Eastburn Adventures

In the continuing saga of our flood salvage mission, I just have to say that we are so blessed to have such wonderful friends. Yesterday as the crisis continued, we were able to borrow fans from my sister; Steve & Ginger, and Ginger also got fans from her parents; Robert's sister, Robin; and my parents. After we got the fans, Ginger went and brought us back lunch from Chick-fil-A - always yummy, and our friend Michael came over and helped us, and my sister and brother-in-law move all the furniture. Steve and Ginger showed up later with pizza. Not to mention the offers of help from Lisa/Lola and Angie, and all the prayers from everyone. It's so much easier to go through something like this when you're not alone.

In the midst of all the craziness of moving stuff, I'd forgotten that I'd received my package from my awesome swap partner, Stacey, for The Loopy Ewe's Spring Fling! The package had come earlier in the day, and I didn't want to open it when I was filthy, and I knew I'd need something happy to look forward to. So late last night, I finally opened it and it was filled with wonderful goodies! Chocolate - yum - I definitely needed that; cute stitch markers; mango flavored hand lotion; some local trinkets from the "hog capital of the world," Kewanne, IL (I can't wait to make those piggy sugar cookies!); a gorgeous reversible project bag (and since orange is my new favorite color, I immediately turned it to the outside!); and yarn - Cherry Tree Hill and another skein that I'm not sure of the maker - but it's wonderful! I think Stacey peeked at my stash and picked out the perfect colors for me! Thanks again, Stacey! It was so much fun to swap with you - I can't wait to hang out together at the Fling!

Today the sun was shining and life was good. We ended up getting about 200 gallons of water out of our carpet with the shop-vac, and found a professional individual who was more than fair with us (rather than charging the thousands of dollars like the big companies), and he said we shouldn't have any problems after he used his equipment on the carpet. He came back tonight and was able to pull another 100 gallons of water out of the carpet, and also sprayed to prevent mold. Now we just have to wait for it to dry the rest of the way before we can move furniture back.

Happy first day of spring, and happy birthday to Zarah!