It was one of the stranger game nights. Friday evening our normal host texted to see if anyone else could host. They had been having real issues at their home/store with water pipes having leaked and being broken in several places. We could still go, but we could not use the bathroom. So I checked with Rob and we volunteered to have everyone here.
On Saturday, our host texted me to see if we had a working dishwasher. They had several days of unwashed dishes and would like to get them cleaned up. I told her... sure, bring them over. Then I also told her that if she wanted to bring bath items, that she and her family were welcome to freshen up. She and her teenage daughter took us up on the offer and showered before heading home.
Upon arrival at our house, the other family also had suffered burst pipes at their house and were without water. I have also been listening to the local scanner and hearing many burst pipes scenarios. When you are dealing with sub-zero temperatures, you have to make sure that your house, your heating systems, and water systems are in the best shape possible. And this has been a record-breaking stretch of sub-zero temps, so many places are just not coping well in the weather.
Sunday was a quiet day. Rob and Kate slept and kept their cold germs at home. I chilled and watched TV. NASCAR is getting ready to start (this Sunday is the Daytona 500!) so I watched the prep for that event.
I also got started watching "Next In Fashion", a new series on Netflix. Rob and Kate had been watching, so I started after the Sunday race. It only has 10 or 11 episodes and is a reality show dealing with fashion design and sewing. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I stayed up until 1:30 AM Monday before turning it off and finished the series Monday morning.
I saw Rob come into the house early Monday morning. I thought he had forgotten something that he needed for work. When I finally got moving, I spent most of the day on my level, thinking that I was alone. You can imagine how surprised I was when Rob came down the stairs around 2 PM to say 'hi'. Turns out that Kate had dropped him off. He was in full-blown 'sick' mode and had just gone to his room and fallen asleep. He and Kate had Tai Chi Monday night, so Kate came after work and picked him up, they went to Tai Chi and then she took him home.
Tuesday Rob returned to the infirmary. I, at least, knew that he was in the house this time. I just puttered around in the lower level. I did wash their sheets to try to get rid of germs in the house. He was working on his computer. His sore throat was getting less hurtful but his snotting and coughing were not giving up. He picked Kate up after work and headed home. Wednesday he had hoped to be well enough to go to work, but alas, he returned to the Rudewick Infirmary. The sore throat was gone and he had a tad more energy, so I think the worst is over. We had hung two coat racks in the landing on Tuesday and Wednesday we did some work in the garage to get ready for the weekend.
Earlier in the week, I got an email from my sewing group. They had changed the schedule from what I had in my calendar. We were going to be meeting Thursday and Friday of this week and NOT next week. Then we have two days at the end of the month. So I packed up my Janome and the parts and pieces of a Valentine's Heart quilt top to spend two glorious days sewing with the ladies at St Raphael's Quilting group. I received a text from Tammy asking me to pick her up if I could. Her husband's truck would not start (it was 35 below at 9:00 AM today) so he had to take her car for a class he was teaching at Eielson Air Force base at 8:00 AM. So I stopped there and picked her up. Her hubby would pick her up in the afternoon. I worked on the heart quilt, using all charm squares, all day. I should finish the flimsy finished tomorrow.
Kate is heading to California tonight. She will be spending a couple of days with her parents and her brother and his wife before heading to San Diego for a week. Rob will be staying here over the weekend and we are going to be working in the boxes that remain in the garage.
This is the pile of broken-down boxes from everything that I have opened and found homes for thus far. It is not all of them as I have taken a few to the transfer station. Saturday we will be loading them in the back of our two cars and taking them to the recycling center. They are just getting in the way.
This right outside my bedroom door. You can see my car just beyond the pile. They are stacked from the floor and as high as they can go without falling.
The appliance is the trash compactor from my kitchen. The built-in one in the kitchen does not work, so we have this one plugged to compact trash, should we need to.
The pile is two piles. It is a lot of boxes.
It will be nice to have them gone!!!
I turned the other way from the picture above. These are some of the boxes that remain to be opened. The majority of these are sewing projects and fabric. There is probably one more kitchen box, a couple of bathroom boxes but the majority is from my sewing stuff in the basement.
This is from the other side of my car at the front of the garage. I have a small space for the lawnmower and the snowblower (under the packing blanket). Some craft stuff has already gotten to shelves, but it all needs to be sorted and consolidated.
This is taken through from the snowblower. It is packed solid.
This close to the side door on the garage. We had to make room in this corner when they delivered the generator. But it hardly made a dent.
I held the camera up so you could see that some of the boxes go almost to the ceiling.
Yes, we have a lot to do. Rob and I hope to make a nice dent in this Saturday and Sunday. We will also have to take time to check in on the Daytona 500. Nice to have NASCAR back on a schedule!
Have a great weekend and I will let you know how well or not so well we did in getting things unboxed.
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