If you guys didn’t think the fridge was enough going out on me this week yesterday was the icing on the cake.
Let me just preface by saying I am very blessed that I am a positive person and have unwavering faith.
Oh I may have gotten to my breaking point and cried once again apparently that’s my thing these days. But tears are definitely cleansing. And there is a freeing when we fall apart, as long as we put ourself back together.
As things started to build up yesterday I tried my hardest to stay put together.
I’m almost embarrassed to write this blog because half this stuff I probably couldn’t have made up to tell a story but it is what happened and I’m willing to share.
My day started on such a positive note I was excited to go share a woman of strength brunch with about 50 other women and listen to a powerful motivational speaker who shared her story about struggling, choices, temptations , defeat, and triumphs!
I was definitely motivated to go make my day successful to be positive and know despite my circumstances I am truly blessed - Little did I know the rest of the day‘s events would need her boost when I received it or my attitude and self-pity could’ve been in a completely different position when I got to bed last night , well this morning at about 1 o’clock.
Note to self as I need the reminder daily. Trust the timing of my life.
After brunch, an appointment, several errands including getting hay and feed and groceries to replace all the spoiled stuff in my refrigerator, I didn’t get home until a little after 4 o’clock.
Greeted by the pool guy as I pulled up he went to the backyard to get my pool all nice and sparkly, ready for the weekend and keeping it maintained.
I went inside and Paxton had done most of his list of chores while I was gone for the day without complaining and for that I am truly grateful. When I asked him why he didn’t work with his horse like he was going to he said that it was so wet outside that he couldn’t even tie her up to brush her or get her ready to take her to our neighbors arena and round pen!
Rewind to the day before when I shut off the landscaping timer because the orchard had once again started flooding behind the horses fence. I automatically thought it was a timer because that’s what had happened last time and it got stuck on and watered for nine hours and the soil can’t handle that much water at one time. Little did I know until the pool guy started coming towards the house that it was flowing through the horse area from behind the orchard into the wash which was filled up. The water was up to the top of my beloved deck and standing. No way to tell where it was even coming from. We got the water shut off from the house to the backyard which mind you shuts off everything- All the water to the animal pens and any plants/trees and garden it’s hooked to.
The landscaper told me he could come on Monday and try to figure out what the issue was so we could get it repaired. And I figured I could just turn the main water on to fill up the animal water as necessary but something wouldn’t keep running continuously. My water in March was almost $300 from the orchard flooding twice. In April I had my pool drained and the tile cleaned and filled back up. Cant imagine that is cheap. So not sure May will get any better after water ran for about 24 hours.
Someone was coming over this weekend to move the dirt around so I can get all my animal pens set up appropriately and the water re-distributed after we had the pigs butchered and wanting to turn the pen back into a horse pen with an automatic waterer instead of the nipples Steve put in for the pigs to drink from. With all the standing water I don’t think that’s going to be something possible this weekend. Another ping of disappointment but I am confident it will get done.
As my pool maintenance guy was leaving he informed me that he had tried for about 20 minutes to get my pool vacuum unstuck and he would take it with him to see what he can do otherwise I might need to buy a new one. In my head all I thought was “shit happens”.
I cleaned out my garage refrigerator as best as I could to get my food in there since my inside refrigerator isn’t being fixed until the 18th.
I made dinner, we ate and I went into my room to discover one of the dogs threw up on my bed. I actually rolled my eyes even though there was no one to roll them at. I removed the soiled comforter and threw it in the washing machine.
About an hour later I decided to go into a bathroom to use it. Went pee and flushed the toilet. Paxton came running in my room pointing and I ran out there and my half bath where the toilet is currently missing because we’re redoing the floors in our house came up from my septic and flooded under the walls into the hall into my kitchen and living space. Luckily it’s mostly concrete and about half the room full of new tile- no carpet no baseboards to contend with. Here I go again looking for the positive.
I was honestly at my wits end talking to my friend on the phone and completely bawling my eyes out.
I should honestly be laughing at this point because it’s just so unreal it’s funny.
Paxton and I quickly gathered up all the towels we could find in our house clean and dirty ones! And started sopping up septic water. Yuck.
A quick phone call to an old friend who owns a plumbing/HVAC company and he had someone at my house in 30 minutes.
Apparently my leech lines are at the end of where the orchard was leaking, and one of my neighbors read online for me that heavy rains or standing water can cause your septic to back up I’m hoping that’s all it was.
40+ towels later, ( don’t even ask why I own so many - grateful now) the new next door neighbor who happened to have an industrial fan I could borrow offered and I used some spray bleach to treat the floors and my newly laid not yet grouted tile.
Picture this piles of drenched towels I was picking up with a huge scoop shovel and dumping on my front porch to set overnight so I could make sure I soaked up as much standing water as I could.
Not really wanting to wash at midnight.
Did I mention both of my closings for this month the buyers cancelled! One changed their mind the other didn’t end up qualifying after the lender discovered a late payment that was made in February that finally hit their credit. Reminder, don’t lie on your loan application the stuff catches up and you end up wasting 2-3 weeks of sellers like mine’s time on market.
I have a single story ensuite with 3 bed and 3 bath and a two story 6 bed 4 bath with pool and spa in case anyone is looking in Florence, AZ, hit me up.
I woke up at 5:40 AM because my internal clock can’t ever seem to make it to 6 AM. I am alive, I am not homeless, as far as I know I am healthy and today is a new day. This was all stuff that I couldn’t control and therefore I can just move forward and find solutions.
May you all have blessed days and know that you may not always have a good day but like the saying goes you can always find something good in your day. I can definitely name more than one thing but I will say that hopefully all this stuff happened close together so I can find peace for a little while without something major or minor interrupting my flow.
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