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So I haven't posted for a long time. A looooong time. Ages. As my readers know, Ben & I have moved. We are now living in Minnetonka, renting an apartment while we wait for our house in Rochester to sell. One of the most frustrating things about the apartment is that the bathroom has too many doors. Sounds weird, but trust me - there are too many.
Also annoying: The fridge has about two dozen little egg holders in the door. I've seen fridge's with them before, and never realized how useless they are until I'd gotten used to having functional space in the door.
In the history of refrigeration, nobody has EVER used those things. Who came up with that idea? Eggs are sold in containers. Why would I take them out of that container and put them in these stupid little cups? WTF?
Down in Rochester, we've had quite a few pretty strong storms come through this summer. We have a huge (about 48" diameter at breast height (DBH)) silver maple next to our house, and need to get a couple of low branches off so they don't crush our house (or the neighbor's), but we want to wait till winter so it'll cost about $800 instead of $1500+. The tree's healthy, so likely if we got a storm strong enough to tear off its branches, we'd have other problems too, but now every time a strong storm comes through I get paranoid. My main concern is that since it's a fast-growing tree, the wood is softer and a bit weaker than, say, a typical oak of comparable size. Realistically, the tree's been there for years, and nothing's happened yet - it should be find for another 4 months, right?
So the insurance guy was just here looking at our roof. Some of you might know that a section of the roof on the porchey addition is squishy under its rubber-mat coverment. We contacted the insurance company, and they sent a guy (from Ohio) to look at it.
The good news is that they'll pay for the repairs. Huzzah! Apparently we have some hail damage on the roof that they'll also repair. So yay for that!
