Good-bye Family, Hello Back Room

         As I had mentioned in prior posts we had wanted to redo our flooring and add a back room to the house.  Roland had taken time off work the last week of April as we believed that when the floors would be done.  That was the initial plan.  However the product we ordered had to be shipped – which added nearly another month before the floors were started.

Unfortunately it hasn’t been finished.  I don’t know if the error was with shipping product or inaccurate measuring so the correct amount of product had not been ordered to begin with or what exactly happened.  But we are still waiting for flooring.  The kitchen isn’t finished and the bathrooms have not been started.  The bathrooms were what I had been concerned about the most – particularly the master bathroom which I know has water damage.

We had hired someone local out of Winston.  I was impressed with him and do like his work.  Roland seems to want to sue as he is in breach of contract that Roland was insistent that be drawn up. True, the floor hasn’t been completed but we have not paid the full amount of cost so what exactly are we suing for?  So this guy will return to complete the job and may not be friendly toward us because we took him to court?  I don’t want to take him to court.

We’ve prayed and will continue praying about our decisions.  Meanwhile we have been told that he will be back in July to finish our floors at no additional cost for the material.  And now that Randy and his clan have gone back to their house in Utah, another individual has shown up to start on our back room which we could have used last week while the family was here so that they would have a bit more room and Jenna would have been able to use her room.

I felt bad that we were not able to give them their own room as they had for us when we had gone to New York.  We all had more space to move around in.  But then again their entire house was at least 3 to 5 times bigger than ours.  I don’t know what the size of their current house is.  I do know Randy wants us to visit.  But I suspect it will be a while.  We spent quite a bit during their stay and now the back room.  I really don’t like borrowing money but at the same time have wanted new flooring and a back room since we moved in over five years ago.

So that’s today’s post.  Worth the wait, right?

Another Post with Free Thought and Weather

          I like the sound of rain

          Good Thing as it

          has rained for most of

          this month

         

          We have skylights in

          our front room and

          our bedroom and

          sometimes the rain wakes me

          after I have fallen

          asleep

          I know it's wet and cold

          outside

          but every time it rains while

          I am inside

          I will get really hot

          I don't know why

          I usually sleep without

          a blanket or sheet except

          for around my toes

          My feet are always cold

          and thus I wear socks all

          the time

          I always open windows in

          whatever room I'm in

          Roland closes the windows. He

          doesn't like being cold.

          Heat escapes his body.

          Cuddling up next to him is like

          snuggling with a furnace.

          He likes to cuddle

          while we sleep.

          I don't like to cuddle

          when I'm trying to sleep, especially    

          when I'm trying to stay cool

          and I have these octopus arms all

          over me.  It's like

          having ten blankets on top of me while

          in the desert with the blazing

          sun

          Our son Tony is

          always cold

          He has no meat on

          his bones.

          I've never snuggled with

          him, but I have

          hugged him before.

          I think I could touch

          each of my elbows as

          I'm hugging him.

          He is that skinny.

          I don't know why

          as he eats like a horse

          He eats more

          than the rest of our family

          put together.

          I think eating makes him

          thinner.  That's not fair!

          At least that's how it

          used to be.

          I don't know how

          it is now.

          I know that his wife

          Rochelle is always hot

          She might not use blankets

          either.

          Tony once accused Roland

          and I of being penguins

          I know he would be cold

          in our house right now

          At least Roland is soft and

          padded

          Cuddling up with Tony must

          be like cuddling with a

          skeleton -

          all bony and hard

          I don't know if Rochelle

          picks up extra heat from him or

          not

          When he was a boy and

          we went to the beach

          I took lots of pictures

          his brothers made fun of his

          bony format.  Said he

          could pose as a poster child     

          for one who is hungry.

          They said he looked deformed.

          He's not

          He is thin.

          He says he likes the rain.

          I don't know why.

          I like it.