I’m so tired, I’m cross-eyed!! I kid you not; this has been an exhausting day!! (Fortunately, I wasn’t scheduled to work.) I’ve done three loads of laundry: rugs, rags, towels…. I washed the dishes that had piled up for two days. I’ve reorganized the displaced items BUT it will be several days before everything is back in order. I removed the cover from the ironing board so the wood can dry (and will need to buy a new cover). I put the ironing board back in the closet with the “fat end” up so it won’t be in water if the flood happens again.

This morning I discovered water damage I was previously unaware of. Water in the clothes closet and cardboard boxes with water marks three and four inches high. Not that the water was that high but the cardboard (sitting on wet carpet) acted like a straw and soaked higher and higher. A neighbor stood on his porch and told me he knows what I am experiencing. He said it came up in their furnace cabinet. “Furnace cabinet!! Oh my gosh, I didn’t check there!!” Yes, water came up there, too, and it was dark sludge (versus clear water that I dealt with yesterday). So I have cleaned, and cleaned, and cleaned. I’m exhausted!!

I’m looking at this “as a blessing in disguise.” I’ll not put a dozen things near the front door as a “staging area” for things for sale and for free. I’m going to load things in the KIA and haul them to a Christian Thrift Shop in Lancaster, South Carolina. I’m going to force myself to get the things out of the apartment. After all, I had already decided I would sell the item(s) or give away. So why have them cluttering my apartment??

It’s almost 4 o’clock. I’m going to enjoy a cup of tea while watching Dr. Oz on TV. I doubt I’ll get much done this evening. My “get up and go got up and went”!!  ~~  A few pictures taken today.

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I suspect someone has been reading my blog and thought I could use more suggestions regarding things to jettison. Today I received this link for Eighteen things you can get rid of today.

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