Electricity

The electrical contractors are here today...at this very moment, in fact. They are running the power lines to the garage. It's been 5 weeks since that tree fell and severed the lines. They have to do this up to code, so they are trenching an underground line from the basement to the garage.

Let me just describe the whole event. I am feeling frustrated and irritated this morning so I am venting....ahhhhhhhhh

Tilden came home because I told him last night that I don't feel like dealing with another contractor today. I am just "spent" on all the phone calls and meetings by myself. He hasn't dealt with any of it, but he gives his opinion on the details that have been arranged afterwards. Basically, it makes me feel like I am being "graded" on my level of professionalism and shrewdness. Not intentionally his plan, I am sure...it's just the "way of man". LOL

So, he put on his official work outside outfit. He's had this whole ensemble since we were married and he doesn't veer from it - EVER. Let me do the visual for you...since I am not getting out the camera for this.
- The oldest jeans ever made. Very faded and worn with giant holes in the knees and at the edge of the back pockets. Oil and paint stains that will never come out.
- 20 year old work boots that are completely stained with dirt and oil. There is no trace of their former color. I bought him a brand new pair of Timberland's 2 years ago, but they are still in the box because he doesn't want to "ruin" them.
-Flannel shirt that you can barely see under his zip up , blue sweat shirt. The thermal lined sweat shirt has seen it's last days, but that thing ain't going nowhere.

Know what's funny? When you look out the window, he matches the 3 electrical dudes out there...right down to the BLUE sweatshirt jacket. LOL

Anyhow, he's not actually DOING anything. It's kind of like going to a professional football game and wearing the jersey of your favorite player. You are never going down on the field and you will surely never touch that ball, but you look the part anyhow. He's currently wearing his "electrical contractor fan" outfit. He's sitting in the bleachers out there, cheering them on.

Sooo.........they had to take down my fence on the driveway side in order to drive their trencher to the back yard. Then they dug a 3 foot deep trench from the back of the house straight out to the top of the hill and then across to the garage. Jake and I watched from the kitchen window because it was fascinating. There is a brick path under the grass out there and when it came to that spot it simply shot the bricks out and they went clear to the fire pit in the back yard. I was hoping to see a dinosaur bone or some ancient pottery fly out of there, but I guess a 3 foot hole just isn't deep enough, huh? They did unearth a huge flat stone though, it's awesome and I told Tilden that I want to keep it and use it somewhere.

Then they drilled a hole through the bricks in the garage and that took forever! Jake like the next part the most. They went into the crawl space in the basement and drilled a hole through the concrete and the entire house vibrated with that drill. Now they are running the line from the box in the house through that trench and into the garage.

Tilden just came in because he's cold. heeheee (guess we will call this half time)
Guess that's all for now!