Well, that was a nice little break there!
It’s been quite the time out
at the Kammrad Manse, the past 5 months. Let’s see, what happened…got the
ceiling fixed in our bedroom, then in July Lynn went in to Cancer Treatment
Centers for a hysterectomy and several days after being released, almost bled
to death at Sherman Hospital when CTCA sent her to the ER at Sherman and they
stuck her in a room and left her for several hours, never checking on her,
until she felt herself losing consciousness and called in a nurse who found her
bleeding out and it took 2 pints of blood to get her back. Nice!
She still is exhausted
throughout much of her day and needs 9-10 hours of sleep a night to get through
it.
Summer was nice. We belong to
a community pool (in our backyard, it was part of our property when the house
was built in the 50’s) and it was nice to go over with the kids and sit after
work.
As summer wound down, Lynn
decided to use some of the money she got from her mom and dad, so we bought a small
hot tub and a gazebo to put it in. We had them delivered and set up on the
cement pad patio in the front of our house and when I went to get the permit
for the electrical work, found that because of how our house is situated on a
corner lot, we couldn’t have either the hot tub, or the gazebo anywhere in
front of our house.
We called the Great Escape to
move them, they said sure, for $600, When the moving day came they said they
couldn’t move the gazebo because the slab of concrete in back of our house
(part of a full court basketball court that had cracked and settled over the
past 60 years) was not level.
Luckily, the company doing the
electrical work has a construction division and they moved the tub and gazebo
for the same $600. All they had to do was shim one corner of the gazebo; the
vast majority of the slab was level.
So now we go to the hot tub
4-5 days a week. Very nice after a long day at work. And the relaxation extends
to my time after the kids go to bed and I can take notes for this blog, so
without further ado…
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