I live such an excitatin’ life! Last Firday, da cave had it’s annual termite inspection. It’s also time to retreat for termites. This time around, since I have a new bug company, it will be a ten year contract cause that’s how they do it. The treatment part itself is $990.00, which is enough to make me go :eek:. On top of that the annual renewal is $145.00 after the first year, which is $1215 over ten years, which again makes me all :eek:. All together that’s $2205, again :eek:. Or at least it was all :eek: right after we talked and I signed the agreement. Then I started thinking, when you look at it over ten years, it comes out to about $18.35 a month, which does not make me all :eek:. Da cave gets termite treated on August 24th, provided it doesn’t rain. They drill little holes all around the foundation and such for the treatment, hence it cannot be on a rainy day. So, I need all your prayers, incantations, appropriate/inappropriate appendage crossing’s, mojo or whatever ya got on that day, ok?
What about the tree you ask? Is it termite infested? Why no but it is the other part of the MMP which I shall now get to. Patience children, patience.
As most of y’all know, my job situation over the past two and a half years has been, shall we say, weird. However, ATT is now providing me with a fairly good income and since I don’t have a cave payment anymore (woohoo!) things have been lookin’ up. Thus, I want to redo the floorin’ in the dining room, living room, kitchen and laundry room. So I’ve been doin’ some figurin’ and lookin’ and have decided that I could get this done this Fall for around $2500 bucks, again a figure that makes me all :eek:, but doable. Plus I really do need to get the floorin’ in those rooms redone. So, Firday after I calmed down re the termite stuff, I was feelin’ pretty good and just thinking’ I’m goin’ ahead this Fall with the new floors. Then…… The tree happened.
I have a really nice Bradford Pear tree in the backyard but it’s lookin’ kinda all wonky as of late. As in, might need to get taken down before it falls wonky. I’d take a pic and show y’all if I could remember where the heck my digital camera is hidin’ out. I swear, it’s just disappeared into thin air! Or somewhere inside my computer desk. Anywho, I’m on the back porch all relaxated, beerverage in hand, watchin’ a storm come up. The wind picks up, tree is swayin’ a bit then I hear crrrrrrrrrrack… this is not good thinks I. It’s a biiiiiiiiiig ass limb hangin’ up in the tree. Hangin’ there mind you, too big to yank down, so I will need to get up there with a saw to cut off some smaller branches to get the thing down. OK, I think, I’ll deal but needed to get back inside as it was startin’ to rain. So, back to the porch I go. I hear another crrrrrrrrrack… and there’s a biiiiiiiiiiig ass limb layin’ on the ground. Luckily it fell the one way it could and not hit the awnin’ over the back porch. Now, I’m all worried. Mayhaps instead of worryin’ about new floorin’, I need to get the tree guys (What? I have tree guys, doesn’t everybody?) out to take down that tree plus another Bradford Pear in the front of da cave that’s also near da cave, as it’s startin’ to look kinda wonky too. I’m figurin’ on possible a thousand to twelve hundred bucks for that, another figure that makes me all :eek:.
Le sigh. Looks like no new floorin’ for da bear. Pity me. 
Thus, the joy of homeownership. Just when I think I’m gettin’ ahead, da domicile looks at me and says, “you got another think comin’ then bear!”
Thus endeth the OP. Hijack away!
