the pomegranate tiger

Well, the roof looks like it might get finished by this weekend. It's taken them over two weeks, but hey, I'm going to have a new roof. Right? As for the windows, they tell me the "expected date for completion of manufacturing" is November 20th. In other words,they're not made yet and we'll be lucky to get them installed by Christmas. You know the picture of the empty dumpster in my last post? It's now full and they're not even finished. It's so full, I have no idea how they think they're going to move it without half of it falling out. I have visions of tiling, woodchips and debris trailing from our driveway all the way to the city dump. Take a look . . . Oh well, I'm not going to let any of it bother me because we'll be leaving on our European adventure in less than two weeks. Despite the on and off hammering, thudding and cursing (by the roofers, not me), I've been happily busy finalizing our travel plans and scrambling ...

To update: This morning when the roofers hadn't arrived by 9:30 am, DH called their office. No answer, so called their cell number. Apparently, they are running behind (well, yeah!) and won't be able to start yet. So, when can they start? Not until next Tuesday at the earliest! That's another five days from now. Meanwhile, we have this huge dumpster sitting in our driveway, blocking the garage and there are piles of roofing materials on the front lawn. I'm sure the neighbours are very happy. It would have been nice if they'd at least called to say they were delayed. Is that asking too much?

At 10:00 am: "How's it going? Have they started yet?" asks dh on the phone. "No." "Well, they didn't say exactly when they'd come, did they?" "No, I guess not. But they did say today, right?" "That's what they said." 12:30 pm "How're they doing?" "They're not here yet." "Maybe they had problems finishing the job from yesterday," says dh in a most understanding way. "Maybe." 3:30 pm: "How's it going?" "It's not." "Oh," says dh, knowing not to ask any further. "I don't think they're coming today." . . . . And that, ladies and gentlemen, has been my day. Well, that, and receiving delivery of my son's new computer, getting an anticipated order from Land's End, doing a couple loads of laundry, revising a set of financial statements, and updating my x365 blog – but all only coincidental to my waiting for...

Am I nuts? No. Don't answer that. Some blogs back , I mentioned that we (me and hubby) were planning a trip to Europe. Well, barring any catastrophes (knock wood), it looks like a 'go' for early November. Final payments have been made and I'm still researching like crazy what we want to see and how we're going to see everything we want to see. Given the limited time available to us, we decided on a 12 day cruise that will go to Italy (Rome & Naples), Greece (Athens & Mykonos), Turkey (Istanbul & Ephesus) and Egypt (Port Said & Alexandria). We'll be staying four days in Rome and taking an overnight trip to Cairo. We'll be gone a total of eighteen days. As you can imagine, this has been keeping me very happily pre-occupied. As you can also imagine, it's not going to be cheap. We thought long and hard about this and decided it's something we need to do now (see above-linked post). So guess what I've done? I've scheduled our roof...