All's Well That Ends Well

It has been an incredibly chaotic day!

Some how the Sears repair man got rescheduled on the same day that the folks from Somerset decided to come and install the outdoor wood burner.  It is also the day that L and I don't have other pressing matters, such as work or Speech Therapy or errands, so sometimes we get together with friends.  I invited people out to Poplar Ridge today, since I had to be here to let repair men and installers in.

Everyone arrived one after the other this morning.  The men got stuck in the mud out past the barn while trying to unload the wood burner.  Dad and I cleared out everything from under the barn lean-to, so they could off load from that un-muddy direction.  They finally finished up around 8 PM tonight, so I suppose I will now have to learn how to build fires out there now!

I put a path of rugs from the french doors downstairs, leading into the storage area where they were working.  These are still brown from mud, although I've vacuumed them several times...I'm just glad they were down, so I will not have to steam clean the light carpets down there!

My washer is finally repaired.  I tried the dreaded "Rinse and Spin" cycle this evening, to rinse out towels that I used to sop up puddles around the water heater down stairs.  This is the cycle, the ONLY cycle, that had been leaking.  No puddles under the washer afterward, so it is really and truly fixed!  Dad helped me re-stack the dryer, which has been sitting in the craft room for the past 3 weeks.

I really needed to get out of the house this evening, so as the sun began to go down, I checked the tree house (which had been a bit wet after the rain storm earlier in the week).  It is nice and dry now.  I filled the bird feeders and gave the cats food and water.  As I was finally coming in, with a load of firewood, the sunset was gorgeous.

The girls went right to sleep tonight.  All the messes are cleaned up as much as possible for the time being, and I am ready to collapse on the sofa with a cuppa tea and some shortbread to watch Downton Abbey.  I feel very deserving of that tonight, after this day that passed in a flurry.  Some how, this week is nearly over.  I'm not sure how it happened, but thankfully it sped through gracefully and not as clumsily as it has been known to in the past.