Monday Blues

Here is a quick update before I go back to doing some work. Casey and I got into Laramie on the night of the 10th. Did some work on the house and met with a Realtor on Friday to talk about listing our house for sale. Saturday we decided we wanted to put it on the market asap since it was pretty much ready to go. Sunday we continued to do some last minute work before the Realtor came by Monday to take pictures. Monday, I did some last minute cleaning, the Realtor came by, took pictures and said that the house would be listed that day. Now, get ready for this super exciting and super ironic part of my story: the river a couple blocks away was rising pretty fast, and had been for the past couple of days, as was the ground water here at our house. While the realtor was taking pictures Casey decided that it was probably time to start moving Bj and Tersa's stuff out of the basement, just in case we had to tear up carpet due to flooding, as we could see the ground water seeping out of our french drain. So a bunch of people came over to help us move their stuff out of the basement, and then we just watched and waited for a little while, hoping that we wouldn't have to tear out all the carpet, padding and baseboard. However, as luck would have it, the ground water kept rising higher and faster, so we eventually had to pull it all out. About 30 minutes later the water started seeping through the cracks on the floor, and then it started seeping in from the side of the walls, and needless to say it's been a very, very long week, and so far and it doesn't look like we'll be selling our house for a little while. The most ironic part, there haven't been water levels this high since the late 1950's. This house has been sitting here for 20 years with no water damage in the basement that we know of, until the DAY we go to put it on the market.

To try to look on the bright side, it hasn't rained since Sunday, and hopefully it doesn't for a while. And, nothing of Bj and Tersa's was ruined, and we were able to save our carpet. The water has stopped seeping into the basement (thank goodness!), and Casey and I were able to rig up a sweet irrigation system, with a water pump and gutters yesterday to prevent further water coming in from our drain. So far, we have had to cut out a couple of inches of drywall were the water had soaked in, but fortunately that's the extent of the damage at the moment, we'll see what else pops up in the next little while. There were some other awesome things that went wrong Monday, but it's really not worth my time to list them, we are just super grateful to the people that helped us move stuff out of the basement, as well as the GREAT friends that stayed until close to midnight trying to help us keep the water in the basement to a minimum, so with this, Casey and I say thank you to all that helped us. Here's some pictures for thought:

BEFORE

DURING AND AFTER

Our pump and irrigation system

Luckily we had our sump pump to push water into, as well as our water heater drain to keep water levels down fairly low during the night.

Goodbye Texas

Casey and I are wrapping up our time here in Texas. It has been a great time though! I am going to miss being down here though. However, we picked a great time to go for many reasons. It's starting to get ENTIRELY too hot for me, working in 90 + heat sure isn't my idea of fun! So we will miss the really really hot summer, not too sad about that. And, we stayed just long enough to see Candice's new baby! She had her on Tuesday morning (Which was when we were originally thinking about leaving). So after we have a little more time with Casey's sister and niece and finish up a few jobs here, we will be taking off and head to Laramie and then Afton! Take care and see you all in Laramie soon!

Texas

I thought I had better write a quick update on how we are doing. First of all, we are still alive and doing well. We are at the end of our time here in Texas, which is a bitter-sweet feeling, though I can't say I am sad that we will miss the really hot heat but I have really enjoyed it here!. We will leave around the first of June and head back to Wyoming and spend the summer doing jobs in Afton.

We have definitely accomplished a lot in the time we have been here though! Casey has done alot of work and I have learned a lot of carpentry skills that have helped me be a more useful employee!! There are still a couple of projects left to do however so I had better get back to doing them. I will add pictures later when I get the desire! Hope everyone is good!

Adventures of the Frome's!

Hi all! So we are not in Hawaii anymore (much to my disappointment at this current time due to cold weather and, yes, snow!) However we did have a great time.  Overall we spent two weeks on the Big beautiful Island and then a week in Oahu, with my cousin and her wonderful family!! We had a blast, but knew that Hawaii wasn't going to be our home, just a great vacation place! Though we will definitely be going back some day! We came back to the mainland the end of February and have been spending most of our time since in Evanston helping my parents finish up on projects in their business and home. We had the chance to spend a week in Star Valley putting up a green house for Kim.  Though, I do have to note that, that week it started snowing the day we got there and didn't really let up all that much until we were done and leaving Star Valley! So as ironic as it was, we had fun putting up the greenhouse in the middle of an amazing snow storm!  We are now starting to pack up (again!) and we are headed, first, to Oklahoma City, to do some jobs for Casey's brother-in-laws dad, and then we will continue down to Texas to help his sister with some projects and, hopefully, get some other projects down there from some other people! Casey is also hoping that some opportunities will open up down there, if so then we may stay down there for a while!  As of now we are planning on staying there until June! We have had a lot fun and work in this area, but it's time to move on I suppose! Hope everyone is enjoying the cold and snow in spring!! 

More fun in Hawaii!

More updates from the Big Island! The fun of camping has ended for now, to Casey's dismay (I'm sure) and my....well pleasure! (I really, really like showers and a soft bed!). We have found a room to rent in a house in the Kailua Kona area on the Big Island, so we will be her for at least a month! During this time Casey and I will look at the possibilities of employment and see how practical it would be for us to live here! For now her are a couple of room pictures....it's dark right now so I don't have any house pictures...

No I wasn't trying to capture the tv in our room, this is our personal entrance into our room! Yep, pretty exciting!

So here is the last camping spot before we moved into our humble abode! Here is a picture of the sunset on Spencer Beach, which is just north of where we are....this was our last campout meal! It was a beautiful sunset...and yes, I took A LOT of pictures!


Today we went to some garage sales early....apparently people take it pretty serious around here! I filled out the worlds longest application for a job and then we went to the beach! It was a beautiful day here in Kona! We did some snorkeling and Casey did some of this:
Casey's castle did survive the waves up until we left!

We hoe all is super swell back home! We love you all and we would love to hear how everyone back home is!

Oh Yeah, this is on the road to Spencer Beach, nothing like parting a vehicle on the highway...if only we needed something!