Family dinner

Family dinner was a Greek/Mediterranean theme this month.  Dad and Sherry brought pita and hummus, plus Dad brought some of his homemade cheese curds from their goat milk.  They were so good!!!  Justine brought a delicious spinach salad with feta and lots of good stuff on it. Carrie brought kalaskhlsdfskbdland  ????? none of us could pronounce it/and or remember how to spell it, but it was good!  We made some meat thing on kabobs (once again, the name leaves me) with a spicy yogurt sauce.  There were fresh fruit smoothies for dessert.

Luckily, the rain held off so the kids were all able to go play outside and several people were able to sit outside and eat.  Since everyone was so spread out, I didn't get many pictures. 

Sadly, this is the last family dinner we will host in this house :(  If all goes as planned, we will sign on the sale of the house July 20th.

The floral design Skott made in my smoothie

Skott handled all the food and dessert tasks.

Paco was a little freaked out by all the people

Carrie likes her smoothie!

Kenalee and Erika

Kenalee loving Erika

Justine

Sherry

They know who the softie is to beg from

Remember Me

Remember Me

Author: Unknown

Remember me when flowers bloom
Early in the spring
Remember me on sunny days
In the fun that summer brings

Remember me in the fall
As you walk through the leaves of gold
And in the wintertime - remember me
In the stories that are told

But most of all remember
Each day - right from the start
I will be forever near
For I live within your heart

Maple bacon + dark chocolate

For family dinner at Carries last month we were instructed to "bring something with bacon".
This is what we brought:

Maple bacon and Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies!

(yes, I realize the picture is sideways.  Blogger was flipping it every time)

Caution: Slippery when wet

I know I do a lot of complaining about my job, when really, I should be grateful I have some form of employment.
but I think this "situation" at work is getting a bit ridiculous.... what do you think?

Background:
about 6-8 weeks ago, puddles started to form in the basement of the hotel.  They were atributed to a leak in one of the water park pumps.   Said leak was located and repaired but the puddles continued to grow.
Eventually, the entire basement was covered in at least an inch of standing water.  Funny, the management wasn't the least bit concerned.
Several weeks go by.  The time clock is in the basement, the breakroom is in the basement, housekeeping is in the basement.  I was working all night with soaked socks from sloshing through the water in the basement.
After a month of this ridiculousness, someone reported the company to OSHA.  Oh boy, management was FURIOUS!  "Who would do such a thing?" they lamented.  They were given a week to remedy the hazard. 
They did nothing except this:

This is the sign on the door to the storage rooms.  I think this is their way of covering their butts.
Day 6 of their week timeline they start moving boxes from the soaked storage rooms.
Lots and lots of soaked, moldy boxes lined the stairwells to the basement.  I saw unbelieveable things like the big screen tv's -soaked.  Boxes of pillows -soaked. It was smelly and slightly frightening due to the dangers of mold.
They finally decided maybe they should tear out sheetrock and insulation since it looked like this:

(notice how high up the sheetrock the water and mold is?)

After installing a sump pump (that did nothing to help) they decided to just "give up" in hopes that as summer came, the water would go away.  Apparently, the problems stem back to cutting corners on permits and tests when they built the hotel four years ago... Turns out they built on a marshy area.

So this is what I deal with every day, this is what I wade through every night on my way to the timeclock and housekeeping.  It smells absolutely wretched down there and just recently, the guest complaints have started -"Our room smells musty....".  Hmmmm ,yah think?

How can this be legal?

How can this be healthy?

How are they getting away with this?

storage

Housekeeping.  The shiny is all water.

This is the deepest area, well over 1"

the hallway to the time clock

It reminds me a little of our high school:  as you walked through the gym into the freshman wing of the building there was "Danger: asbestos" spray painted on many of the pipes and ducts.  Nice.

Selling our home

For those of you that didn't see my facebook post, we have put our house on the market due to the job search in the Eau Claire area proving futile.  We have to be able to expand my job search nationally and because of the depressed housing market, we decided the first step would be to sell the home.  We don't know how long this will take.  Our realtor told us to expect 100-200 days average.

It has been REALLY hard keeping the house spotless!  hahaha

but seriously,

working night shift is not conducive to trying to sell a home. 

Many a day we wake up after a couple hours sleep and head out to the parks to kill time during a showing.  Plus side:  we have gotten out more and enjoyed nature.  Down side:  taking the dogs out in this horrible humidity.

Here's a couple shots from last week:

Skott took about six pictures of me and Izzy and in all of them she is licking my coffee mug.  Hmmmm, that wouldn't be due to the fact that there was some Rumchata added to the coffee?  She is such a lush....

Here's a link to our listing:

http://www.edinarealty.com/WI/Eau-Claire/54703/homes-for-sale/1028-Omaha-St-61007409