Here's how the past few days have gone:
Thursday, the sprinkler guy came to fix our ancient broken sprinkler system. He had to run new wires from the control panel out to the valve boxes. Fun! And the sprinklers still sucked because our water pressure's strangely low lately.
Friday, we discovered a ginormous black widow by the basement door (uh, the *broken* basement door, damn it; gotta fix that soon). It is the size of a Volvo. It is the size of Kentucky. I am pretty tolerant of bugs and such, but this monster was just wrong. It does not belong in my HOUSE.
Saturday, the nice exterminator came by and took care of it. Saturday night, as we were settling in to bed, an assassin bug bit my stomach. Argh! I know they're beneficial and chow down on lots of other bugs, but it does not belong in my BED. So that night we thought, hmm, perhaps our plan to go to Africa for a while is not going to work out so well. I hear there are bugs there.
Today, we learned that that ominous rumbling sound we'd been hearing for a few days is actually a ginormous leak in our water main. Oh, so that's why our water pressure has been low... Our water is currently shut off, and the plumber set up a temporary line to our neighbor's water. Still need to get some more opinions, but it looks like we're going to need to dig up the front yard and replace the main. Hmm, Africa is also not known for its fabulous plumbing.
So what we're going to do is just sell everything and move to Iceland. That is looking like a more and more reasonable option every day.
2 comments:
Yes, Iceland is the only reasonable option.
LOL, poor you! This laughter is not meant regarding the events, but the way you say them--the bugs love you, obviously.
Darned pipes, I really feel for you. We bought house that has become what I think of as loaded with surprises, this said in a very wry tone of voice. I'm trying to be positive, but when you're looking at bare wires shoved behind a light fixture in the bathroom, I can think of Iceland is an option *g*
Anyway, I wanted to see if you were going to flash this weekend? We've (wolf and others) somehow fallen into a rally the troops mode for LH and getting everyone we know to Flash at LH on August 1st, but are also doing some trial runs leading up to the big day, if you're up for it. It's been too long since we all flashed together! C'mon, it'll be fun *g*.
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