If you like a YouTube channel that follows a Home Renovation theme, then I suggest you check out Elysia's channel. One of her latest videos is called "We are so over this!" 😂 I get frustrated with restorations too, so I can relate.
I must confess, I have only recently found their channel. I've been watching for roughly three months. I enjoy the content and becoming acquainted with a small part of their lives.
With me, I'm a little more in-depth than just skin care, makeup and reading books. Home renovations are my life's bread. Oddly enough, no one ever expects that from me.
I'm currently channel-less.
There is another channel coming, I'm just not sure what KIND. Is it going to mimic my last channel? A family vlog? My children are not little anymore, now they are in their twenties and living their own lives. It can't be about the farm life, I sold it. I'm not even living in the same state. I call Florida home now.
No, this next vlog will have a different theme, entirely.
When I know, You will know.
At the moment, my crew of 62 is near Punta Gorda & Ft Myers Florida, helping families clean up their properties from Hurricane Ian's aftermath of destruction. I'm living in a toy hauler RV with my 25 year old, married, daughter and 14 other women (2 are married to other people in my employ). I also have 10-15 guys living in 5 of the other RV's we brought with us. That's in each. 10-15 depending on beds. My RV has the most places for folks to sleep but my daughter insisted that the females bunk together.
That's not all we brought. 5 eighteen wheelers carrying food, water, tents, tarps, chainsaws & more. 3 backhoes, 4 dump trucks, a diesel tanker truck, humans to be "boots on the ground". The devastation is real. I'm not down here for an insurance payout, FEMA is not my employer. I'm self employed. It's not my normal cup of tea but I'm doing this out of the kindness of my heart. I'm not asking for donations, I am paying for this out of pocket.
My daughter Allie and I got into a screaming match yesterday when she wanted to know where the forms were to bill insurance companies. She thinks I have lost my mind. LOL! I made the damn money, I can spend it where I want too. Granted, she was four years old when I adopted her & her sisters but I've never let anyone dictate what or why I'm going to do something. Case in point ... Her adoption. Everybody told me to wait until they were all 17, so I would continue receiving social security because BOTH of their parents died. I didn't want to wait and adopted them at 1,5,10 & 14. (The other 5 adoptions came at a much later time & were all when each turned 17.) I didn't need the government dictating what I could or couldn't do. Not the best action, on my part. I had to really bust my ass to give them a half way decent life.
I barely survived the teenager years. I think each one was trying to kill me by driving me crazy. And Now my minion wants answers for something that's none of her business. Laughable. Allie is still angry, I see it in her mannerisms & in her eyes. I printed out some blank work orders so she can have something to document. They will probably be burned or buried in the trash. I'm thinking about letting her run it the way she wants to and going home. I wake up tired. All this is a little too much for me. My heart aches for everyone who lived through hell on earth. People that left their homes are coming back to hell. You're lucky if your house is still standing. People are having to deal with intruders invading their space just to steal what they can. It's sad.
Not only are most people not covered by flood insurance but they have no choice, they have to clean up their homes, let them air out, most don't have a job left standing so they have zero income and looters come at night to try and steal what little they have left. When you're a single parent with 2 kids, you're all living in a tent in your yard and the weight of the world is on your shoulders ... The last thing you want to worry about is clean drinking water & where your next meal is coming from.
Folks can stop by our tent, have a hot meal & a cool drink. Tell us what kind of help they need. Pick out as many of the donations as they want. Most of the time we even take them, their donations and cases of water home. Their name gets added to a list with rough directions and we can usually send our volunteers or another volunteer group over, the same day. We are NOT the only people to bring equipment with us, to help perfect strangers manage the worst days of their lives. Central & South Florida can always use more kind hearted souls.
I'm not doing that much because of my disability. Multiple Sclerosis. When I say my heart aches, that's literal. It's a physical pain. I'm not accustomed to MY heart aching. I'm sure it's my blood pressure pills aren't working for me. I tried to tell the doctors that I needed a beta blocker too. For a decade, I took a BP pill with a beta blocker, they never did tell me why they switched it up. When you're use to superior health care from EMORY in Atlanta and switch to less than stellar care at UF Health.... *sigh*
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