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Our Blue Roof is ON!! The roofers finished the project the day after Christmas. What a gift! Let the soft rains come again!
On a bluer note, Kerry is looking for a job these days. And as so many wives will tell you, this often leads to depression (throughout the family) of some degree. Life gets hard(er). Sometimes, this really becomes a time of testing. As in our case, other things can "happen" to add a little more stress to your already stressful life.
Blue sparks. Our 80+ year old farmhouse has been slowly going through some facelifts. (Accent on "slowly".) How slowly? EXPENSIVELY slowly... (fencing, repairing pipes & plumbing, repairing tiling, repairing flooring, stripping very old wallpaper, stripping paint, replacing a water heater, and most recently... after trying to repair it first - putting on a new roof.) These projects have been spaced out through the 4 1/2 years we've lived here. Now, recently, another monster raised it's blue, ugly head. I bet if you look over the above list, you can figure out which monster this one is. Yep, electricity - wiring. In the last month, we started noticing lights that would flicker. Then, recently, breakers going off. And, last week, sparks coming from the breaker box. Kerry knows about wiring, and quickly disconnected the troublesome breakers. A few days later, another breaker began sparking. So, we're running on only three of 7-8 breakers. We've had an electrician come out to inspect the situation. Not only do we have to get a new box, but the entire house needs re-wiring-SOON! ($$$) NOT the kind of news a jobless man wants to hear. I have no idea what our immediate plans are. We need to move out of the house until repairs can be made - just because it's not safe. We DO have both sets of parents living within an hour of here. However, you know what it's like moving a family of eight into someone else's home for an unknown amount of time... Not to mention returning every day to take care of all the animals that will remain at home.
So, we sigh and roll up our sleeves once more.
"After all, tomorrow is another day!"
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