Wednesday

Humpday O grabbin’!

Yesterday I spent the morning doing errands. I wanted to come home and nap. Instead, I drove over to TMP to pay Sean & his trainer. They fixed the vanity light and grounded the AC.

The neighbor was tearing down the rotten section of fence & putting up a new one. I left a note saying we would be back at the house in the evening to pay him for half of it. BW stayed home.

Later we went back over there and Sean came to fix the closet lights. We went over to the neighbor’s and took him on a tour of the house. He refused to let us pay for the fence-saying his yard guys were putting it up & he didn’t know the price. BW said he seemed embarrassed by our offer, even though TM had always done that with neighbors. She said she offered a number of times & wasn’t going to press it. As far as the vanity light- when I tried it earlier in the day, it worked. They had left one bulb out & the globes off. So I put a new one in & re-attatched the globes. BW said it sparked when she turned it on (with the neighbor). After he left, we asked Sean about it. He said it needed an entire new fixture, that the hanging wire was old & going to fray. That was why they left the bulb out. Later, I tried the light & it worked just fine.

In the meantime,(which is a MEAN TIME), Sean was trying to repair the closet lights. We found another base socket that was damaged and I had to go to Lowe’s to get a new one. Sean started working on another light. He ran into something beyond his knowledge and called his trainer. The guy wasn’t happy with Sean working under the table. Supposedly, he agreed to come the next day & look in the attic to see what that the problem can be & tell Sean how to fix it, but he won’t do it himself. Sean lost power on that wing of the house & couldn’t get it back on… BW was beside herself.

Sean did take down the ceiling fan/light over the breakfast nook & put up a light that matches the new kitchen light. They look great together.

Also, at Lowe’s I bought a can of “Adhesive stripper for concrete” because the patio still doen’t look right. BW is worried that some flakes of the glue have gotten in the pool & maybe ruined things. She messed with the pool sweep all evening.
On the way home, she mentioned “ants with wings” that came out of a tree. OMG! ZS had told us that TM treated the house in the past for termites, but she didn’t keep up with the regular treatments like we did on ours.
And , of course, on the way home, BW mentioned again how she wants to move into the house instead of sell it. Which always sends me into a white-hot silence because I don’t want to argue-it does no good. She can’t think logically, only emotionally about that topic. Of course, in the end, I will go there if I have to. And hate every minute of my life. Ha! (not ha)

Ha, Fatwa.
I don’t want the care and feeding of a cement pond.