Nashville Flood and continued house projects...

Hello Friends,

Maybe most of you have heard already, but Nashville was flooded this past weekend. I'm at home; downtown where I work is flooded. Not only are parts of downtown inaccessible, but the power has recently gone out downtown. We're not actually sure when my office will re-open; it depends on the power. The damage is major. Check out www.tennessean.com for more pictures. Our house, thankfully, is fine. We are situated on a hill, but these pictures below are just blocks from our house. We feel very lucky. Flood insurance is not something most Nashville residents purchase, so pray for the families who have lost everything this weekend. I know that I will have a job when the water recedes, but many are not sure due to businesses being destroyed and the Grand Ole Opry and Opryland Hotel (one of the city's largest employer) out of business for an indeterminable amount of time.

Our friends Brian and Jenna looking out on the water level a few blocks from our house.

You can see where the water level had already receded from.

This seems like an inappropriate follow up from those pictures, but uploading these in a perfect order is a pain, so...so be it. Miss Chloe poses with her stuffed beaver toy.

Just imagine her saying "HEY!"

I can't remember if I've posted a picture of our washer and dryer, but I'm very pleased to have these in my house. No more hauling weeks worth of laundry to the car to the laundromat, to the car to the house.

These are the little projects I worked on while Caleb was away in California to keep myself occupied in the evenings.

And so the scraping begins....sigh....I've only just begun on the bathroom, and I'm already thinking I should change my voicemail greeting to "Hi, this is Kelli. I'm probably scraping paint or picking paint flecks off my face and out of my hair, so I'll get back to you as soon as I can....beeeeep."

FYI: We sold the air conditioner units! Yay! The first sold for $30, which was the nicest of the bunch, and we kept posting them on craigslist lower and lower until finally we just wanted them OFF our porch and posted the three remaining units for $30 total. We had a customer within the hour. It was great. They showed up in a tiny car and shoved all three in there with two passengers and two HUGE speakers in their trunk. Not sure if those units are still in their car. I have no idea how they were going to get them out.

Our backyard now that spring has greened it up.

An old barbecue that we uncovered from rubble and leaves and branches.

I feel I am becoming my mother. (Love you, mom). My mom loves birdhouses and collects them. This was a cute little towel hook I found at the flea market the other day for the bathroom.

The most recent project (besides scraping paint) are assembling shelves in the bathroom. Caleb put these supports up and assembled the shelves using particle board and piece of molding to make the front of the shelf finished. I've been painting the shelves white and the supports will be green.

She wasn't very sure of this.