Glad it went well, Flyover.
I wish I'd had my camera ready when my little dog was barking at the raccoons. They are bigger than him and were not impressed. Then they saw me and ran. They still keep sneaking in though.
I spent a long time cleaning up. I found my mother's lost engagement ring (it had been in a little jewelry box thing that got knocked down and it had disappeared). I had to throw out the kitchen rug because it was absolutely ruined from all the stuff that oozed out of the fridge and freezer and animals using it as a toilet. Caught the dog peeing on it shortly before I tossed it out the door. I was lazy and swept a bunch of stuff out the sliding glass door. Will need to clear it later but for now it's out of the house. My main goal was to get enough of a pathway that Mom can walk through from the front door to the living room and to her bedroom. I wanted to clean more thoroughly but the lift pump crapped out this morning. Jet pump was humming trying to push water but cistern was empty. A bunch of the breakers in the box were red so my friend reset them and pressed them in and they mostly seem to be working now. My ceiling fan seems to have died- but its over 30 years old. My friend said if we can find a replacement motor for the pump he might be able to fix it.
The parquet floor is trashed. It bubbles up and when you step on it it goes down and pops up in another place. Need to find my father's diagrams with measurements of the kitchen to see how much floor needs to be replaced but it's going to be expensive. If we can't find the motor, that pump is going to be expensive too.
Once the water comes back on I'm going to thoroughly clean the fridge and freezer out.
Meanwhile, my friend's grandfather is doing the offline version of hate-watching my friend. He drove by his house several times yesterday (after being kicked out) and today. Several days ago, my friend told him that he needed to find new living arrangements since we would be getting power back and going home so my brother wouldn't be there to help him get his wheelchair up and down the stairs. Also, my friend is not going to leave his fiance alone with his grandfather while he goes to work bc the grandfather treats her like garbage when he thinks no one is looking. He thinks women exist only to serve men. He also propositioned my friend's mother. There's a 20yr old male friend of theirs that has been coming over and visiting & he has helped with the wheelchair a few times. He's a good kid. Loves babies and had to take care of his younger siblings so he helps out with holding & feeding the baby so the mother can eat, go to the bathroom, and take showers. Another factor about the grandfather is that he saturated the carpet & mattress with urine, wiped his butt with one of their towels (and the crap did not come out in the wash), & left snack wrappers all over so the place was crawling with ants. After being told he wasn't allowed to have food in there, he kept eating in there and leaving wrappers and plates on the floor. He also kept pestering everyone around wanting them to cook for him without actually asking. Saying things like "When are we having those hot dogs?" Me: "What hot dogs? I don't know. I don't eat hot dogs. I don't like them." then he was asking my brother "When am I going to get some eggs & bacon?" & stuff like that. Anyway, when we got power back, my friend told his grandfather it was time to go find someplace else since he couldn't get the wheelchair down the steps without help & he wasn't going to leave his fiance to care for the old man AND the baby by herself. The old man started trash-talking the fiance, trashtalking my friend. The fiance stepped in and told the old man to leave my friend alone. Old man then swore at her and called her trash & told her it wasn't her house so she should shut up. My friend told him not to talk to her like that. Old man shouted that it was my friend's mother's house & they didn't get to tell him to get out. My friend bit his tongue and didn't mention that it's not his mom's house for too much longer. She doesn't know it, but since he is paying the taxes and she hasn't paid taxes on it in years, in 3 more years the house will be his. And his name is already on it so he co-owns it. But neither she nor the grandfather know that. The house was supposed to be left to my friend-- it was what his grandmother wanted, but his mother went in and claimed it bc my friend was a minor at the time the grandmother died.
I digressed... The grandfather insisted that they have the 20yr old move in with them to take care of him. He's never even had a conversation with this kid and wanted him to be his caregiver. Kid was in the next room saying "WTF?" It escalated & the grandfather suggested the fiance was going to cheat on my friend with the 20yr old & my friend broke a closet door & told the old man to GTFO.
The grandfather then got dressed by himself and put his ankle braces on by himself (something he's claimed he couldn't do in the past and has called my friend at 6am demanding he come over and put them on for him), got his shoes on, and left. But he keeps driving by the house and staring. He also likes to drive by where my friend works. When he worked at Autzone and O'Reilly's the grandfather would actually go inside & demand my friend stop what he was doing, leave work, and come do something for him. He tried it at the casino a few times too, but it's a longer drive. He's obsessed with my friend and stalks him.
My friend said the old man can still come over for dinner, but he can't spend the night & nobody in his house is going to be the grandfather's servant.
Oh, I almost forgot: After all the cleaning I went back and packed up all of the stuff Mom had at my friend's house and brought her and her stuff home. My brother helped with unloading thankfully bc my back was killing me. She's using her computer right now. I'm sure she will gripe that I didn't do enough cleaning. Some of the lights weren't working so I couldn't see (the ones my friend had to fix the breakers on).