Cookie Celebration

We can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Though the maintenance man asked us to keep running two fans (they are taking two back to the main campus) and the dehumidifier until tonight but not through the night, the end is in sight. Unfortunately, the flood damage abatement company is closed Saturday and Sunday so we have no way to get the probe to test for dry padding. However, it is really dry in the house. My little temperature/humidity gauge says 30% and my skin and mucous linings are feeling dried out.

I bought the Ghirardelli cookie mix with a coupon previously and when it went on sale I bought another box because they are good. Of course I like dark chocolate, but these seem richer than the refrigerated cookie dough. Time to bake up a treat in anticipation of the end of the flood mitigation efforts.

You add one egg and a stick of butter (hence the richness). This mix makes about two dozen good-sized cookies.

I did a little more KonMari folding.

In the spirit of the Young Mum, I am not showing my underwear drawer. These are my nighties. The brightest square is my swimsuit. I have a new dresser I ordered with one less drawer coming in 4-6 weeks; I am trying the folding to see if it saves space. I think it does. The YouTube videos take quite awhile to go through with this purger/organizer but she mostly adheres to KonMari. Her folding is a little different but works.

This afternoon I am going to Goodwill for the half-off-price sale to look for some decorating books. The sun is shining and my whole day is looking brighter.

Tuckered Out

We are still in the flood mitigation process. After about 28 hours of working to dry things out, we have made good progress. Instead of  squishy soggy carpeting, we just have damp spots. It is a lot of work to keep rotating the fans though.

 The little black box is an ionizer to keep smells down. The maintenance man who used a wet vac along side my husband's wet vac, then a water extractor on Tuesday, came back Wednesday afternoon to use a shampooer with just water to rinse the laundry detergent out of the carpeting. Then he applied a spray the housekeeping supervisor supplied to capture molecules that might mold.

We were really blessed that Grace Village had the equipment and knowledge to tackle this clean-up project. They did rent a dehumidifier from a Warsaw company that does water damage abatement. The company told them to run it for at the minimum 2 days. It was started Wednesday morning and will continue to at least lunch time tomorrow (Friday). Tomorrow sometime a probe will be borrowed which can measure dampness in the carpet pad. That will determine whether to keep running the dehumidifier or whether we are done.

It doesn't look like much water being collected but there is a steady movement of water in the tube.

With the constant hum of the dehumidifier and the roar of the fans, I haven't slept very soundly the past two nights. Tonight we should be able to turn the fans down to the low setting which will help a lot.
Hopefully, tomorrow we can start putting back the things we had to hurriedly move out of the path of the seeping water.

The shoes out of the closet where they were lined up on the floor.

The books quickly taken from the hall bookcase so the furniture could be moved.

I have been sorting through the books; not using the Konmari method much since that requires holding each book to see if it sparks joy. While I am stressed out from the constant noise, joy is in short supply. But I have purged out some, mostly cookbooks.

I will be glad when life returns to normal. We probably do face a reflooring job in the bathroom.