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From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Home Sweet Home
By Kathy Gail Passage

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.
~Anne Gibbons

My husband decided that he needed to remove our old carpeting and replace it with wood flooring. For some reason many of his home improvement projects occur when I am out of town on business trips. This is probably due to the fact that it would be quieter around the house with me out of screaming range. My youngest son's room would probably not have been painted bright blue if I'd been home when that improvement was made. Oh well.

The carpet replacement job was well underway when I left town for a gourmet foodie convention in San Francisco. The old gray carpet was stripped away and safely delivered to the local dump. The work of cleanup and preparation for the new flooring seemed a fairly benign activity to undertake while "Mom was gone" so I wasn't even worried. (Keep reading)

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