Fun fun fun. I am having another out of town guest this week. More people have come to visit me here in the school than ever did near the beach in Boca Raton, Florida. Ridiculous. Anyway, an old friend of mine is coming from the Cayman's for a week. There is a lot of fun things to do here and I am very excited to have someone to share it with, if only for a little while.
Tragically, I have an abundant amount of dogs. Domestic dogs 4 Mommy with 9 -5 day old puppies, mommy with 8 -3 week old puppies. 12 misc puppies and adult dogs in the living room for a total of 34. Yesterday I drove half way to Nashville to a place called Manchester Tn which is where they hold the annual Bonnaroo festival, though there are no signs indicating such. You know, Atlanta says Home of the 1996 Summer Olympics. Manchester should certainly indicate that they host half a million stoner kids/adults every year and make most of their law enforcement receipts from it.
So anyway, ran out of time to get the school out of its normal filth in preparation for Emma's arrival. I did manage to mop the living room and dining room as well as dust the few pieces of furniture remaining in said area. I have several rooms that have dried, crusty poop that I definitely will get to in just a minute. Then there was the hallway, which at night, the dogs feel is truly the great outdoors, and as such needs to be peed and pooped in with vigor! The hallway, therefore, definitely had to be bleached and mopped after a thorough sweeping. I was planning on doing that when I got back from the final walk through at the Chattanooga house and not looking forward to it. The dogs just follow me around and put the place back to its intended nature whenever I get done doing any kind of cleaning. And so it was that I was gleeful when one of the girls staying here called to find out when I was going to be home because they had a little mess they were cleaning up and didn't want me to be upset.
When we first moved into the school we decided that we would have some scrap metal crackhead remove all the commercial air conditioners and fill the holes with lovely European/South American style skylights that open to help vent out the hot air. Well, those things are super expensive, and after paying the plumber so much money for so little work, we were out of our budget last year, so we have made seriously homemade skylights which don't seal quite right and let quite a bit of rain in through the gaps. The girls thought they had the gap issue fixed last week and the skylight (really a door lying flat) held up very well, but with the 3 inches in one night type of rain we had some leaks, not as bad as before. So they were up on the roof as they usually are and wanted to check out how well the Great Stuff and the Wet R Dri held up. They did have to move a tarp off the area that was there just in case.
The tarp WAS filled with quite a bit of water and Channing did suggest they bail it out before they move the tarp, but Stephanie thought just heaving it up would work. And so it did in a way. The gallons of water that were in the tarp found all of the leaks they were looking for, AND soaked the entire length of the hallway (60 feet).
When I got home all we had to do was use the shop vac and suck up all the water, sweep around and wait for the area to dry! It actually took less time thana proper mopping would have.
I am off to the Airport in Atlanta where my friend, in case I haven't mentioned it before, is due to land in the middle of rush hour! She thinks that's why the ticket was so cheap.
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