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Well, since it is true that life has to go on....
It's been over 2 years since I had to say goodbye to Twiggy, and I had to allow life to go on. Twiggy lived a great life until her body just gave out, and the cycle of life is the cycle of life. I know she is looking down from the Rainbow Bridge with Digger and Babaloo, watching how Scruff has come in and capably taken over all her jobs now that she has retired.
So, it's time to move ahead, and as such, I give you Scruff.
So far home ownership has been a joy. Despite the water tank crapping out 2 weeks after the title transferred, it is such a good feeling to do work on MY house instead of THEIR house. Like, the front of the house had these awful shrubs, overgrown, just plain nasty. I wanted them out. They are gone, laying in the woods out back where these deer can feed on them.
There was a guy working on my neighbor's roof a couple of weekends ago. As I went outside he asked "You don't have any desire to sell that van, do you?" And my reply was "Well, slick, this is your lucky day." So we worked out a barter where he would remove the 15 shrubs from the front of the house, fix the back gutters, which included cutting out 18 feet of rotted wood, screwing on a new fascia board to mount the gutter to, and putting the gutter on. It sounds simple but it is not. Then on to the back landing, where once the gutters are done I needed a roof built over the landing to match the roof on the screened in patio next to it. And as the card that won the hand, he will install the new French doors I want leading out onto that very landing.
And in exchange for that, he gets the van. He gets the van he wants, I finally get the van out of my yard while getting 4 really annoying jobs done, and everybody is happy. The guy works like a pit bull. He got all those shrubs out in one afternoon, and today he replaced the gutter and framed in the new roof, which he will complete tomorrow. It's a nice change to find a contractor who does what he says.
Home ownership rocks.
