Home Work
Much like Debbie, I'm scurrying to get as much as possible in good shape before another winter. There has been many estimate appts with roof/gutter/tree people, and I am SOOOOO sick of walking around the house with yet another, pointing out all the problems. The choices are made, the appointments are made. Now all I need is for it NOT to rain on work days.
Crew to take down monster dead tree and other smaller things set for the 15th. Crew to replace roof, gutters, facia, sophits, on the 20th.
That still leaves me with the water softener problem, the bad drainage problem that allowed 6" of ice on my drive last winter - which was why I could not get him out of here to go to hotel when our house flooded. What happens is we are lower than across the street, and when it all begins to melt, it comes over HERE, then it can't run off, and all refreezes on my driveway that night... each night. Which brings up the OTHER situation: the great fear that in another horrible horrible winter, my main drain could freeze again and flood my house again. I will be ordering things call NEW PIG from amazon, that control water leakage and placing them around the water heater (drain is under water heater) - actually lots of them around the water heater. If anything flies out of that drain, I expect to contain it BEFORE it ruins my bedroom carpet again. I will also put them around the washing machine, so in a drain freeze, washer water will not soak the dining room, tv room and study. But alas, we are broke this year. I still hope to get the new pigs, but the drive way drainage problem....hmmmmm..... I'll just have to work on really howing out the little drain runs I made coming off the side of the drive that let the water off the driveway.
Oh yeah, and I have to resolve the problem about how they built a fence and planted trees and built a deck, all in such a way that there is NO access to the backyard. This time they will be going thru my neighbors yard and taking out part of my fence, but I don't want it to keep happening. I wouldn't let it happen now, if it weren't for fear the tree will clobber my house. They will need to bring in cherry picker, crane, saw bench, chipper, too many trucks - 3 ring circus....
Oh, I got a my crown put on yesterday in the middle of all this, had a foot appt about a weird place on my foot and got Bob his dental cleaning... which... shows I shouldn't be letting him brush his own teeth after all, unless he would like new false ones
All this, just takes away from time I spend with Bob doing therapy and such, so I hate losing that time.
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