Postby Lilac » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:39 am
I have been working on this house for the last 2 days. Tomorrow is my dental appt to have the implant work done. I'm suppose to be there at 1:45 and they plan to start at 2:15. Supposedly the implant work only takes 20 minutes. I wanted the house clean and laundry caught up, so that I can rest without looking at things that need done. Dgd21's fiance called tonight to see if he could come tomorrow or Friday to spray the house. I was happy to say tomorrow would be fine if it was before noon. He will be here at 11.
Talked to dd2 tonight and the girls get out of school tomorrow at noon and don't go at all Friday for conferences. So they have an early start to spring break. I told her I have my appt so can't watch them tomorrow. She asked if I could watch them for part of the day Friday and I agreed. I haven't seen them for 10 days and miss seeing them.
We went out for supper tonight to the Italian restaurant and were disappointed. We had Chicken Promodora. It had chicken, large penne pasta and a sauce. It was in a bowl with a spoon. More like soup than anything else. Dh told me that my Italian dishes were much better than theirs. We had went to IHOP Monday morning for breakfast and their pancakes were tough and tasteless. I use the Krusteaz brand pancake mix and they are good.
On Monday Feb. 19, I had a long post that didn't post. I never got around to redoing it. On that Sunday night about 8:15 the doorbell rang repeatedly. I looked out the peephole and it wasn't any family. I could tell whoever it was, was frantic. I opened the inside door and she opened the storm door and came in. It was our Asian neighbor lady who speaks no English. She kept pointing to our backyard and then would hold her hands high and then wide. I don't know how I came to the conclusion from that, that there was a fire, but I hollered to dh that his garage was on fire. Her and I headed for the sliding doors and dh flew up the stairs 2 at a time. It was not our garage on fire but our fence. It charred 9 pickets and 1 post. Several of the pickets had burnt up about 8 inches, from the bottom. Our house does not have a light to the patio from the sunroom. You have to walk across the patio, use a key to open his garage and turn on the light. I have always wanted him to put a motion light there. He does have a motion light on the southwest corner but with the patio cover, you have to be in a certain place for it to work. Anyway I managed to get the hose hooked up and he put the fire out. The neighbor man was on the other side of the fence talking to her. About an 8 x 8 ft. patch of their grass had burnt. Their storage building was on the other side of the fire and we don't know how it kept from burning. I guess they think it is our fence because they should have hooked up a hose and started trying to put it out. It had been really windy for several days. I had a bunch of flower pots with perennials in them between the fence and the cement walkway that surrounds the garage. Something airborn must have landed there and started the fire. All the rectangle planters that held plants melted. This couple never has lights on in their home at night. If they had not noticed it and let us know, we wouldn't have known anything until the whole fence was blazing and the firetrucks pulled up. So dh has taken the fence down and has steel fence posts, the pickets and railing bought plus the concrete for the holes. When he was taking the fence down the neighbor guy helped. That was Saturday. The wind has blown ever since until today. So dh will start on the holes on Friday. When dh was taking down the fence the guy pointed to the 16 ft. of fence that connects to his house and said I pay. Dh will just charge him for that and not half of the fence. That is what I love about my dh, he will never cheat anyone or take advantage of anyone.
Dh has to be at the dentist office the whole time I am there. Dgs13 has been coming here after school this week, since basketball season is over and track hasn't started. Today I told him that we might not be home when he gets here but I showed him where I will leave a key. I hope we are home at least shortly after he gets here.
I plan to buy groceries in the morning, so I don't have to get out for a few days, if I don't feel like it.
Well it's late, so better head to bed.