What We've Been Up To

 It's been a while since I wrote about the house. I was away for a week, and I made Tim swear to me that he would do some small jobs while I was gone and avoid the heavy work. There is a lot going on here, most of it unbloggable, and I've been struggling. I was looking forward to time with my grandaughters. I haven't seen them since the beginning of December, and a baby changes quite a bit in just 7 months. 

I just wanted to have my week. Tim didn't want to go, because he can't just do nothing for a week. I can. I planned to sit back and enjoy it, too. 

Tim and I came up with a list of tasks that needed doing and I headed off feeling pretty confident that he was not going to push himself physically, especially since it was supposed to be awfully hot for the week. 

Long story short, I had a wonderful time with the grandchildren. I did not expect the baby to warm to me. After all, I was a stranger to her. I am thrilled to report that she and I got along just fine. She warmed to me enough that her mother was able to take in a afternoon matinee. She had a chance to go out to breakfast with her oldest.

When I got home, Tim needed to do some work on my car too, so that took a weekend, but Monday morning we were back at it. We put up two walls with my sister and brother-in-law's help. Tuesday, we were back up there. We put up one wall ourselves, and my brother-in-law came over and helped us with the final wall. 

Today, Tim had to run up to place the order for the roofing materials at Eastern States, which is about an hour from here, so it was a relaxing morning. I had time to get the laundry taken care of, folded and put away, egg salad made for lunch, take care of my plants, and tick a few little tasks off my to do list. 

One of the tasks I've been meaning to do is to call and cancel our Netflix. I kept the password on a post it note inside the tv stand, but of course it was not there. When we switched over to streaming our television, Netflix needed us to sign in again. We debated changing the password, but in the end decided that with the Roku, we have access to more television and movies than we have ever had in our lives. We made up our minds to cancel the Netflix. But, hey. I've been busy. 

So I did live chat with Netflix today and was gobsmacked when the woman said that we had a $19.98 + tax charge. I told her that I did not understand why we owed any money at all. English was obviously not her first language, but she patiently explained to me that we had not used our Netflix for the past two months. She meant that we had a credit, not a charge. 

I did not expect that.

Tim got home and we ate lunch and headed down to the new build. We put a second top plate on the walls for stability. Tomorrow, we begin setting the roof trusses in place. We expect two days and that will be done. The roof materials will be delivered Monday morning. I will feel much better once the place is roofed and sheeting is up on the outside of the walls. 

I promise I will be better about pictures.