I have been pretty much without a computer for a month, except for quick trips to the library to check my bank balance. The super cute straight couple that I sold my Michigan home to August 2011, turned out to be super awful instead. They stopped paying late fall 2012 and told me they had moved out leaving the house clean and ready to go. What with my daughter getting married, and the very cold Northern winter this year (not mention my reunion in February with Ben, a wonderful man, my previous partner, from whom I had been separated for almost a year), we delayed coming,
In mid-April we arrived to find my home a disaster, Mr and Ms nice guy had turned my lovely cottage on the lake into a grow house for marijuana, ripping out walls and wiring, (and closets - now who rips out closets? - you can tell she was no femme. LOL) and ruining every carpet in the home. Two large blessings ... both the furnace and the plumbing remained intact. Good thing, because the night these Florida folks hit Michigan, the temp was 31 actual and 25 wind chill, and we needed that furnace badly.
Slowly, slowly we have been cleaning and planning each next step to take. Had Ben not been with me, I think I would have just gotten back in to the car and gone home. The place was so filthy I oculdn't imagine that anyone had actually lived here. I forgot to mention, they stole the track for the garage door, so we couldn't even get in the house. I am a wheelchair (electric scooter) user, and they took out all the ramps I had installed, except, thank the universe, the large ramp that allows access to the upper level., which was somewhat liveable.
To put it mildly it has been an adventure. We have gotten the place pretty well cleaned up, had the garage door repaired, bought a comfortable bed and a cheap refrigerator. And yesterday, after a two week struggle, and having made three trips to town to provide more and more proof that we were NOT the people they allowed to run up a huge cable bill, Comcast finally turned on our internet service YAAAAAAY!!!
We got the bills paid yesterday and are having a lazy, lay around the house day today. Ben , who was up and busy for a while climbed back into bed where I was playing solitaire on the laptop, and is now snoring away beside me.
Hope you have all been having a wonderful day week and month, with as much adventure, but less agitation than I have been having this last little while.
Smooches,
Keri
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