Back to house work...

Now it's back to trying to get things done around here - with some added twists. The chimney cap has to be repaired...last week he broke up the old one.

Quite the messy and hard job to break up the old cap

Certainly not an easy task considering how high our roof is.


Good thing he's not afraid of heights!

Thankfully Jim is always safety conscious and is using a harness.



So cute in his safety harness!

But here's the fun part...Jim will need the Bobcat to mix the cement to make the new cap. And of course the shipper just emailed and said he may pick up the equipment Wednesday. Which means that the whole thing needs to be done by tomorrow. It rained all day yesterday and this morning so now the clock is really ticking.  But he used that time wisely and was busy making custom forms, complete with a drip edge, for the concrete.  So he's installing them now.



 

Mike is supposed to come over tomorrow and help Jim.  There will be lots of carrying 5 gallon pails of concrete up the scaffolding to Jim for him to place it.  Thank God for good friends - especially ones that may not know what they are getting themselves into and might be otherwise busy!

 

On a frustrating phone call note...I thought I had the whole EZ Pass for the truck figured out after spending an hour on the phone with a multitude of different people a couple weeks ago.  They were supposed to add the box truck to our private account, send us a new transponder and we would be good to go.  'Til in never showed up.  So I called and found out...oh, they canceled that request because you can't have a commercial type truck on a private account.  I told this woman that I had talked to supervisors last time who told me that it was possible but no, she wouldn't budge.  So I had to download a business application - which of course didn't apply to us.  I had to leave so many things blank so that will probably be an issue.  I told her we had hoped to use it next week but she didn't sound promising that we could receive it by then.  Ah, the best laid plans...