Contractors

I can relate to Jenni, who has had a slew of house maintenance of late. Let me give you the low-down:

BTW--- Friends who have recently purchased a house in the past 4 weeks and are still blissful about their purchase are NOT allowed to read this. Forbidden. *wink*

1. ROOF. Leaking. Finally got roofer to call me back. Coming in a few weeks.

2. BIRDS. In attic. Keeping people awake. Called critter control person but had to cancel because roofer said that there are THIRTEEN unprotected air vents which the birds are using as revolving doors. No use in having critter control guy scare off birds if they have 13 other entrances. We'll leave that to the roofer.

3. PHONE. Call waiting wasn't working. So far three AT*T contractors have been out to fix parts of the line. Still not sure if it works.

4. CABLE. Line cut when yahoo from AT*T "fixed" our phone line. Called C*mcast.

5. FURNACE FAN. Sucked up the filter, shredded it and threatened to cost us an entire new furnace. Got new filter.

6. FILTER BRACKETS. Apparently these would have kept furnace filter from being sucked into fan motor. We ordered them last week from AC guy. He called today to say that *ahem* somehow they were never ordered. I finally turned the air on anyway.

7. SPRINKLER SYSTEM. This was a splurge. We don't use our system regularly but apparently the last owners didn't use it at all, so we had to get a new computer system thingy. That IS the technical name. The sprinkler guys came out once, then twice. They're coming out again tomorrow. Third time is a charm, we hope.