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which_chickFor people happily enjoying their warm-n-sunny vacation in WarmNSunnyland, here are some updates regarding the girl business you left behind.
Update the first: About thirty shingles blew off the Terrace this weekend. The missing shingles are in one big area which is not a corner but a big flat spot. I think I can put new ones on to fill in the hole without having it look like shit. As it poured rain all day today, I didn't figure I would be sticking new ones up today, though. Perhaps Wednesday, if the snow doesn't get in the way. Shingles, as regular readers of the mind like a steel trap contingent will recall, blew off the Terrace last year as well. We have not been having what I would classify as exceptionally high winds and shingles are not supposed to come off when the wind blows anyway. Perhaps it is getting to be time to consider re-roofing the Terrace? (It's been eighteen years, you know.)
Update the second: We note with interest that you have not sent a letter to your mother for all of February. It would be nice if you could do that sometime in March. She'd like to hear from you.
Update the third: There is a water leak between Mr. Terry-the-doghouse-guy's place and the new, big, plastic valve one house downstream from him (Orpin's?) that we worked on fairly recently. It is a big water leak, a ten-gallons-in-ten-seconds kind of water leak. The leak DOES NOT appear to be anywhere near the new, big, plastic valve, which Mr. Terry and Mr. Ted dug up around and found that the stone was dry and that there was no water pouring out of anywhere near there. (I really hope they had the good sense to rebury it. I forgot to ask, though.)
It's going to be in the teens and twenties here until Friday, but then it's supposed to go up to near forty. I've scheduled Friday for extensive fucking around with the water leak. Saturday, Mr. Ted at the end is coming to be in his summer place (because it's totally summer here, yo, with temperatures in the forties and all) and he would definitely like for there to be water at his house when he arrives. He told me so today upon discovering that there was no water at his house (I had Mr. Terry shut it off behind his own house this morning so that there'd be some pressure in the system). We have not yet inspected the Orpin house shut off valve, beyond shutting it off to see if that helped with the leak situation. (It did not.) There was a small amount of water in the Orpin shut-off pit, but not a huge amount. (It poured rain today. That side of the lake the dirt doesn't drain for shit. We don't know if the water in the Orpin shut-off pit is incidental water or from-a-leak water.)
Any suggestions you have on that front would be *most* welcome. Mr. Terry seems confused about the "how to find leaks" thing. He does not feel that you narrow it down to between two shutoff valves, look for water in either of the two shutoff valve pits, and, finding none, then start digging for the length of the pipe until you strike water. As far as I understood it, that was how finding-water-leaks worked. Do I have it wrong?
Update the fourth: People inhabiting the Bulger trailer are still there but now they're promising to move "on the first" into their new place. They called and asked for the deposit ahead of time so that they could put money down on the new place. (They have not yet paid all of February's rent but I don't really give a fuck if I can get them out of that piece of shit so that I can throw it away.) I told them that they could have their deposit back as soon as they gave me (a) keys to the trailer and (b) a written statement saying that they had really and truly moved out. (I do not care if they have actually left or not but I didn't say that to the tenants.) I reiterated to them that the trailer demolition would be beginning AS SOON AS I GOT THE KEYS BACK. I am really not enjoying this. The other girl hasn't done much besides try to sell her trailer on the trading post for a couple of weeks. We suspect she's going to move in with the first-floor-front cousin and just leave the fucking thing on the lot. If she does that and states in writing that she has moved out of the trailer, are we allowed to shut off the water at the pit in the front? For all I care, the trailer can sit there, unoccupied, for rather a long while. I just don't want to have to provide water to it, is all.)
Update the fifth: Tenant at 347, with the job at JLG and the three small kids, who had been back on his rent and upon whom we had filed and who had given us a bad check and upon whom we had called the constable and who begged to be let back in so that his children would not freeze to death on the street, him? He is now fully caught up and has paid part of March's rent. Good for him, much love to the center for community services, which threw down $360.00 for part of his back rent.
Update the sixth: Tenant in TA 9 busted a bathroom window (one pane only, so the place is still weather tight). I ordered the new window, sent tenant a bill for the busted window (broken on the INSIDE ONLY). Am not replacing the fucking window until it gets paid for. Those things are bloody expensive.
Update the seventh: Upstairs front at 219 says her roof (the up-really-high) roof is leaking when it rains pretty hard. I told her we'd look at it when the weather got fit.
Update the eighth: One of the concrete block steps to #3 219 has crumbled into nothingness. This needs to be fixed. It is not really the weather to do anything with concrete blocks or mortar just yet. Am waiting for warmer weather on this one. Also, if you have any ideas on how to fix this, I'd love to hear them.
Your house, last I checked, was fine. I've picked up Sue's mail three times. I have watered the plants twice and will do them again this weekend.
Update the first: About thirty shingles blew off the Terrace this weekend. The missing shingles are in one big area which is not a corner but a big flat spot. I think I can put new ones on to fill in the hole without having it look like shit. As it poured rain all day today, I didn't figure I would be sticking new ones up today, though. Perhaps Wednesday, if the snow doesn't get in the way. Shingles, as regular readers of the mind like a steel trap contingent will recall, blew off the Terrace last year as well. We have not been having what I would classify as exceptionally high winds and shingles are not supposed to come off when the wind blows anyway. Perhaps it is getting to be time to consider re-roofing the Terrace? (It's been eighteen years, you know.)
Update the second: We note with interest that you have not sent a letter to your mother for all of February. It would be nice if you could do that sometime in March. She'd like to hear from you.
Update the third: There is a water leak between Mr. Terry-the-doghouse-guy's place and the new, big, plastic valve one house downstream from him (Orpin's?) that we worked on fairly recently. It is a big water leak, a ten-gallons-in-ten-seconds kind of water leak. The leak DOES NOT appear to be anywhere near the new, big, plastic valve, which Mr. Terry and Mr. Ted dug up around and found that the stone was dry and that there was no water pouring out of anywhere near there. (I really hope they had the good sense to rebury it. I forgot to ask, though.)
It's going to be in the teens and twenties here until Friday, but then it's supposed to go up to near forty. I've scheduled Friday for extensive fucking around with the water leak. Saturday, Mr. Ted at the end is coming to be in his summer place (because it's totally summer here, yo, with temperatures in the forties and all) and he would definitely like for there to be water at his house when he arrives. He told me so today upon discovering that there was no water at his house (I had Mr. Terry shut it off behind his own house this morning so that there'd be some pressure in the system). We have not yet inspected the Orpin house shut off valve, beyond shutting it off to see if that helped with the leak situation. (It did not.) There was a small amount of water in the Orpin shut-off pit, but not a huge amount. (It poured rain today. That side of the lake the dirt doesn't drain for shit. We don't know if the water in the Orpin shut-off pit is incidental water or from-a-leak water.)
Any suggestions you have on that front would be *most* welcome. Mr. Terry seems confused about the "how to find leaks" thing. He does not feel that you narrow it down to between two shutoff valves, look for water in either of the two shutoff valve pits, and, finding none, then start digging for the length of the pipe until you strike water. As far as I understood it, that was how finding-water-leaks worked. Do I have it wrong?
Update the fourth: People inhabiting the Bulger trailer are still there but now they're promising to move "on the first" into their new place. They called and asked for the deposit ahead of time so that they could put money down on the new place. (They have not yet paid all of February's rent but I don't really give a fuck if I can get them out of that piece of shit so that I can throw it away.) I told them that they could have their deposit back as soon as they gave me (a) keys to the trailer and (b) a written statement saying that they had really and truly moved out. (I do not care if they have actually left or not but I didn't say that to the tenants.) I reiterated to them that the trailer demolition would be beginning AS SOON AS I GOT THE KEYS BACK. I am really not enjoying this. The other girl hasn't done much besides try to sell her trailer on the trading post for a couple of weeks. We suspect she's going to move in with the first-floor-front cousin and just leave the fucking thing on the lot. If she does that and states in writing that she has moved out of the trailer, are we allowed to shut off the water at the pit in the front? For all I care, the trailer can sit there, unoccupied, for rather a long while. I just don't want to have to provide water to it, is all.)
Update the fifth: Tenant at 347, with the job at JLG and the three small kids, who had been back on his rent and upon whom we had filed and who had given us a bad check and upon whom we had called the constable and who begged to be let back in so that his children would not freeze to death on the street, him? He is now fully caught up and has paid part of March's rent. Good for him, much love to the center for community services, which threw down $360.00 for part of his back rent.
Update the sixth: Tenant in TA 9 busted a bathroom window (one pane only, so the place is still weather tight). I ordered the new window, sent tenant a bill for the busted window (broken on the INSIDE ONLY). Am not replacing the fucking window until it gets paid for. Those things are bloody expensive.
Update the seventh: Upstairs front at 219 says her roof (the up-really-high) roof is leaking when it rains pretty hard. I told her we'd look at it when the weather got fit.
Update the eighth: One of the concrete block steps to #3 219 has crumbled into nothingness. This needs to be fixed. It is not really the weather to do anything with concrete blocks or mortar just yet. Am waiting for warmer weather on this one. Also, if you have any ideas on how to fix this, I'd love to hear them.
Your house, last I checked, was fine. I've picked up Sue's mail three times. I have watered the plants twice and will do them again this weekend.
