Garage Repairs

When our neighbors tree fell in our yard last month it took out a chunk of our garage, too. It fell on a corner of the garage and tore the siding off the top parts of two of the garage walls. The insurance company adjuster said he would give us enough money in the claim check to fix all four sides, if we were smart about negotiating with the home improvement contractor.

The garage was here when we bought the house, so we didn’t have any say in how it was first built, but now that it has to be repaired, we are looking into the different types of vinyl and siding. I was reading about the benefits of vinyl siding over plasterboard and wood, which is more technical than I ever knew. To sum it up, vinyl is best because it lasts a long time and needs almost no maintenance. It doesn’t need to be scraped and painted or stained, like wood. And vinyl doesn’t split, peel or rot. So vinyl is the way to go.

I want to use a company like American Home Craft Inc to do the repair work. This company is fully licensed, bonded and insured, which is important if anything was to go wrong during the job. But American Home Craft Inc has an excellent reputation and uses only only highly trained and certified workers, so we can rest easy that the job will be done by professional who will take the greatest care with our property. I also like the fact that they use only the best materials, and every product has a lifetime manufacturer’s warranty. They care about the environment like I do, and use materials that are environmentally friendly and the most energy efficient products available.

I’m looking forward to having my garage fixed so we can start using it once again.

Used To Like To Clean and Cook

Boy those days are gone.  I even used to clean a few houses to earn some extra money back in the 90’s, it was hard work, but for the most part I basically enjoyed it.  But then again I used to enjoy so many things that I no longer like to do such as, cooking, laundry, working outside of the house.  Guess we all get burned out but I am seriously bummed out about it all.

Hubby insists that when we are better situated in our finances that he will sign us up for a monthly cleaning service that will help make our house more manageable.  There are a few companies out there that you see the little cars in traffic with their mops and buckets all hanging out of the windows, but I never really took the time to check into their services so I set out to do some research on the Internet.

Come to find out – the company that I liked the best, that I could find, doesn’t have an office anywhere close to us, bummer, their site was pretty impressive.  Hubby was watching over my shoulder when I was checking maidpro.com out and he saw where it advertises that they offer franchise opportunities and he jokingly stated that we should check it out since there wasn’t one near us.  So just for grins and giggles I played along.

This Cleaning Service web site answers a lot of questions that can help them assist you in having your residence cleaned by trained professionals and/or to give you information on their franchise opportunities .  They already have well over 100 independently owned locations. You can even get an on-line free estimate, which requires them to call you the next day to verify the information and to give you the quote.

I don’t think I’m ready to open any franchise right now, but if I did I would enjoy researching this opportunity some more.

The Tiller

Hubby is taking his time getting the tiller ready for this year’s planting season and I’m getting anxious to get the ball rolling and the garden planted. If I knew how to do all that was necessary to get the darned thing ready I’d be more than glad to take care of it, but alas I’ve been kept in the dark when it comes to most of the “lawn care” equipment around here and the more I nag the more stubborn he becomes, sigh…..

Driving Miss Daisy

Being a working mother makes it difficult to be able to watch an entire movie. If the phone rings or someone rings the doorbell it is me that gets up to tend to it and I’m always jumping up to get someone something to drink or eat or to switch the laundry to the dryer, etc……

Anyway, I could have sworn that I watched the entire movie “Driving Miss Daisy” years ago, but when I was flipping channels last night and found that this movie was the only thing on, I realized that I had missed most of the movie. Either that or my memory is worse than I though and I just don’t remember the darn thing. I’m glad that I watched it last night, it was a great movie.

Saturdays Used To Be Fun

Remember when Saturdays used to be the day that all week you looked forward to.  It was a fun day full of friends, activities and late night fun.  Now it is all about sleeping a little later than the weekdays, but not too much later because all of the chores that have been building up all week are waiting all for you.

Got most of my chores taken care of for the day, my youngest is having a friend stay the night, which is good because that will keep him occupied, while I tend to his Dad, who is still on the couch!

Today’s horoscope – Libra, that’s me

Libra

October 25, 2012                      I’m Libra

Winning the battle is not nearly as important as just making an effort to win, right now, so push yourself, but not too hard. You don’t have to prove yourself to others, now. You just have to keep doing what is right for you. You have a deep well of untapped potential, but there is no hurry to bring it up to the surface. Just take your time and appreciate the smaller things in life. Those mountains you want to climb aren’t going anywhere anytime soon!