Busy & Dirty Days

It seems like there is always 'something' happening at our house and a lot of times it ends in home repair. Many of you know that we had to re-do the inside of our house from the ground up after we bought it. Right now we are getting ready to put a new roof on and do some driveway repairs. It's a never ending saga of repairs and replacements with home owning, this last Sunday night was no different.

We got home late Sunday evening and started getting the kids ready for bed. Bronze commented about a smell, a bad smell. I noticed it too and it kept getting worse. We finally looked out in the garage and found that our sewer had backed up through a pipe coming out of our crawl space. YUCK! Sewage was all over and the smell was terrible.

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We had to temporarily plug the pipe to keep anything else from coming up.

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A couple diapers and some tape are doing good job for now. I have a feeling this is going to be a big project. It looks like Bronze is going to have to re-plumb a lot of the drainage piping under the house so that it will function properly. Ugh!

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We have been using our garage as a storage unit so there was a lot of clean up to be done. Knowing there wasn't much that could be done Sunday night we waited until Monday morning to get started. It was a long, hot, disgusting day!

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Bronze's mom and sisters came over to help keep these guys entertained while we worked on stuff. We were able to get everything pretty much cleaned up and put back together and of course downsized a lot with everything we ended up getting rid of. I am just thankful it wasn't any worse, I'm sure it could have been.