The downstairs carpet isn't even a month old and I've already had to steam clean it. Missy got severely aggitated during a thunderstorm last week and made a mess in the den - twice - both times very runny and all over the place. Uggh!
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The door to the downstairs freezer did not shut properly a couple of weeks ago, which was not discovered for at least 24 hours. I thought everything would be fine since it kept everything at least as cold as if it was in the refrigerator. I was wrong. Now the freezer is empty - the biggest loss was all the hot peppers that I was planning to use in salsa. The second biggest loss was about $150 of meat. Fortunately the freezer wasn't full!
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With the loss of the frozen peppers, I had to buy pepper plants at Agway. I had started sweet pepper plants from seed, but saw no reason to add to the glut of hots. Of course, being so late in the season, the pickings of plants were rather slim - only cayenne peppers were available. Beggers can't be choosers though (and I do have a few peppers still in the upstairs freezer).
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Speaking of sweet peppers - the leaves are skeletons. I don't know what is eating them, but they are having a nice meal! About every sort of nasty insect there is is in top form this summer. We have aphids on everything, whitefly, thrips, cane borers, ants (which I don't care what anyone says - they will kill plants as fast as any other bug), some sort of worms as well as curl-leaf worms, and a myriad of other things. Can't find a ladybug to save my life; usually we have plenty to help out. Spiders aren't as plentiful as last year either.
Something ate my leeks to the ground and now my onions are disappearing. I can hardly wait for the Japanese beetle invasion this year!
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Another vacuum has tried to bite the dust. I have to figure out if I can fix it since it had only a one year warrantee and it has been 15 months.
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Hey, and to complete the saga on the shelves for the pantry (which was a while ago, but I never let you know the final outcome), I never did get new shelves. The company refused to talk to me anymore. They wouldn't even contact the HD rep about my case any more. WS finally ended up making me some shelves.
Good grief! It's enough to drive one to drink. Better luck in the future. *hugs*
Posted by: Cop Car | June 25, 2007 at 10:50 AM
Bogie,
I'm so glad I'm not riding under your cloud! It seems bad luck follows you around. You need to get a Feng shui expert in your house....and get the bad vibes out,,,,and let the good stuff enter. I keep asking myself...what next?
Wishing a whole lot of good luck goes your way!
Posted by: Matty | June 26, 2007 at 11:24 PM
Fortunately, our bad luck is of the smaller variety - more exasperating than anything (and a bit on the expensive side).
So far our luck has held on the worse things that could happen, so we'll live with it.
Thanks for the good luck wishes!
Posted by: Bogie | June 27, 2007 at 04:09 AM
I was able to fix the vacuum last night - hooray!
Posted by: Bogie | June 30, 2007 at 07:00 AM