Help from many directions!

Help from several sources.

We have been so honored! Many people have come forth to help.
The Ecoscape crew had 6 guys and a Ditch Witch working for
almost 4 hours to clear the mud from the barn. You can actually
see the floor. Now we have only the corners to clean.

Marti came and took out many loads of mud from the freezer
room. She found all sorts of stuff buried under the mud, some
retrievable and some not. She did yeoman duty!

Another day Erin came. She worked on the SE corner of the barn.
She found goodies there, too. Most notable were the box of sea
shells that we brought back after Robert's folks died. This is
the best of the best that his folks had collected over a twenty
year period from Sanibel Island in Florida. They survived. She
also found their sand collection, most of it in tact. Some had
lost their labels so aren't going to stay in the collection.
There is still much clean up of them to do.

The work continues. Connie and Carl are coming today to help.

Yesterday the County came and carefully looked at our barn and
its precarious situation. They have told us they'll bring Jersey
barriers for the west and north sides of the barn and position
them in such a way the water of the next flood should be diverted
from the barn. The barriers will be placed and the sand bags
relocated against the barriers. They also will finish cleaning
the mud from the sides of the barn and will take away the huge
pile of dirt and debris that sits in the barn yard.

All of the above has made our lives much better. Robert doesn't
show depression, but I know I have been terribly depressed at the
seemingly insurmountable job of the clean up. It seemed we would
be spending the rest of our lives on the barn and I was decidedly
unhappy about that. One never knows what is coming next in your
life, but if you are in your 80s and in Robert's case struggling
with a chronic disease that is eventually terminal...but in the
meantime robs you of any stamina you might have had, spending
so much on the barn is hard.

Now, the tunnel is still long, but there is light peaking
through!