I have been absent from this blog for quite some time. Mostly because life has been particularly eventful and not always in a good way.
The first bit of September saw strong storms here in Michigan and a large tree limb fell on our house, pulling down the power line, nearly ripping it from our electric meter, ruining the chimney cap, tearing off some shingles, tearing down the cable line as well. It took a month of fighting with the power company to finally get them to deal with cutting the dangling limb off the power line just so we could use the insurance money to repair the house.
There are still branches in the backyard due to us not having a chainsaw and we have friends who do but they are just as busy as we are and I am patient enough to wait until it suits them.
The house is fixed, the power line is fixed, we have installed a breaker box and gotten rid of the old fashioned screw in fuse box, the cable line is back up and we have internet again. The contractor even fixed our broken hall light which hasn't lit up in years...no idea why other than he said whoever wired it buggered it all up. Which was what he found with the fuse box as well. Although, he said it had been purposefully buggered so as to bypass some of the meter sometime before we moved in.
Jon has been slowly working on fixing our broken gutters and missing downspouts. They have been missing/broken since we moved in but we are trying to fix things the best we can. It has been slow going.
My car is back on the road. It needs new tires. The year of sitting did them no good and they are kind of dry rotted and basically ruined, not that the tires were new or wonderful when the car was crashed. They were passable. Before it snows much, I need new ones. I've already had a flat in one of them and had to have it repaired because, of course, it happened when I was flat broke and couldn't have afforded a new tire even if I'd needed one.
I had to have one of my cats euthanized. Not one of my best days. She was old, suddenly ill, and one morning, we went to the emergency vet and they said she was too ill to test for things, and that was that. I decided and we buried her in the back yard. Poor Zsa Zsa. I couldn't watch her suffer anymore.
This morning I am skipping work due to being ill with some sort of cold or something. I don't know. I'm feverish and really didn't think I was up to my job. I'll live. I was trying to nap but the dog decided to bark threateningly at the mailman she perceives as evil and then Jon called me to check up on me. Sweet of him, but hard to sleep with all the noises.
Jon and I went to Ohio to visit my parents a couple weekends ago. Only for the weekend, which was too short, but it was a nice visit. I hope there is not much snow this winter so I can go back to visit for a longer period without worries of driving in super dangerous conditions.
This weekend has been a good one. We picked up sticks in the front yard, went to lunch, made food, went shopping for groceries, looked in the antique shops, had some coffee, and basically hung out. Sounds uneventful, but was pleasant and full of laughter. I bought some goofy glow in the dark teeth that, once I get and carve a pumpkin, are meant to be jammed into it, lol.
Jon reformatted the computer. It had some virus on it that caused all sorts of things and we found the system disks and poof! Virus no more. Much better. Weird, having to re-download Mozilla and get rid of Internet Explorer. Also strange having no bookmarks.
My cat is sleeping so soundly on the couch next to me that she is snoring. Loudly. Silly Moose.
I guess that's all I can remember happening, though I am certain much more did happen.
