The cleaning ladies had done a great job on the kitchen and living room, as well as helping me sort through the personal stuff in the disaster zone. The last good long fuck we all had in the hot tub wasn't too bad either, but that was days ago and now all I had was the memory as I drove home from work to the empty house. I was a bit surprised to see a one ton truck parked in front of the house with a large fifth wheel trailer attached. I pulled into the drive and got out to see who it was.
"Hi. Mister Carlson?" the young lady asked. She looked to be about thirty or so, wearing steel toed boots a grungy T-shirt and jeans. It was hard to tell what kind of body she had under the clothes, besides a thin waist.
"That's me." I said as I took the hand that she held out to me to shake.
"My name is Tina Romburg. Good to meet you. My dad told me I had a special job and pulled me from the one I was on. Said this was one I could really sink my teeth into."
"Well I don't know about that, but I have a real mess here." I said as we turned and walked toward the house. He said he was sending his best manager, I had no idea it would be his daughter. We walked into the house through the front door and then I led her to the disaster zone. We ducked under a hanging tarp, and into the area trashed by the storm. She pulled a small camera from her pocket and quickly started snapping pictures of whole room areas as well as close-ups of the wood work and trim.
"Man… who was the contractor that did this work? This is some really nice detail work."
"Actually I did." I said.
She looked over her shoulder at me. "Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you couldn't, it's just not every day that people take the time to really do it right."
"Well, I built it for my wife almost five years ago. It took me almost two years to do it, started with an old garage slab and build the rest from there."
"Nice job. She's a lucky woman!" She said as she took more pictures.
"She was. Passed away two years ago. Diagnosed with cancer one day and was gone within a month." I said quietly.
She stopped talking pictures and took a step back towards me. "I'm sorry, I didn't know. Don't worry, we'll put it back the way it was. If there are parts you want to do or help with I'd be happy to work with you on it. I'm pretty flexible that way."
"I appreciate that." I said as she walked away again. "So where do we start?"
"Well, I have some prep to do, and then we'll have to do some demo. I'll have a better idea tomorrow when I finish laying it all out." She said. "I'm going to need to park my trailer. Lots cheaper than driving back and forth every day. Is that a good place?"
"Sure that'll be fine. Do you need some power?"
"I have a generator, but if you don't mind I'll run a temporary service for it so I can run the air without you having to listen to the damn generator."
"well anything you need, just give a holler." I said as I turned to head back into the main house.
"One thing." She called, stopping me.
"What's that?" I asked.
"My name is Tina. What should I call you?"
"Mike will work fine." I answered to her smile.
"Thanks. Go ahead and relax. I'll work here a bit more if you don't mind."
"Any time you want. The front door is open so any time you need to get into here, help yourself."
"Great! Thanks!" She said with a big smile.
I headed back into the house and made some dinner while she measured and sketched and photographed on the other side of the big blue tarp. It was pretty warm in the house, even thought the air was running, so I stripped off my shirt while I cooked. It was a quiet meal, but tasty. I had decided that I had enough of the tiny tv in the back so after dinner I went out and got a new thirty inch LCD. The cable company had been nice enough to replace my HD cable box, so I hooked that up and sat back to try and watch a movie while I did some computer work. It was almost ten before I put my laptop aside, deciding for a quick soak in my hot tub. I stripped out of my clothes, thought briefly about digging out a swim suit, which I almost never wore in the tub, and then decided to just wrap a towel around myself and use the tub like I normally would.
I turned the underwater lights on and flipped the cover back before sinking into the hot water. After a hard day at work the hot foamy water is a real relaxer. I had been in for about fifteen minutes and decided it was time to hit the sack, climbing out and heading back inside, using the towel to dry off on the way. I was probably asleep before my head hit the pillow, sleeping naked in the warm room.
The next morning was typically bright and sunny. I was showered and backing out of the driveway the head to work before I saw Tina. She was standing next to her truck, the passenger door open, leaning in digging for something. She turned and waved to me, wearing a pair of red satin shorts and spaghetti strap midriff top that were apparently her pajamas and a pair of untied running shoes. She actually looked very stunning and in the shimmery material, slim waist and nicely rounded hips. She had a nice sized pair of tits making the shimmery material stand out prominently, including two pronounced bumps dead center on each breast. Her arms were muscular and her tank top tan lines made her look even cuter. The gap between her hip hugger shorts and her red top was creamy white with a small silver loop shining from her belly button. Her green eyes crinkled around the edges and she had two prominent dimples on her cute cheeks as she flashed her bright smile to me from only a few feet away. All in all an extremely attractive and surprisingly sensuous package, compared to what I had seen the day before.
I had told her she didn't have to worry about privacy, since I was the last house on a dead end road. Hell, you couldn't even see a neighbor's house from mine, which was just fine with me. I guess it was just coincidence that I backed out the same time she was at her truck dressed this way. Not a bad coincidence as far as I was concerned. I smiled and waved back as I drove off, leaving her to go back into the trailer.
I pulled into the driveway after work to a totally different scene than when I had left. I ended up parking in the yard to avoid the dump trucks that were lined up to be fed by the large piece of equipment that I could only describe as a steel dinosaur. The huge yellow machine was swinging back and forth, taking huge bites out of my house, and dumping the shattered contents into the dump truck. I stood and watched while it literally chewed on a section of wall, breaking the studs and sheet rock into smaller pieces before taking a bite of the debris pile and unceremoniously dumping it into a truck. The whole house seemed to shudder as it grabbed a piece of hanging roof and ripped it off, like a dog shaking some offending stuffed toy. I stood near my suburban and just stared, part of me wanting to cry, as I watched hundreds of hours of work devoured by the metal monster.
"Hell of a thing to have to watch, isn't it?" I heard Tina say. I looked over, not even having heard her walk up.
"Yeah. It's pretty rough." I said quietly. "That wall that it just tore down took me almost three days between framing, wiring and sheet rock. It turned it into splinters in seconds. Not to mention all that oak flooring that is getting trashed."
"I feel for you. I had to watch my whole bedroom get put in a truck when I was a kid. Lost all my stuff in the fire. I guess this is even worse."
"Yeah. I think so. I used to be a fireman, and I know how hard it was for people to watch their stuff burn, but this…"
"I understand." She said, placing her hand on my back. "If you want to come sit in the trailer so you don't have to watch, you can. They'll be at it for about another hour or so."
"Thanks, maybe in a while." I said as I leaned against the front of my truck and watched a section of wainscot woodwork get dropped into the truck. I felt her hand leave my back as she walked back toward the trailer to continue whatever work she was at. I must have stood there almost half an hour before I finally walked over to the trailer and knocked on the door.
"Hey, Come on in!" Tina said as she opened the door and saw me standing there.
"I decided to take you up on your offer." I said as I stepped into the trailer. It was a nice layout. I could see a bedroom in the front over the hitch, a bit of a low ceiling, but not bad otherwise. The room I stepped into was a nice sitting room with a recliner , a table with a couple chairs and a nice TV mounted on the wall. There was a little kitchen that looked well stocked and set up and down a short hall was a work room with papers and pictures spread across the table. I presumed there would be a bathroom in between as well. "Nice little place you have here."
"Thanks, It's not huge, but a lot better than a motel room. Would you like to sit?" she asked, offering me the recliner.
"Thanks!" I said sitting down.
"It's gotta be hard to see all your hard work getting torn down like that."
"Yeah, pretty much."
"Once we start building it back it should be a bit easier."
"I hope so. I've had too much hard shit in my life the last couple years."
"I guess so. You said your wife passed away."
"Yeah. She wasn't feeling well, we thought she had a flu bug. They diagnosed her with pancreatic cancer and she was gone less than three weeks later."
"Wow. That's rough."
"It was a bit of a shock. I guess I'm finally starting to get over it, but it has been pretty lonely around here."
"Have any kids?"
"Just one. She's married and moved half way across the country. I do get to see my granddaughter once a year or so."