September 2011

I don't have any pictures of September 2011 at all.  As everyone knows, that was when the Tropical Storm Lee occurred and the resulting aftermath in Bloomsburg.  While I did  have surface water damage in my finished basement and lost power for a few hours, I was very mindful of the devastation that others faced in the community.  So I think that between the start of the school year and the clean up at my own house in regard to the water damage, I didn't have time for pictures!

July of 2011

Looking back through the  pictures from my one year blog hiatus, I found some from a neat Children's Museum that Annalise and I went to.  We stumbled upon it while on a shopping trip in Scranton.  The Children's Museum was rather small and actually while I think about it, it was located inside the Steamtown Mall.  Even though it was on the small side I remember that Anna really enjoyed playing there, especially the little market/cash register set up that they had.

It Has Been Awhile....

So, it definately has been awhile since I have blogged.  No real reason, I just kind of got away from it in the summer time with everything going on.  Then, even though we live high on a hill, we had surface water damage to our finished basement during the flood in September.  At first I attempted to use the Shop-Vac to dry out the carpeting, but to no avail, we ended up having to rip it all out because the padding underneath was just too saturated.  In addition to the carpet just being too saturated to be salvagable, from the moisture and humidity in the days following, mold was beginning to grow around the moulding.  I knew at that point that the only answer to get everything dried out was to rip it out, soooooooo, rip it out we did.  To rip everything out, the rooms had to be emptied out which included disconnecting my computer which had been in one of the downstairs rooms.  I have not had internet at home since then which made an already-slow-to-update blogger even slower =).
So, fast forward to today, new carpeting is being installed and by the end of the week all of the rooms with be back into shape, including the computer with internet.  I plan on updating the blog little by little as I have LOTS of pictures to add to it!