I want to complete 25 Random Acts of Kindness in the 1001 days I gave myself for my 101 goals.
For some reason, this morning I had an overwhelming desire to bake cookies for the men working on our house. I just thought it would be nice, I guess.
A few guys came inside to wrap our windows as the cookies were coming out of the oven and I overheard one whisper, "I should go over and snag one of those peanut butter cookies...they smell so good!" I said, "Oh, these are for your crew. I was going to put them out on the front porch, but you guys can have first dibs, if you want." The look on this guy's face was priceless as he said, "Really?!?" They were thrilled. I'm glad I got that reaction before the one from a guy outside who said, "Oh, um...okay..." like I was nuts. I secretly hope everyone else ate all of the cookies before he got one.
So do you want to see what my beautiful house looks like? That thing on the left is a huge dumpster that spans the width of our front lawn to our neighbor's yard. Very attractive!
They pulled everything away from the patio and put it in the yard. (They extended the plastic on the patio a few feet into our lawn before they realize it was killing our grass. Mike's beautiful yard now has a huge, long strip of completely dead grass.)
They replaced our stuff with all of their junk supplies...
Ryan has been walking around all week wearing his tool belt, knocking on the windows and proudly displaying his costume to the workmen.
Kaylin has (somehow) been sleeping while hammers pound her walls and ridiculous amounts of noise fill her room. (you can see her crashed out in bed while men work LOUDLY outside her window)
I'm only 3 days into this month-long process and I'm already feeling unsettled. (*sigh*)
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what are they doing to your house?
Yeah, I always had stuff for the gardeners/window guys who worked on our house, too. But I think it's more a done thing over here, because they almost looked as if they expected things like that. Oh, and a bizillion cups of tea each day. Never mind. They were busting themselves in both scorching (garden) and freezing (window) weather making our house look nice while I stayed inside all comfy...I suppose a few cookies and tea bags aren't too much of a sacrifice!
I'm glad to hear the kids aren't negatively affected by all this. That's got to be a big relief!
Melissa - long story short, our windows leak. We haven't seen any water damage, but want to avoid mold issues later. They're redoing the stucco and replacing windows in a lot of the houses in my neighborhood. Probably 1 out of 3 of them. An inconvenience, but better than them tearing up our dry wall to fix a mold problem in a few more years!!!
Is this a builder problem or a geotech problem? I wonder when the lawsuits will start...
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