Our house is a mess

 

 

 

It’s a mess because we’re emptying out the cupboards and packing up anything that’s loose.  We’re doing that to get out of the way of the workers who are going to fix everything up for us.  They’re fixing everything up because the bottom of the cabinets and the floor in front of the sink are saturated, because there was a water leak, because there was a hole in the PEX flexible plumbing, because a mouse or rat chewed on it while we were gone, because the skirting around the base of the house wasn’t perfectly sealed and the varmint got in.  Don’t know why he chewed the plumbing.  We’ve had mice before and none of them ever chewed through the plumbing.  I guess that’s his personal superpower.

 

While we had the skirting around the house open to let the water dry out another possum got in, so Donald the pest control guy came out and set a trap.  Here is the possum playing possum.

 

…but I digress.

 

That’s a big section of floor that has to be repaired and replaced so we’re just doing all the floor in the whole house and it will all match.  We can’t just pull out one section of cabinet and replace it with a dry one, like the insurance company is limiting its coverage to, so we’ll upgrade the cabinets while we’re at it.  We needed to anyway.  The cabinets are trailer furniture; pressed wood with a paper layer to look like wood.  The paper was peeling.  (We’ve been here fifteen years already.)