Temp Home Sweet Temp Home...

We realized the other day that we've been living with the Delgado's now for 7 months (and as of the revised estimates we received on Friday, if they hold true, it's going to be another 2, for a total of 9 for those too lazy to do the math) and we've never uploaded any photos of the place.  Oddly enough, we catch ourselves calling it home (which is pretty easy, as our home is wherever our small family unit is, which is the two of us and the dogs).

So, prepare yourself to see what only ourselves and the 6 visitor's we've had up here (2 of which helped us move in, and strangely, none of our visitors have ever made repeat visits) have seen.

Behold the "Bunkhouse" (which is what the Delgado's call it):

That's half the place (it's one large 27' x 27' room, so you can get the whole thing in 2 photos :)  We've got our storage on the front left corner which is everything we were able to salvage from the house (of which, about 60% are clothes, towels, and blankets), our living room front and center, and in the front right corner (hidden behind the treadmill) is what un-salvageable items that we still have that we haven't thrown away yet for some reason or another (quite a few childen books that we both grew up with that have our names and other random notes that we wrote in them when we were little).  On the right, that's our bedroom, where the tiny bed close to the door is my quaranteened bed which I relegated myself to for the past 3 weeks when I was fighting a bout of the infamous "Jim Virus."

Then, there is the back half of the place. The left door goes to Annabel's room, otherwise known as the bathroom (our dogs got spoiled from the cold hardwood floors at our house, Annabel more so than Carson due to her thicker fur, so she pretty much lives in there, as the rest of the place is carpet).  Back center is our kitchen, where we've mostly given up on cooking, as we've had to throw away our groceries more times than we've liked (once after the fire, once after the hurricane, once after the ice storm, and once again after the wind storm), so we buy them sparingly.  The back right corner is the dining room, which I've taken over as my home office.

That's it.  That's the tour.  A huge thanks goes out to the Delgado's for letting us stay here.  It was a huge relief after the fire to have a place to stay with the dogs (we had other options, but unfortunately, the dogs wouldn't have been feasable at most, as they tend to overstay their welcome fairly quickly for most people (except for my mom, who has become the default "doggy-sitter" when we actually want to, dare I say, go somewhere without the dogs, though, I think she's just about reached her limit :), and even more so that the "Bunkhouse" came completely furnished (which meant, we didn't have to go buy towels, blankets, utensils, toothbrushes (kidding :), etc).

Now, it's time to try and reclaim the beds from the dogs.