You just knew it, didn't you?

[feng_shui_house]

I got up at 7:30am and dressed in non-working clothes because the pool guys were really and truly going to come...well, did a few chores, including moving a couple tarps to use to catch dirt when they dig & heard trucks around 8:15. Big trucks. Trash men, I think with a faint and fading hope...Many big trucks. I went to the front & couldn't even open the gate to pick up my empty recycling bin until I asked one of the workers to move a big flexible pressurized pipe out of my way. The sewer pipe refitters, whatever they are DOING for the 5th(at least) time in front of my house are here with 4 Huge Trucks directly in front of Ehouse and stretching to either side. I asked the man who moved the pipe & he told me they'd be 3 or 4 hours. I hope the trash men get through.

I was considered calling pool guy to warn him & decided not to, because what if the pipe guys get done sooner? What if pool guy can park down the street & start anyway. I come in from snapping a series of photos of the truck parade to see a message flashing on my phone.

Pool Guy. Apologizing. A pipe broke on the job they did yesterday. They have to go drain a big pool and fix it. *SIGH* I returned his call & he swears up, down and sideways that they will come on Monday & work all week straight on Ehouse's pool.

*****Ehouse, what gods hath thee offended?*****

Shall go put the tarps back & change into working clothes. Later.

On the GOOD NEWS front, last night I found in my mailbox another box of Czechoslovakian Gluten-Free goodies from vjezkova AYAYYAYAYAYYAY! Thank you so many!

Also, my tomato bushes are starting to get the hang of things. I just collected enough to make a nice salad for lunch.

Comments

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Grrr! Sounds like those gremlins are working overtime over at EHouse.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

*nods* The sewer guys are STILL here. Started at 8:15 add 3 or 4 hours. It's going for 4pm. I'm HOPING they get done before Monday.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Gods are definitley behaving the wrong way! Poor Ehouse, poor you!*Hugs*
Also a sudden downpours doomed our very promising hay harvest. What we have now is hectars of rotten something...
Ah, goodies - I hope these are your favourite ones! :-) Good for nerves!
My tomatoes have the first blossoms:-)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry about your hay. All that work! Makes you feel like planting something else in that field next year. *sigh* Maybe the rotten hay when plowed in will make good fertilizer and next years crop will be STUPENDOUS.

The goodies are lovely! I put them in the fridge to keep myself from eating them all at once. Thank you so much. :^)

I'm hoping my tomatoes can continue to survive the heat- it's already theoretically hotter than they can set fruit (their ovaries shrivel, but I deliberately bought heat-tolerant types. This is a pretty good overview of what usually happens to me- I get a lot of blossom drop. (The low temp for the last month hasn't ever dropped below the 'too high' range.)

http://gardening.about.com/od/problemspest1/a/BlossomDrop.htm

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

Wow! Homegrown fresh tomatoes--yummmm! Oh, for god's sake, ehouse, will you get your act together? You were supposed to be turning over a new leaf.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Ehouse also stands for Evil. *sigh* I'll just keep plugging away and hope to get everything fixed up before the first things start falling apart again. :^P

Pobrecita!

[themadblonde]

You really do have a burden of a house there.

Re: Pobrecita!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

If it wasn't for Bad Luck, Ehouse would have no luck at all. I have been meaning to send some packages (I *think* it's you I was sending the Blake cane bits...) but the USPS home pickup only works if you have at least one package Priority or better. I had only one package I wanted to send that way, but being foreign it needed a special form, so I used the USPS website to request the form which took ages to get here and then when I went on the website to try to do it a couple days ago it turned out that although it SAID I could use the online postage paying, it wouldn't do it for this country (after I filled out all the information) and I have to go to the post office in person, so I thought I would at least use the online label printing (without postage paying), but it turned out that only works for PCs.

*sigh*

And right about then the pool guy called & SWORE they were coming all this week. The previous promise had been either the beginning of last week, or the end of the week before that....

I am sorry the pool got drained & all the little tadpoles killed for nothing... although I admit they didn't go to waste, I saw grackles eating them.

Seriously...

[themadblonde]

your house has anti-luck, or as we who know her say "Janet luck." Hope things improve after the storms.

Re: Seriously...

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I hope so. *sigh* The weather has cleared up but the pool guys aren't coming, mainly because one of them isn't going to work. I don't know whether he's called in sick, or skived off.