Jim and Adam flew off to Houston yesterday morning. I booked them on a 1 p.m. flight so they would get to Texas in time to watch the Rose Bowl game later in the afternoon. (Certainly Jim's idea, not Adam's!) Naturally, their plane encountered mechanical problems before it even left the gate and they were more than an hour late departing Detroit.
Shortly after we had bought the new house in Houston, we hired a contractor to redesign our staircase. He began what was supposed to be a 7-to-10 day assignment on November 30. As it ends up, the carpenter is a very slow and meticulous worker, and has been on the job ever since. Normally this wouldn't be a huge problem, but we scheduled for new carpeting to be installed on the 4th. (Which is one of the reasons that Adam is down there with Jim - the two of them are pulling up the old carpet this weekend and Ad is going to sit at the house while the installers are there on Monday.) Anyway, the contractor informed us via email last week that the staircase was 90% complete. Imagine our surprise when Jim and Adam walked into the house yesterday and found the job only about half done. Now Jim will not be able to paint the staircase as planned before the carpet is put down. On the bright side, however, the installers will not have to contend with any pesky railings on the stairway as they lay the new carpeting.
Jim also had to contact our pool guy in Houston because the automatic vacuum was not working in our swimming pool when he and Adam arrived at the house. In addition, they discovered a puddle of water in the backyard, and assume that there is a leaking underground pipe somewhere in the pool filtration system. Jim has been a little bit frustrated with all of the complications that he has encountered in the one day that he has been at the Texas house, but I'm sure everything will work out in the long run. He did report that while my favorite banana tree is still brown and withered, it does seem to have some new green growth at the bottom. Hopefully that can be salvaged!
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Ya know things move a little slower down south.
Hey can we come down and ice skate in your pool? I'm on my way to Birmingham AL right now and it's colder there than Detroit.
Well, at least Jim is there now to take care of the house and pool in the sub-freezing temps! I think he is being blamed for bringing the cold weather with him from Michigan.
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