The House Project

Work on the house is continuing this week with Sears’ installing siding. We called around and they had the best deal. The only problem was the salesman spent 3 hours at our house educating us about siding, the installation and a thousand other boring details. I finally threw him out after agreeing to go with them. I wonder if that’s their plan; to bore customers so much they just say ’sign me up!’ to get rid of them. So far the work they’ve done is good and we’re extremely happy.

As a courtesy I told my neighbor we will be having workers around the house all week to install siding on the house. He asked “why would you put siding all over the nice brick?” “No just on the wood” I told him. Still puzzled, I added “so we don’t have to paint any longer.” He finally understood. This is why we affectionately call him “dumbass.”

Next week we’ll be working on the landscaping around the house and will probably get the guy who has been working with us already. We’ll use him for the heavier work and do the easier flower and small shrub planting ourselves.