Thread:Llyssa1020/@comment-35594152-20190531015141/@comment-38558458-20190606061701

Hello Sue! ~  Hey, I'm on my laptop tonight. I needed to go out here and print out a couple of spreadsheets. I see a new Neurologist tomorrow and needed a print out of my current meds and to update my spreadsheet on my migraine history. So that means I get to reply to my friends Wiki message in a right proper way on the laptop. It's 11:41 and I still need to open the game, accept my gifts, send out 1 gift (no TT tonight) and visit all of my friends. Unfortunately I won't be able to do that tonight before midnight. The clock changes and then I will be in a new day. Hold on a minute....okay, I'm back. I just went out and made share I charged your map along with a couple others - lol. It must have been a really slow day and night. I only had 1/2 box of gifts - I thought for sure I would be maxed out at 499. I will accept those later. Got the one gift sent out and I still have 6 minutes before I turn into a pumpkin.

I will have more time tomorrow and this weekend. That is generally when I have the most time is Fri-Mon. However, I am thinking about doing some manual labor either Sunday or Monday. I have a full page list of items around the house that need to get done and I'm not sure how to do them. I'm trying to find a handyman, but that has not been a good experience. I need my patio and house power washed. I brought home my Dad's power washer yesterday and I thought that is something I could do - doesn't really require any knowledge (I did my patio 2-3 years ago). Although, I'm afraid if I do this I will end up back in PT again - I just don't have the upper body strength to handle that type of machine. I've been back on forth all week on whether or not I should contemplate doing this. I sent out an email to 3 businesses today asking them to stop by my home, look at it and give me an estimate. My home isn't in that bad of shape - you actually have to get close up to see the dirt and whatever that mildewish stuff is that happens on the north side (I'm just sort of fussy I guess). My patio is on the Northwest side and it's been cleaned twice in the 6 years I've live here - it definitely needs to be done. It didn't get done last year and I wasn't happy about that. I also sent an email to a handyman I found online. So far, he is the only one who has replied. Hopefully he will call me tomorrow, the other one didn't even show up on Monday. I sent him a text and he said he forgot - asked if he could stop by on Tuesday. I found a review on him and saw where another lady said the exact same thing. However, she gave him 3 chances and he stood her up 3 times. I've decided to just move on to the next one instead. If I end up doing this manual labor, I might not be able to use my arms or whole body for a week - then how would I play the game. I really need to get some quotes and/or a call from this guy tomorrow and get this scheduled.

I also had some repair work done on the Northwest side of my roof - there is about 2 feet of siding that goes up the peak and stairsteps down to my neighbors roof in the other condo. It was pulled away from the side and a screw was hanging out. I'm not sure if that happened during the winter or if it was from all of the spring rains/storm/wind. Anyhow, I had the guy who installed my roof 5 years ago come out and look at it (he does siding too). We were a little concerned that a critter might have got in there - he said there was a little bit of insulation pulled lose. I was thinking a bird or bat. He closed it up and said if there was anything in there, it would probably push it's way out overnight. He recommended that I not open my attic access door (which I never have). The last thing I needed was my two sister cats going crazy over a bat in the house. I checked yesterday morning and it was still sealed up thank goodness! One of the workers came by this morning and restraightened it out going up to the top and sealed it back down. That will be $175 - I was hoping for a $50 type of job, but it was lose and needed to be fixed - he was here for about an hour.

Speaking of critters, I have had an ongoing Racoon problem as well. I have some latice work installed between the ground and my 3 season porch. I have 3 steps going from the patio to the back door and there is latice installed under the landing. The latice here has been pried away from the house. I will hear him either outside trying to get to my finch feeder or up on the roof right around 3 o'clock in the morning. What I need  here is a young man to squeeze under those steps and affix it back to the house - maybe even put some heavy stones or broke up concrete under there to keep the latice in place and keep him out. I was even concerned that the roof issue was caused by him. The roof guy didn't think he could get up there. He was surprised when I pointed to my pergala and said I've recorded him climbing down from the roof, onto my pergala and onto the porch rail. He is a troublemaker and I would like to have him gone. I am not a fan of this racoon. Between him and some of the feral cats I've heard caterwauling around here, I'm worried they might be taking up housekeeping together under my porch and I end up with a CatCoon crossbreed. So my list keeps growing and I don't know who to call. I only have so much money I can work with for right now and I need to priortize what needs to be done now and what can wait.

Well I'm going into the game and play the event room a few rounds before I go to bed. Hugs! ~  Llyssa