August 23

Friday night, Nick got home from work at 2:00 am. He startled me by knocking on the door quite loudly. He is supposed to let us know when he gets home, so I was glad he did. Just as I was settling back into la-la land, there was this CRASH! I though "what did he trip over?" or that may be something had died, fallen from the sky, and landed on the sky light. It was just really weird, but I just did not have the wherewith all to get up and investigate. About 4 1/2 hour later, when the sun was up and the morning was young, we decided to go on a hike. I grabbed my hiking clothes from the dresser drawer and got ready. As I turned on the closet light to step in and get my shoes, this is what I saw:Now I knew what the crash in the night was. My closet shelf had broken right off the wall and dumped everything on the floor, hangers still intact on the rod. What a mess! and it was broken badly enough that we had to totally re-build my side of the closet. I took everything out and put it in the guest room for holding. It certainly looked bare in there:3 trips to Home Depot and $150.00 later, we had all the materials needed to Spackle, paint, and put up the new closet interior. It took all day... something we had not planned on. While the Spackle dried, we did our WalMart shopping. While the paint dried, we did our Sam's shopping, and while I went to my "girl's night out" where we watched Steel Magnolia's and had great food, Rod put up the hardware. He did a great job! Thank you for doing all this on your precious Saturday off!


We tried to better utilize the space by making part of the closet a "double decker." I just can't believe that the whole thing fell off the wall! I do like the new look, though, and I was able to get rid of some stuff that I just couldn't let go before. So it's all good!