A Man Named Kevin

There's been so (clap emoji) much (clap emoji)  happening (clap emoji) with the house over the last 3 weeks that I haven't even had time for a post so here's a post about what happened just this afternoon.

When we moved in January all our rugs got rolled up and taped for travel (as is tradition) and since the new place has carpeting (kinda sorta, nothing to brag about) we have been happy to have the rugs standing in the front coat closet as we tried to discern some sort of design layout for all this chaos. We're on the verge of turning one of the secondary bedrooms (which has been a box storage/tool room) into more of an office space for Brie to use but it's one of the few rooms without carpet, just some 60 year old asbestos vinyl flooring, so the rugs now seemingly have a purpose.

HOWEVER

These rugs all spent 4 years in a 700ft basement apartment with 1+ dogs and all but one of them came from Knoxville and a cat/dog situation. These rugs have earned their combined grime. So today a man named Kevin came to the house from Carpet Cleaning of Fort Washington (Fort Washington is the adjacent county) and gave us an estimate to do professional cleaning on two synthetic rugs and also this priceless heirloom rug that my grandfather hand hooked like 40 years ago and certainly I'm in no way absolutely freaked out and paranoid about having a dude named Kevin carry away and clean.

Yadda yadda yadda, $500 later Kevin leaves with our rugs and in 9-14 days (a very specific yet confounding number of days) will drop them back off and see how my grandfather's rug is doing. Melodramatic I know.

While this was going on Brie continued her now second straight day of scoring and soaking this ancient wallpaper so she can peel it.

S.



Comments

  1. Blaine C. MarieMarch 15, 2022 at 5:47 PM

    The man named Kevin coming THROUGH! Killing it with this wallpaper work, Brie.

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  2. Brent R. Coyle, M.D.March 15, 2022 at 6:00 PM

    Good to have you back. I've been missing the journey. I'm hopeful for the end result for Kevin and you all. The sweat and tears make for good memories later.

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