LilyCrazy's Blog

As some of you know, my house was damaged by a HUGE oak tree the night before Memorial Day. Even though we have the roof tarped, rain continues to get in and it's causing a tremendous amount of damage to the interior- as well as the devastation to the outside ! Not only did we lose a 200+ year old oak tree, but we also lost the first tree we planted here- 8 yrs ago, a gorgeous cherry tree.  It's been a long week and a half of insurance adjusters, rain, storms, loss of power and just chaos. So tonight....... since about 5 pm we have been watching tornado warning after tornado warning in Iowa- just crazy !!!

Sooooooo after a night of never-ending RAIN and thunderstorms, my hubby and I woke up to a huge MESS in the kitchen- of course the rain is still getting in in spite of the tarps- wallpaper is falling off in big sections, the PAINT is peeling off the drywall, which no longer should be called DRYwall, because it sure isn't !!  Ugh..... what a mess- and with all the bad weather every day, the contractor can't get up there and start tearing the damaged parts off- it's too dangerous with high wind and lightning. Damned if you do and damned if you don't I guess !!  If I've said it once the past couple weeks I've said it twice, THANK GOD for insurance !!!!!!   What's the forecast ?? More storms today and then this evening, after heating up to 86 degrees this afternoon, more severe thunderstorms with a greater chance of tornados. Extended forecast ?  Rain.... rain.... rain- just about every day for the next week.

With all this rain you'd think my GRASS would look awesome, right ??  NO WAY !!!   When our house was built the developer came in and cleared off all the topsoil leaving this horrible sand/clay mix behind, which is what they laid our sod on- now, even eight years later, the grass is soooo crappy, nothing we have done to improve it has been much of a help. And we have tried everything short of paying thousands of bucks for new topsoil trucked in and spread on top. We have patches of thick, lush gorgeous grass in the middle of this vast sea of weeds, brown grass and dead patches......

That's what I love about blogs.... I can gripe and complain all I want !!!

Now to change gears a little bit- I AM very thankful for everything, in spite of the weeds and tree mess, we DO have a lovely home and nice lot, pretty gardens and an awesome fish pond (which is going to be expanded soon !!) Just these little inconveniences....... overall I'm very happy and wouldn't trade my home for anything (although I MIGHT be tempted to trade the grass- hahahahaha)