My first insurance clame

It's summer time... and you know what they say: "Summer showers bring fall flowers". We have had a LOT of rain lately. my basement has leaked 3 times already, but I can handle that... This is what I would rather not have to handle:

It was Wednesday June 8th. I was sleeping down stairs because Monday and Tuesday were 90 degree days and my bedroom up stairs was boiling hot. I had dragged a mattress down in the living room and that's where I was sleeping. I woke up at about 1am to a horrible noise, hale. Hale on Hale street. for about 10 minutes or so it haled, it was loud, not huge but a lot of it and mixed with a lot of wind. it went from 80's to the 60's. after the hale it rained, actually it poured. I woke up once to a weird sound in the front of my house, I got up and opened the front door, yep, still poring... but somehow water was dripping between my front door and my storm door.... I went back to bed. I woke up once more and heard more dripping... sounded like the kitchen... couldn't be though, all the windows were shut... oh well... I was tired and was sure everything was fine.

When I got up in the morning I might have ran, I don't remember, but I ate breakfast, put Matilda out, packed my lunch, made coffee and got ready for work. I put Matilda in the cage and headed out the door. Froze. "drip" "drip" It was still raining but it was dripping on the floor by my table room window. I just stared at it for a while, put all my stuff down and found that it was coming from above the window, I looked up... A WET SPOT!! :( but it wasn't dripping from the wet spot, it was dripping from above the window... I got a towel and wiped it up and put a towel down to catch the rest of the drips.... Called my dad... He couldn't do anything... I couldn't do anything, of course the stupid rain was still coming down. I hated it. Sadly and in a much worse mood than I had been 5 minutes before I headed out to work. It didn't rain too much on the way... that was good. but when I got to work it started to pour again. Angry. But what could I do? I looked at the radar with despair and saw the HUGE storm system that had gone through and  the other huge one that was going to go through. What could I do? I called a roofer. Once it stopped raining I met up with him and was assured that yes, my roof really was leaking and needed repair. Hale damage he said.

Then I called the insurance person. They said they would call back the next day. in the mean time the roofer guys came and put a tarp on the roof. 2 nights ago it rained hard again and water came through a little anyway :( I guess the insurance is going to fix it but I still have a 1000 to pay. Their goes my extra fence painting money from Condor Capital.

Oh well... what can I do? Fix it I guess. I'm just worried.... Ryan my neighbor said that they re did the inside of that room before I looked at the house.... I'm guessing they just covered up that their was a problem and this exact same thing had already happened in the previous years... I have no opening to my addict above that room or the kitchen.... What else could have been covered up their? what else could have been covered up all over the house? My bath tub creeks when I stop on one spot.. like nothing is under their...The basement leaks and the cement stuff around the foundation is coming off although I did read that you don't even need that stuff...  I don't know what could happen. I live their.... and I wait.

Gardens and Flowers

Things are going good at the house. I haven't seen as many spiders, so that's nice. The air conditioner works, so that's good - it dosen't work too well for my bedroom however, I just dragged my double mattress down stairs to get out of the heat, I'd say it's about 20 degrees hotter up their & I value my sleep A LOT. I should probably get a window air conditioner up their, or I could just move a bed down to the computer room for the summer. I'm wondering what my electric bill will be with the air on - i'm guessing it will be similar to the gas bill during the winter.

I planted a garden - twice actually, but the second time did the truck and beans and peas are growing now -- nothing from the spinach or lettuce so far but it's only been 9 days, they may take longer. I also bought pepper plants and tomatoes, and they are doing well. I'm pretty exited about fresh veggies this summer.
I also got a hanging flower pot for my front porch & also found a rocking chair in the garbage on the porch - it looks very homey now :) I like it.
Another thing I really like about my house is all the great running routs I have. I have a nice 6.5 mile loop, a 7.5 mile loop, a 8 mile loop, a 9 mile loop a 10.3 mile loop, a 6 mile loop a 4 and a 5. pretty much anything I would want to do - most of them have hills or creek crossings to make things interesting.
I guess nothing else is really new with the house, I like the yard work, I want to get river rock for around the house and plant some bushes. I have killed the trees that were starting to grow again around my house, I think a few lived though and I will need to put the acid on those again. My basement is still leaking, I used the de humidifier down their to help dry everything up, but I didn't realize that once the tank filled up it kept going and over flowed -- so then re flooded my basement, that was nice. I still need to put my pannels up on the side of the house with the problems -- also still need gutters.... Always somethign to do! but it will be fun learning - I get great satisfaction from doing house hold chores and tasks although sometimes it is slightly over whelming - I did get my first hose, hose sprayer and hose holder that I attached to my house - I think they look nicer than the plastic roller things and it also only cost $5 which of course was a big selling point.