We Are HOME!!!!!

We woke up to cloudy skies but NO rain this morning!

That made Louis Dean happy! He was all prepared to have to load up with it pouring down!

Dean brought Lucy up to us and said he felt like a traitor when he woke her up and said to come on.

He knows she loves it here!!!

He pulled our last load to the truck for us and then it was time to say our good byes.

All I have to say is - it's a good thing we have such a BIG truck because we sure do carry a ton of stuff with us where ever we go!

Can you tell Louis Dean was excited to leave the mud behind him???

I still felt a bit of a pang at leaving.

I work so much harder in my 'real' life than I do on the ranch.

*sigh* 

I'll be back.......

The drive home was not all that pleasant as the truck A/C wasn't working so it was HOT!

I was looking forward to coming in and cranking up the house air and being HOME!

The good mood did not last long......

as soon as I came in the house I noticed it smelled old and musty.

A walk around soon let me know that we had a water problem! Again.

The gutters Louis Dean had not cleaned out and that he feared would cause excess rain to back up and come inside - happened.

I spent the next 5 hours sucking up wet carpet. The rain had come in the kitchen French doors and rolled on into the den. Plus there is an area by the front door where we step down and that was soaking wet. The sewing room step down was sopping and squishy.

Poor Louis Dean was so overwhelmed he had to take a hot bath and go to bed,

I sucked up water with my Rainbow - for a very long time. I turned TV on and pumped the volume up on HIGH so I could listen to the news and programs while I vacuumed up a few gallons of water.

It could have been worse - and it HAS been worse before,

The good news is that the kitchen floor held up well and there is no buckling or damage that I can see - yet.

After LD rested he rallied himself up and cleaned out the gutters.

They were totally stopped up!!!

Our whole deck is a solid mess!!!!

Plus the rains made everything grow like crazy - including the weeds.

So we are right back where we started!! Bone tired and having to work like crazy to try and catch up with everything! The quads are coming Wednesday and we must get the decks cleaned up and the gazebo ready plus Louis Dean will need to move all the dead tree branches and limbs that fell on the sand box. I just felt so sick to my stomach over all this that I actually took some Pepto Bismol thinking it would help.

Louis Dean had to take a second hot soaking in the tub after the dirty work was done on the gutters. Then we decided to just STOP and prop up our feet while we sip a glass of wine and count our blessings.

I will be totally honest here and admit that I did a bit of ranting and crying before I got to the 'Count Your Many Blessings' part. But I DID get there.

Tomorrow is another day and I am going to take a shower and go to bed.

In light of eternity, these problems are so very small!

I am also so grateful that we were not in Waco on Sunday and that we live a fairly innocent kind of life style.

So all in all - I am going to bed with a weariness in my bones and  an aching in my muscles but with a grateful heart.

We are HOME!

And that's always a GOOD thing!