The next Wed. on Oct. 31st,  we got our kitchen floors.

We were way more normal that we had been in months,

and we were happy, happy campers,  and I was in love

with my new kitchen,  and couldn't wait to see it with

my new wallpaper up!!  and gussied up the way I

wanted it,  so we still had more things to wait out.

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We were at a stand still for a few weeks then on

Nov 19th,  they finally came to put up the kitchen

 wallpaper for us.  That was such a blessing cause we

were tired from working in the house so much with

painting, and moving stuff,  and reoiling the baseboards.

The man that did our wallpaper did a phenomenal

job as well,  he and his sister-in-law where both so

nice.  We found out that he probably did our original

wallpaper when we bought the house,  cause he used

to work for our builder back then.  I have these vertical

blinds in my kitchen that I just slide the wallpaper in,

so I wanted to do that again,  cause I really like it

and it is sort of unique.  The wallpaper man was

so enthused over them,  he cut all the wallpaper for

me,  so all I had to do was put it in,  but the condition

was I had to have it done by the time he came

back to wallpaper the bathroom.  That was so very

nice of him,  above and beyond I would say!

We all had some very nice chats about the Lord too!

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The next morning our Contractor came back to

replace our bathroom vanity because it too was

water damaged.

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The day after,  we left to go to Gainesville for

Thanksgiving with our friends.  We told them we

had our kitchen back,  but they said they wanted

us to come they were all looking forward to it,

as were we,  of course.

I have to say it was a lil hard to leave because

we finally almost had our nest back together,

but it was a Joy to come home to!!

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Then on Dec. 14th,  they came back and did our

bathroom wallpaper,  and got to see the blinds

with the wallpaper in them,  and he thought

that was soooo neat!!  He did a great job

on the bathroom wallpaper as well.

We felt like kids in a candy shoppe,  and all

we could think of was that scripture that says

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"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly

 above all that we ask or think, according to the power

 that worketh in us"

Ephesians 3:20

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I had asked,  he had heard and done exceedingly,

abundantly more than I could have ever dreamed.

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This was all an early Christmas Present,  I don't think

I have every felt so blessed by the Lord,  or so loved,

because He cared so much about what I cared about!

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We had a Wonderful Christmas,  and unbeknowst to us

we had another surprise coming,  but this time it was

not what you would classify as a good one!

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I will leave you there dear ones,  and hopefully,

be able to finish up the story next time.

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Hope you have a wonderful evening.

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I had a half pot of Kale leftover,  so I am adding some

potatoes and chicken broth to it to make

Kale and Potato Soup,  am also making roasted

parsnips and carrots,  and waldorf salad,  and ham filets.

Am I making you hungry........I am making myself hungry,

I can hardly wait!!  Yum Yum!!

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Thanks for stopping in,

Blessings and Hugs,

Nellie