Now I know I wanted new carpet, but this is a bit extreme

I think I may have mentioned once or twice that I HATE my carpet. It's brown. Need I say more. No-one in their right mind has brown carpet, do they? Ok, it was here when we bought the house 2.1/2 years ago & my DH has been promising that I could get new, maybe this year......

Well guess what. I'M GETTING NEW CARPET!!!!

Oh, BTW, did I mention that it's been raining a lot here lately. Now, I hear you saying, what the heck has that got to do with getting new carpet.

Well, on Wednesday Shannon, Sam & I went to pick up an ebay purchase of Shann's (which we didn't anyhoo cos the silly woman wasn't home & Shann was furious but Shann got the day wrong anyway, but that's another story}.

So, there we were, up in Katoomba & you can see right back to Sydney almost. The sky is getting really, really dark, kinda purple so I said we better get back because that looks nasty.

Nasty wasn't the word. We got back to my house, through bumper to bumper traffic & flooded roads, to discover that my house was flooded.

So, to cut a very long story short (I could go on gals, about Shann & I taking turns out in the pouring rain, breaking up concrete with a sledge hammer to help some of the water run away), Shann, Sam & I spent the next Lord only knows how many hours mopping up & trying to stop more water getting in the house.

Sam, God love him, helped his Nanny mop up wet carpet with towels & was a shining light in a very dismal night. Don't know what I would have done if they hadn't been there.

Shane (my SIL) drove up & brought Shann & Sam's stuff so they could stay the night.

My poor DH was away in Queensland visiting his elderly Mum & my step-daughter & her family, so I had to ring him & tell him to come home. No way was I doing all this on my own. He drove all day Thursday (12 hrs) to get back here.

BUT, NOW THE GOOD PART (yep, even in all that there is a good bit). NOT ONLY AM I GETTING NEW CARPET, ACCORDING TO THE INSURANCE MAN, I AM ALSO GETTING A NEW KITCHEN. (Big smiles here).

I kinda like my old kitchen, I love the colour that Shann painted it when we moved in, cos the cupboards were revolting, it's gorgeous French Blue. But, being an old kitchen, it's very porous evidently & the water damage is already starting to show.

So, Shannon, Sam & I spent all day Thursday packing all my pretties & storing them all in the computer room, which is the only room that didn't get the water. John & I have to finish off packing & moving most of the furniture so that the carpet can be pulled up.

Shannon, of course, always has her trusty camera ready (lol), so she took some happy snaps of the mess. The first one is us driving through part of the flooded road on the way back home.

Second is part of my kitchen & hallway after we mopped up the worst of it.

Don't you love the little river that was running through my laundry. And that's AFTER the worst was over. Sam, of course, is busy supervising Nanny & taking a little sustenance. Being the overseer is hard work :-}

The feet in the puddle are mine, after it had subsided a bit.

Packing up has progressed & I'll post some more photos later & tell you how BAD WET, DIRTY CARPET SMELLS!!!

Hugs, Coll :-}