Long 2 weeks..

 Deb has been gone for the past 2 weeks, up in Maine attending her father who has recently passed away. Time just seemed to have stood still down here. Katelyn and Orion have again relocated and went back to Maine as they intended to after spending 2 years down here with us. Things have gotten so much quiter, less hectic, and simpler. No dog barking, leaving food all over the floor as he can't for the life of him eat over his bowl, much like drinking water.. I swear that dog leaves a trail no matter what or where. The three cats have also gone with them, so there is no porch monitoring for screen breaches any longer. Already replaced every screen on the porch, a couple, twice...Cobb was the instigator in that fiasco.. she loves to try and catch the small lizards and other occasional cats that rome the neighborhood/our yard, and launches herself on the screens trying to get at them.

With the exception of the upper level, the house has been cleaned, re-arranged for about the third or fourth time., but I think it is now somewhat the way we like it. Nikki has reaarranged her library/office as well the loft family area on the upper level. Still have to refurnish and do a major cleaning up there. Not to happy that the youngest with the animals being allowed  to make such a mess and then basically walk away from it. So now we need to whipe down, vac, and steam clean carpets, etc to rid the sights and smells from the cats. I also lay a good majority of that on her husband, he had several days and hours where he could have done something other than play video games online. It wouldn't have killed him to do some cleaning, but his focus was selfish and on his personal stuff rather than the condition they were leaving the rooms in up there. But all is slowly returning to normal again.

Deb is scheduled to fly back into Orlando tomorrow night, and I am sure she is ready to come home and be done dealing with her siblings, etc over the dad issues, the estate, home repairs and sale, arrangements, etc. The list goes on.. You would think that between 6 adults... they could figure stuff out without all the turmoil.. but no...they are all of different opinions, abilities, etc, and cant seem to agree on much, hense prolonging the process and making it more dificult to get shit done in a timely manor. So, I am sure she is all but done with it and them... I know I am ready for her to be back here..

Anyway, that was just an updated version of the long 2 weeks... Lets see where we go from here!