Well the rain has sure returned to Seattle with a vengence. It has been raining pretty much non-stop since Friday. Due to poor drainage off the street and the ditch we dug was blocked by someone who was parked on the street who then dug themselves in as they drove out and covered it up, thus diverting the water down the driveway - we had some major water pouring our yard and washing down whats left of the driveway and into the regraded area around the new garage. This is how the Grand Canyon started, and despite the silt-barriers that Bill and Travis put up Friday after Thursday nights flood, a ton of dirt still washed out and down into the Kim and Marks yard. Saturday's rain was like Florida rain, it came down in buckets.

Gary spent some time digging out the ditch on the street to channel the water away from the drive. I wish I thought to take a picture to show how much water and dirt (mud) washed down our yard and gathered near Kim and Mark's yard.

Anyway, after we got home from dinner last night at Endolyne Joe's with our friends Jay and Steve and Wes - we started moving stuff around in the formal living room as we need to make room for most everything in our TV room.

Then this morning, I packed up all 400 CD's, moved them upstairs and then Gary and I slowly started to pack and move stuff out. We tackled moving the 32" television, TiVo and DVD player upstairs into our 2nd bedroom. This room will be our temporary tv room while the painters get to working on the kitchen/TV room area. Moving that TV upstairs was painful. It must be the WORLDS HEAVIEST TV!!! It was SOOO heavy that we had to take several breaks just to get it up there. We may end up leaving that TV upstairs as I can't imagine carrying that thing back down. Luckily a nice 50" flat screen will be moving into our TV room in the near future.

Some of the things in the TV room will be sold on craigslist.com, so we cleaned that stuff up, took photos and then moved them into the garage. The rest of the stuff moved into our formal living room which takes up all the space in there now. Next weekend, we will have to move the dining room table into this room and then put the fridge out in the garage so they can refinish the hardwoods. The only part of the house that we are living in essentially is upstairs now! So Gary and I will be moving to our Olympia condo in a week since we cannot be here for the 4 days while that the hardwood finishers are working. Abbey and Lucy will be at the boarding kennel, and we'll be enjoying a break from our dirty and cramped house. And when we get back, we expect a clean, shiny, newly painted, new finshed floor downstairs. Actually all this has been good since we are cleaning places that haven't been cleaned in years (least the contractors think we are pigs and slobs) as well as selling off lots of stuff on craigslist (or at least trying too -- so far only the treadmill and the barstools have sold).

The TV Room is completely empty now and when we do move back into this room, we are considering flopping the floor plan and put the new TV on the wall where I am standing in this picture. We are going to either buy a low level cabinet or look into having Superior Cabinets (who are building our kitchen cabinets) make something for us here too.

I can hear the rain coming down outside and it looks like it will be pretty bad tomorrow too - and we have a Seahawks Game in this awful weather... On Monday Robert says they'll be framing the garage (even though it's going to be awful weather - he said "you have to remember, if we work only when it is nice out, then we wouldn't be working to often and jobs would last foreverer". Painters are also scheduled to be painting all week downstairs.