The Dance of the Seven Contractors

It’s been a long and frustrating couple of months since the Ida flood and subsequent devastation of our ground level. (Which we call “the basement” but is not, by the official definition, a basement. You can walk out from that floor into the backyard, and a basement is, by definition, below the ground level on all four sides. This turned out to be a major factor in getting the insurance to pay a fraction of our contents losses, rather than nothing at all.)

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In short: Our home is functional again, but the last few pieces continue to stretch on and will likely take a few more months to actually get into place. (Long enough for more things to break, certainly.) It has been frustrating and stressful, but at least I can sit on my couch again.