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Last week was cold, this week it’s hot and humid! Strange Weather

September 23, 2009 by Tricia

It’s hard to believe that today is the second day of Autumn! It’s 27 C outside and with humidity if feels like 35 C (95 F). Now those are summer temps!

The weather’s been so weird this year. Last week it was getting so cool at night (6 C (42 F) that I was thinking about bringing in my tropical plants like the Orchids, passion flower, jasmine and other vines and putting the patio furniture away for the rest of the year. We even took the air conditioners out of the windows last Sunday so that the house would be warmer. LOL and now we’re having a mini heat wave!

It’s been so humid in the house that the chewable calcium tablets that I put out each day to remind me to take them have gotten all wet from soaking up the humidity! That’s a first!

I guess I shouldn’t complain about humid weather though … I heard that people in some parts of Colorado had snow yesterday! With any luck we won’t see snow here until December or late November at the very earliest.

How’s the weather in your area?

Just had a little scare

September 10, 2009 by Tricia

I just got an email that made me both scared and relieved at the same time! My brother, the one who lives in Vancouver, does a lot of work in the US. Earlier this week he was in Seattle and he was hit by a car while crossing the street! Yeah, that’s the part of the email that scared the heck out of me!

Luckily for him (and I guess the driver) he was only knocked over and bruised up. His back and neck are a little sore too so he might end up having whiplash. Of course he was taken to the hospital right away so all of his injuries were taken care of an documented just in case he decides he wants to find a Seattle personal injury lawyer.

We aren’t the suing kind of family, but as it turns out the driver of the car that hit him was impaired and ended up being charged with a DUI. That really ticked my brother off … people who’ve been drinking just shouldn’t get behind the wheel of a car! I mean, my brother could have been killed! So yeah, he’s thinking about suing the guy. I don’t know if he will or not, but it’s on the table right now.

The boys were doing yard work today

August 30, 2009 by Tricia

My husband and his cousins were busy working outside today. They were digging a drainage ditch at his cousins house so that the backyard won’t flood anymore. They worked all day – until about 8 pm! Digging in heavy clay! Man, they won’t need any weight loss pills with the amount of calories they probably burned today!

The job isn’t done yet either. I guess Chris might go back next weekend to help too.

When we first moved into our house we had a bit of a drainage problem in our backyard too. When it rained we’d get huge puddles near the back steps and the back of the house. We have a dry basement, but if we hadn’t done something about the drainage problem shortly after we moved in (2001) we’d likely have a wet basement by now!

I can’t remember exactly what we did, but it involved digging a trench from the back of the house into the middle of the yard and making sure that the trench was on a slight downward grade away from the house so that excess water would flow away from the foundation. We filled the trench with screening (fine gravel) and then soil … after digging out the clay soil which was probably causing the problem in the first place. We haven’t had a problem since!

Hopefully when the guys get done with Chris’ cousins backyard drainage problem it will be as good as ours turned out to be!

Have you ever had to deal with a drainage problem in your yard? What did you do?

My neighbors are so dumb …

August 22, 2009 by Tricia

Oh my God! My Redneck neighbors are sooooo dumb!

How dumb are they? Well, they’re half moved out of the house next door, but they’ve only been back once since last Saturday when they spent the day moving at least half their stuff out of the house. Not the best move when you consider that they left stuff on their front porch!

My husband was talking with their next door neighbor earlier today and while he was standing on her porch he got a good look at the Redneck neighbors porch and low and behold there was a small TV, several car accessories, some tools and a bike!

We live in a pretty good neighborhood, but they’re just asking to have their stuff stolen!

Dumb Rednecks!

Redneck neighbors moved! Well, almost …

August 19, 2009 by Tricia

I was so happy last Saturday when I got up that I was almost jumping for joy! Why … well, the Redneck renter neighbors next door had a truck outside and it appeared they were haphazardly loading it up to move!

Figures they’d pick, what was up to that point the hottest day in the year (Monday was the hottest) to move!

I was so happy! You see, we knew they were moving but whenever we’d ask them when they’d always say they weren’t moving out until the end of the month. I always thought they were kind of lying as it was obvious that they already had control of the other house and were painting it and slowly moving some of the things they could carry by hand or car over the last month.

It wasn’t until the evening that I knew for sure that they probably weren’t going to be back at the house much … you see they took their window air-conditioner out and packed their BBQ into the van. Yeah!

Oh and what terrible movers they were! It seems like they didn’t prepare their move by getting boxes or disassembling furniture or even moving things to one room of the house for an easier move … things came out one by one, in bags or in fully assemble states. The last van load that I saw they put their big couch in upside down and jammed their barbecue in beside it. If they’d turned the couch upright they could have put boxes or small items on top of it … but because they put it in so badly they could only put two things in the big truck???? DUMB.

Anyway … I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to be moving over the weekend. Just going outside coated you in sweat because the temperatures were so high as was the humidity. They were just dripping sweat. I’m sure an acne treatment is in their future!

So … the redneck neighbors still have some furniture in their house. Maybe they’ll get the rest this coming weekend … but for our peace of mind, they’re as good as gone and oh … we have our driveway back! No more big boat of a car blocking the whole lane way! Yeah!