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The "old" house looks like vandals have trashed the place.  While I DO so much appreciate the help with the moving - did things that weren't in boxes have to be strewn about?  Honestly, it does look like vandals have been in there.

The antiques still sit in the formal living room.  I still don't know their fate.

The "new" house master bath is filled with boxes of "stuff" that has no storage space.  The master bedroom had the mirror from the dressing table on the floor and bags of "stuff."

We are on what was supposed to be a family break in Mason.  Only half the family is here.

And the other half of the family is home BECAUSE my daughter decided she was a cross between a wild monkey and a ninja.  She did something to cause her knee to "pop" when she was (get ready top this from a 46-year-old woman) standing on the bathroom counter reaching across the way to the cabinets on the OTHER wall to check the top shelf.  Her father had just told her to get a ladder.  She is scheduled for an MRI on Monday, so they aren't here.

Plus my SIL who in reality knows NOTHING about cars and drives like a bat out of hell anyway took their SUV to Firestone.  And $2000 later it was still undrivable.  It "shook" like a thrashing machine at 70 mph. 

I think he hit something.  When I was standing in the front yard talking to my granddaughter, she made a comment about the front end damage.  After three days of taking it back because it wasn't fixed, yesterday they asked if that vehicle had hit a pothole.  I am SURE it did - at the very least. But (and he IS a good man)he would lie about it - like he does whenever something like this.  He is a known liar. 

So there are just eight of us rather than 13.

Of course, our drama isn't finished.  When we got here on the 26th, I went to our little freezer.  When I opened it, there was an "unusual odor."  Then I looked at the back of the top door.  Water ran out.  There was still frost at the top, but all the food was only cold - not frozen.  So I have been cooking things that were still very cold.  That means all available refrigerator space is taken up with food - extra food because we all brought the meals we planned.  Of course, with daughter not coming that left two days open.  But even so, enough was brought to feed 13 on each of our days.

So goes our lives.  The story is never dull.