Disasters Abound

I spent all day Saturday cleaning like a woman posessed. Most of the cleaning I did was outside. Our yard was in desperate need of weeding, mowing, sweeping, etc....As I mentioned in my meme on Friday, one way I am wierd is that I have never mowed a lawn. Scratch that off of my wierd things list because Saturday, I mowed our lawn. I weeded our garden. I swept up old, dusty musty leaves that were clumped up along side the house and the fence. I vacuumed, I dusted and did countless loads of dishes.

Yesterday afternoon, I was in the process of doing a load of laundry. Minutes after I started the washer, I walked past the laundry room and water was creeping out from under the door and when I opened the door it was like a flood gate had opened and water poured out of the laundry room and into the entry way of the house. I screamed for my husband who was asleep on the couch and we both reverted into panic mode. The water was going into the hall closet, in the bathroom, all over the clothes that were waiting to be washed in the laundry room (which was quite a large amount.) There were shoes sitting on the floor that were starting to get soaked. And the girls just thought it was a whole lot of fun to have a huge puddle of water in our house. (Luckily, the entry way is all tile, however it was starting to creep towards the carpet towards the downstairs family room). We grabbed mops, buckets, any towels we could find (clean or dirty) to get control of the situation. We finally got most of it soaked up, however my nicely cleaned yard was now cluttered with shoes, clothes, dirty, wet towels and anything and everything that had become a victim of the flood.

Once the situation was "under control" (or as under control as we could get it) I took the girls up to my sister-in-laws apartment to go swimming which we had already promised them before the big mess. Mike stayed back to continue working on the mess. While he was out and about picking up a squeegie (sp?) and some other things to finish cleaning up the mess, he was driving down one of the main roads in town which is a mere mile from our home. He noticed cop cars everywhere, news vans, yellow police tape and people everywhere around one of the local liquor stores and bars. He parked the truck and went over to where all the action was happening to try to find out what was going on. He talked to one of the news camera men and found out that some kids had been riding their bikes in the fields behind the liquor store and had come across a dead body laying in the irrigation ditch. Now, we live in a town of about 65,000-70,000. Not a huge town, but definitely not Mayberry R.F.D. Murders and bodies being found simply do not happen around here.....which is a good thing. Apparently the body had been there for awhile and was just happened upon by these poor kids. Not much is known about the situation at this point, but while Mike was hanging around, the news people asked if he would like to be interviewed for the news to speak as a member of the community. So, my husband was on the news last night. The article is here, however there is no clip of hubs on the news. Bummer.

After he did the whole news thing, he went over to his friends' house who is out of town to check on his house (which he asked him to do while he was gone). When he was over there, he heard what sounded like a cat in pain. He looked around and eventually found a cat by the wheel of a car whose leg was swollen up to twice its size and had a hole in his leg that was oozing blood. He wasn't quite sure what he should do so he knocked on neighbors' doors and finally found someone who knew the cat and left the cat in the neighbor's care to get to the vet.

Today, I am dealing with the aftermath of the flood, hauling load after load after load of laundry down to my parents' house to get cleaned, and trying to locate my landlord on Memorial Day to come deal with my massive plumbing issues (because our toilets keep backing up and our downstairs shower is regurgitating nasty looking brown water....). All the while trying to play soccer, ponies, Care Bears or whatever else my little girls' hearts desire on Mommy's day off of work.

Fun times, I tell you. Memorial Day 2007 rocks!!