Monthly Archives: November 2008

Couch Warranty

11 November 2008

Ok so back in Feb ’07 when our apartment building caught fire and soot got on everything..  One of the things that was most affected by it was our couch.  It’s an oversized micro fiber suede couch.  Well soot got all over it and it got really messy.  Of course our Stainsafe warranty didn’t cover the damages because it was an ‘incidental’ damage.  In otherwords since the fire was someone else’s fault and we just got some soot on it from their fire, it’s not covered.  BUT if we dropped a match on it and it got burnt then it would be covered…  Right.  So we were upset because we didn’t even have it a year yet and it was a really nice couch.

Well, fast forward to last week.  One of our lovely cats for some unknown reason, decided to pee on the couch.  Great, thanks jerk.  We had just covered it with a blanket and decided to use it that way.  So fast forward to today.  The first method of getting the pee stain and smell out didn’t work so well.  So we rented a Rug Doctor from the grocery store.  In the process of washing off the pee smell, all the soot came out!!  I mean we’re talking 21 month old soot that had just been in there and causing problems came out!!

The cushions you lean your back on are harder to do the wet vaccum thing to so we decided to just take them off and wash them in the washer and sure enough they look great!  So we’re gonna do the same to the seat cushions too!  It took us this long to do something that simple because we didn’t want to void our warranty and we thought we’d mess up the fabric or something.  How amazing that it was so simple and we waited so long to do it…  But I tell ya, God is so good to us.  He’s just been sending little things to us left and right to help us out and lift our spirits!  This is such a blessing!

Our New Place

3 November 2008

The inside is still being put together, but the outside is gorgeous!  Here are a few pictures of what we see from our balcony.

This is looking to the the left from our balcony

This is looking to the the left from our balcony

This is looking straight out.

This is looking straight out.

This is to the right.

This is to the right.

This is a neat Panoramic view from the porch.

This is a neat Panoramic view from the porch.

The Drive

3 November 2008

We left Wednesday night for Maryland around 8pm.  We drove through the night switching off every few hours, arriving in Aberdeen around 3pm on Thursday.  After checking into the hotel we went and finished the papers for our lease and then went to bed!  The next morning I went for my orientation at work and moved in the essentials for the night.  The next day, 4 people from a local church came by to help us move in.  It was a tiring process, having to carry everything up 3 flights of stairs to the 3rd floor.  Here are some pictures of the last few days.

Michelle and I in the truck

Michelle and I in the truck

The colored trees as we drive through Maryland.

The colored trees as we drive through Maryland.

Anna brought her own dinner from Florida.

Anna brought her own dinner from Florida.

Bubba longing to be chasing squirrels.

Bubba longing to be chasing squirrels.

Pieve wasnt ready to wake up!

Pieve wasn't ready to wake up!