Life!

Well I am ready to return to the HITW...where the neighbors on the hill are a bit friendlier...Arrived home the house was not to bad accept the carpets...then the sewer backed up all over my basement, while I had four babies in the house who are all potty trained!...three women on the monthly and a major need for an out house. Not to mention the six loads of laundry that needed done. Six inches of water in my basement, flowing from any drain down there...thanks to Miguel and Britt who cleaned the floating turds and paper as well as pumped and dumped all the water...while standing in toilet water for three hours...now that is a good boy friend. A call to Eric at work informed him that he needed to come home or I was packing and going south again brought him running with Uncle John on his tail...hehe...the purchase of a balloon sort of device that hooks to the garden hose did not pop this plug, but it did provide a half hour of fun while we walked around the yard with our ears to the ground listening to the hum coming from the pipes under us. A snake was rented and a couple "white mice" pulled from the plug. This opened it enough to allow the Ninja turtle and bouncy balls to flow out...Gotta love the little kids...lol. With that fixed it was time to start on the carpets...two days spent scrubbing and sucking carpets....I had to do the up stairs too...did not want to waste the rental fee for just the down stairs... So now the laundry is done...the floors clean...and the toilets all flush for the first time since we moved in...ahhhhh!