May Photo 27

Here's the sun tea pitcher I picked out because of the design. B and i want to keep the tea flowing! But this one was leaking---in the fridge!----so I will take it back and get the one that was a dollar more and made of glass.

Day 125---Monday

J's foot figures prominantly in this photo. We are eating breakfast in the duplex before school today. Because the duplex is in south College Station, we are doing a lot of extra drivng. I have to go all the way over to the kids' schools and back here.

My boss bought a bunch of groceries for us to eat at the duplex---cereals, milk, lasagne, pizzas, coke, waters, kolaches, taquitos---we were set! I am so thankful she did that for us. :-) We had an oven to use and a fridge, so we ate really nicely while we were there.

Day 124---Sunday

I don't even know how to show you how the house looks. This first picture is what you see when you walk in my front door.

The second picture is from the back of my bedroom, looking all the way to the front of the house. This is the path the water took!

Day 121---Thursday

This was the day I cried a lot. At the slightest little thing. The guy came out and told me that the water wasn't just in my bedroom, but in the dining room and the living room. And the estimate for pulling it all out was $1600. After many phone calls and many many people helping us out, we had a place to stay for the night. A co-worker of mine offered up her kids' rooms to us and we stayed there for the night and had pizza for dinner. I stayed up and talked to her for a couple of hours.

This is actually a Friday picture! I have another friend who has a duplex which happened to be empty. She told me that she was going to let us stay there, and that everything would be okay. She had just had a pipe burst in her house and had to do the same thing I was doing---move out of the house while the house got dried out. So this is her duplex, with our stuff in it! We called it camping with carpet.

Day 120---Wednesday

This is a fan we borrowed form our church---it actually belongs to a memeber there. We at this point thought we could still dry out the carpet ourselves.

Day 119---Tuesday

This is the last picture I took before I realized water was coming into the house. I really missed the *real* picture of the day---a photo of the back of the house here! This wall is my bedroom wall. Our yard was inundated with 4 inches of rain in about an hour and a half or so today! (I had two sources in our neighborhood---4 inches!) The water had no where to go----it wasn't getting through our fence to the front where the big storm drain is. Larry took fence slats off and the water gushed through at mid-calf height. But too late. The water was in the bedroom and spread to the rest of the house.