Flooding, etc

We had a flood... a real flood. Noah's ark over here! Lost power and water (water is powered electrically because we're on a well) during a thunderstorm on Sun night 6/2. A faucet was left open during in-the-dark, no-water evening teeth brushing by children. At 3 AM when the power came on, the faucet started running, overflowing the sink... Till 6:30 AM when we got up. It soaked the floor and subfloor in that room and 4 adjacent spaces and dripped through to the basement. Thankfully, insurance is paying for all restoration related to this "incident."

Significant, professional drying efforts all last week got the house dry (hooray) while HF, Goose, Mouse and I camped upstairs in the not-quite-finished guest room. This week we are waiting for insurance to deal with estamites and such, and late next week we hope that rehab work will begin. In the meantime, we are making do with one bathroom and more spaces that are "in transition" than we had before! In other news--

We went to the Richmond zoo with the local homeschooling group last Wednesday. We liked it:

We took down a dead tree in the back yard (thanks for the help, Uncle Tim):

Roo had her kindergarten "promotion" celebration yesterday- performance and celebration were fantastic!

 Monkey became a cub scout Bear last night at the end-of-year cubscout BBQ:

 And... today is the last day of school. Tiring times! But lots to be thankful for.