Friday August 21, 2009

Today is a monumental day! I have gas (well really butane) so my stove works and I am going to have hot water. I am going to make grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch, which is right now so I’ll get back to you after lunch! I have a gas stove with 4 burners and then a griddle in the middle and I put our grilled cheese sandwiches on the griddle and promptly burned the back one a little but they were good.

I putz around for a bit this afternoon and got a phone call from Ross, he had gone over to John and Christies to see if he got any e-mail from the UPS guys) telling me that my daughter Pam just got engaged to be married to Derek! Congratulations to both of you, I am sooooooo happy, I can’t wait to hug you both!

Oh my, my heart is just so happy it’s hard to get back to reality! Our handyman is now gone until the pool install then November sometime to finish painting the roof with a rubber paint cause he painted part of it yesterday and a lot of it got washed off the roof when it rained last night. Since our roof is flat there are 3 downspouts, one on the front and 2 on the back that rinses away any of the water that accumulates on the roof. If you look at my rain pictures you will see a stream of water, which is the water coming off the roof. When it rained last night our water was white because the paint needed 24 hours to cure!

I finally got a hold of Lily today; she is coming tomorrow to clean, yeah, I thought I might have to clean the bathrooms, yuck! The animals are still really shedding so we are still getting fluff balls everywhere, we vacuum every day. Ross got back from John’s with my shelves, Juan said we can put them in ourselves; all we need to do is screw them in. We went to put them in and they made 2 the same, they should have been opposite each other, so back they go to Juan’s, to make it right, he is coming on Monday to fix the doors on my china cabinet, the left one needs a bit shaved off the top and the right one needs a bit shaved off the bottom.

I had to leave you for a bit, it is still really, really raining outside and I had to check on the water level of the sump, another couple of inches and I will have to close the big back door to keep the rain out of the house! Handyman put silicone around all our skylights this afternoon and they are all leaking, the only thing he fixed that isn’t leaking is our bedroom window, go figure. Oh well, rainy season doesn’t last forever and a little rain never killed anyone!

Ross has gone to his meeting but we might do some interneting later, we’ll see. If not you won’t get this until tomorrow, which is ok cause I am really trying to be a day behind so I don’t feel pressured to get this done by the time we can find internet. Once we are hooked up it will be fine.

So congratulations to my daughter and son-in-law (it has taken forever for me to be able to say that) I can hardly wait to hear from you. Adios to all our friends.

Ross and Kim in paradise