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Randomness
First of all, I want to say Happy Birthday to all of the November babies in my family...Mom, Amanda, James, Jeffrey, Nicole and Junior.
Next, my sister sent some pictures of the damage of her house and yard.
There are many shingles missing from her roof...but thankfully the roof itself held. It will have to be repaired or replaced. There used to be a shrubbery in front of her porch and a small palm tree in the center of the yard. The big, bushy-looking thing on the side must be part of a tree, unless there's a shrub in the yard I'm not remembering.
Here is a pic from a year and a half ago, it's the only one I could find of their backyard, the way it was...(that's my gorgeous daughter--very pregnant and still wearing a bikini!)
You can see how pretty it was. Here's a couple of pictures of how it looks now. The pictures say it all. Except for the trampoline. That was a "gift" from the neighbor's yard--it seems they didn't bother to bring it in or tie it down. Thanks to that little "gift", the power pole behind my sister's house snapped. Nice, eh? Oh, and the reason the screened porch survived is because my brother-in-law created an ingenius anchor system to tie it down to their pool deck. The screens were blown out, but the structure made it through.
So, sad. But I'm sure my brother-in-law will soon have it as gorgeous as it once was.
They still don't have power, in fact, the only ones I know who DO have power back is my son and his g/f. My sister, brother, mother and best friend are still power-less. I wish I could run an extension cord from here to there.
We heard from the EPA people of Wilson County. It seems they have not been able to get any part of the property where we want to put our future house to "perk". The land has to have a certain absorbtion level in order to put a septic tank in the ground, and apparently, of the entire 10 acre plot, there is not ONE place where it "perks" well enough to do that. This is very disheartening, especially since we had the test done two years ago and were told (and given a certificate to show) the land perked just fine. Hubby and I have decided to hire an independant soil testing scientist to come give it another try. If that fails, then we have pretty much decided to just get ten or so acres deeded over to him and to use that as collatoral to buy a "brick and mortar" house somewhere. We would prefer to build a manfactured house in the country, but if it's not possible, then we will go to plan B.
Work still sucks, but I'm trying to make the best of it.
Just to end on a cute note, here's a pic of my grandson in his Halloween costume. He was Yoda. Hee.
Now, I really must get to work on the next chapter of my HP fic. *wanders away*
Next, my sister sent some pictures of the damage of her house and yard.
There are many shingles missing from her roof...but thankfully the roof itself held. It will have to be repaired or replaced. There used to be a shrubbery in front of her porch and a small palm tree in the center of the yard. The big, bushy-looking thing on the side must be part of a tree, unless there's a shrub in the yard I'm not remembering.
Here is a pic from a year and a half ago, it's the only one I could find of their backyard, the way it was...(that's my gorgeous daughter--very pregnant and still wearing a bikini!)
You can see how pretty it was. Here's a couple of pictures of how it looks now. The pictures say it all. Except for the trampoline. That was a "gift" from the neighbor's yard--it seems they didn't bother to bring it in or tie it down. Thanks to that little "gift", the power pole behind my sister's house snapped. Nice, eh? Oh, and the reason the screened porch survived is because my brother-in-law created an ingenius anchor system to tie it down to their pool deck. The screens were blown out, but the structure made it through.
So, sad. But I'm sure my brother-in-law will soon have it as gorgeous as it once was.
They still don't have power, in fact, the only ones I know who DO have power back is my son and his g/f. My sister, brother, mother and best friend are still power-less. I wish I could run an extension cord from here to there.
We heard from the EPA people of Wilson County. It seems they have not been able to get any part of the property where we want to put our future house to "perk". The land has to have a certain absorbtion level in order to put a septic tank in the ground, and apparently, of the entire 10 acre plot, there is not ONE place where it "perks" well enough to do that. This is very disheartening, especially since we had the test done two years ago and were told (and given a certificate to show) the land perked just fine. Hubby and I have decided to hire an independant soil testing scientist to come give it another try. If that fails, then we have pretty much decided to just get ten or so acres deeded over to him and to use that as collatoral to buy a "brick and mortar" house somewhere. We would prefer to build a manfactured house in the country, but if it's not possible, then we will go to plan B.
Work still sucks, but I'm trying to make the best of it.
Just to end on a cute note, here's a pic of my grandson in his Halloween costume. He was Yoda. Hee.
Now, I really must get to work on the next chapter of my HP fic. *wanders away*