Monday, March 29, 2010

"Big Mess" house

That's what we've always called the river house when we talk to our kids about it. Violet seems to be processing the information very accurately though. She talks about how the house got flooded, the water made a mess, and it the inside had to get torn apart. She some times still calls it "home" when we pull up there to look at it or do something there. The other day we were at Gateway Park and a little tiny house that had gotten flooded was in the process of being torn down by a big piece of machinery. Violet wanted our house to be torn down in the same fashion as this one they were watching being torn to the ground. Dave went over there today to open up some windows and air it out since cleaning the basement after the last flood a couple weeks ago. He noticed that two of the basement windows had been broken, and it had to have happened yesterday evening, because the windows weren't broken when he was there cleaning it out yesterday afternoon. That rattles us a little. Who would want to either vandalize the house or break in??? A lot of work needs to be done to that property. I want to host a cleaning party or something...the entire driveway needs to be power-washed, sticks and leaves need to be picked up all over the property, and the yard just needs some TLC. Since we plan to put it on the market and sell it after it gets elevated this week or next, we both want it looking its best.

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