Our poor house

When we went to Tucson for my scan, we stayed in a rented Airbnb because we knew our house was too torn up to live in.

When we stopped by our house to take a look at how the remodel was progressing, it was hard to see it in such a state.

Yes, we did this by choice, but it’s still upsetting to see. If we had seen this house on the market and it looked this way we would never have bought it. And then we go and do this to our house ourselves!

Even our yard is trashed.

Remember there was a flood when our contractor was demolishing the old kitchen? Not only was it “not his fault”, he also didn’t do anything to try to save our stuff. Fragile items were just laying around and spilling out of half-opened, soggy boxes. All our cookbooks are ruined. A flokati rug was ruined. Everything was such a mess.

This was not how everything was packed. John and I are neat, careful packers. The wet boxes were just dragged and tossed around by our contractors.

We didn’t want any further damage done, so John got some more boxes and quickly repacked everything, regardless of condition. We’ll just have to sort it through later and replace what isn’t salvageable.

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