More this and that

Well, it's later mid morning and no sign of the framers to put up our staircase railing. No word from the guy, either, of course.  DH is finally able to return the scaffolding we have been borrowing since last spring/summer. It had belonged to the electrician that died. The wife said we could use it as long as we needed to. We just weren't expecting this long! (though he has contacted her several times to see if she needed it back). Our neighbor has a little old pick up truck he uses for hauling stuff and told DH the other day if he ever wants to borrow it, he can. DH decided he would use that to return the scaffolding. Called up neighbor to ask and he's like sure....keys are in it - help yourself! haha.  Anyway, taking it all down, getting it loaded, and delivering it back is at least giving DH something to do today.

One of the things I want DH to build me as soon as possible is a farmhouse table. Well's I guess he's been doubting his building skills, so was looking online and came across a local-ish guy who builds them. Exactly what I want, for $350. Which I think is a really good price. It's a bit smaller in length than I probably would have had DH build, but the guy also takes orders. The original plan was to make it out of the lumber from our trees cut down, so maybe the guy can use our lumber and we'd just have to pay him for labor, if we decide to go that route. DH contacted him, but he's out of town for a couple of days, so we'll find out more later this week.

I had a pretty long chat with my mom yesterday. About nothing in particular, but she seemed to be doing really good. She didn't once have trouble with remembering a word, so that was good.

DD was a bit miffed at her job yesterday. She has the option to basically start whenever and work 8 hours, so she starts at 6:00am and gets off at 2:30pm (same hours her fiance has, so they can carpool). Now one of the people above her in her dept has decided to schedule a daily phone conf. meeting at 4-4:30pm every day for at least the next 6 weeks. This includes some people from their supplier who are 2 hours later! DD is miffed enough that she has to now be available at 4pm every day, I can only imagine how those folks in the Central time zone are feeling. So, she calls in to the meeting yesterday and no one else calls in. Hopefully the stupid lady that scheduled this realizes how ridiculous that is to expect those in the 2 hours later time zone. Geez. People need a life outside of work in the evenings. I could see a once a week call/meeting, but not daily at that time.

There's been a wild turkey gobbling all morning, somewhere nearby. He must be trying to attract the ladies, LOL. Those birds crack me up.

We have a friend from where we used to live. Ever since we moved here, he's been saying he's going to move here, eventually. I assumed he meant when he retires (he's like late 40's now). But, I guess he's been waiting for this big settlement on an injury he received to get done and he's using that money to buy something over here, and it's settled now, I guess. He's actually interested in some acreage on the other side of our town. Eek. That's a bit close. haha.  He's a super nice guy, but he is sooo loud and one of those that knows everything. I was texting DD about it last night and she said "that's too close...you'll still be able to hear him from there" haha! Plus, he's the type that would say to DH "oh you have your big shop, can I store this in it or use it?" (he's a mechanic). And Dh is the kind who has a really hard time saying no, even though there is no way he would want to do something like that. We just want our peace and quiet, especially after this long build process. Hopefully, it's still a long way off before he moves here.

Friday we are supposed to have some more site work done, getting the driveway pads ready for concrete, as well as finishing up the last part of our rockery wall.

I just went and got our mail. One of the envelopes is from our telephone company. I almost didn't even open it. Usually they just send junk mail or notices of meetings, as they are a co-op. Well, it was a little check for $18.47. The annual member reimbursement. I forgot that did that. Better than junk mail :)