Mostly House Work

We saw our first robin for the season on Thursday.

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WS left yesterday morning for Kansas to attend his mother's memorial. She was cremated and didn't want a funeral, so the family is holding a memorial on Monday - it would have been her 80th birthday.

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I wish I could have gone to the memorial, but I have finals on Tuesday, Pet-sitting until Sunday night, the cleaning crew for the attic is supposed to be on Monday, and the contractor for the basement is supposed to call on Monday, so I am here instead.

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I am taking next week off work to "supervise" the cleaning crew coming in for the attic (they figure 3 days). I also have to be here to finalize arrangements with the contractor (we finally got someone to do the work on the basement). I'm hoping that both projects will be completed next week and then we can call the carpet people in. After that, it will be arranging for a contractor for the bathroom ceiling, which is a victim of the problem in the attic. We think, we have someone to do it (depends on what insurance decides the job is worth), but arranging it will be another problem entirely.

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Dealing with insurance companies sucks. They are not very forthcoming about the process. Even when I ask point-blank what I need to do, I don't get an answer. When they give me an answer, it seems to exactly the opposite of what the paperwork says - so I still have no idea. Can't even cash the checks for the basement - the adjuster told me one thing, the checks say the complete opposite. So I am stuck in a Catch-22.

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Enough whining for now. Tomorrow will be about floods and gardening (I'll leave you in suspense as to whether they are related or not).

Comments

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Wish I could send our insurance agent up to you--the one who came to pull my car out of the iced-up driveway a couple of months ago. Hope WS's trip goes well. Good luck and hugs!