As 2017 comes to an end, I sit and reflect on the past 365 days. 2017 brought me more tears and sleepless nights than I’ve ever had in my life.
January we were supposed to be flying through building our home, yet our property was under water. We were halted by the water seeping from the Highland Canal onto our property. It took a full year of fighting, pleading, begging and bargaining with our county to come fix our HUGE issue from this ditch.
March 7th took my sweet Daizee. I still can’t even think of my sweet girl without my eyes loosing their cool. Mark ended up with major back pain toward the begining of the year. He ended up needing back surgery and was scheduled in late May. He was out of commission for 8 weeks.
By June, our property was drying up, yet we found mold under our home from all of the water.
In August, we started our journey as full time campers and the girls started at their new school. Mid August Mark broke his wrist and sprained his ankle.
September 11th took my dear Buddy Boy. That boy had my heart and it is still broken for him. September 22nd Mark agreed to let me get Lilly. Our family was once again with a sweet loving pet.
October, November and December have flown by with amazing progress on our house. The nights have been short, but Mark is still out working every evening and weekend on it. His drive amazes me.
Washoe County was at our property for the past week filling in the highland canal issue we were having. The results are wonderful and we can’t wait for them to put the finishing touches on it. We are so grateful that our determination paid off. I was told by them at least ten times that the ditch wasn’t their (Washoe County) problem and that we had different issues. Mark and I never gave up because we knew where the real problem was. My meetings with county officials were always very stressful for me. I felt like it was my family’s livelihood that was at stake. Nobody seemed to care on the county side. At one point, I actually started crying while talking to them because I felt so helpless, yet knew it was so important. They just didn’t get it. We are so happy that this year ended the way it did. We feel like we can finally close this chapter.
2018 is going to be our year. I am hoping that we can start to tackle our mold issue and move on from this whole water problem.
We are starting the year with a young and healthy little pup. She doesn’t replace our sweet angel dogs that we lost, but her snuggles and kisses sure help.
Plenty of great things happened in 2017 too. I just feel like the bad over shadowed the good. I am so grateful that I have our amazing family and our health. Our house is coming together, and hopefully all of the big hurdles are over.
I welcome 2018 with great big open arms. Happy New Year to you and your family from ours!
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