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New tile

Well I just bought new tile for the bathroom from edenmosaictile.com. I hope it gets here before next weekend, because I am going to pull out the wall tile in there after work this week. I want to have it completely done by the end of the weekend so I don’t have to worry about it anymore. I made sure that it is exactly what I wanted and the right colors as well. I will be happy when I finish this bathroom up.

I really like doing the work myself on the house, because I can feel a certain amount of pride in it. Not many women will do the DYI stuff themselves. They typically let their boyfriends and husbands do it. Well, not me. Unless it is something I cannot possibly do or requires permits from a licensed contractor, I do it all myself. My father taught me to be self reliant and so I am. Have a great day everyone.

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Recovering from the Texas Wildfires

With all the drought in Texas this summer and the awful wildfires, you would not think that homeowners who live in the Austin area would have trouble with water and flooding. But when I heard that an entire neighborhood just east of downtown Austin was on fire, I knew that the firemen were having to work hard to put out fires in homes, not just the forests. When they came upon a house on fire, they had to fight that fire with water. So although the firemen saved the house from burning to the ground, the water damage from all that water will require professional cleaning, especially if the houses had wall to wall carpet that got soaked.

My former neighbor, John, moved to Austin about 6 years ago and I called to check on him, wondering if the wildfires were any threat to where he was living. He assured me that he was on the other side of town, but that many co-workers lived East of the city and their homes were at risk. His boss was already faced with finding a water to help with the damages to his family’s home.