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Jan. 27th, 2022 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravena_kadeToday would have been my maternal Grandmother's 103 birthday. I remembered her this week by making the soup that she made. Shin Bone soup... it's a beef soup.
The bathroom floor replacement looks nice but has run amok. The floor looks good. The trim is nice. The new subfloor fixies a problem. The issue today was that the flange on the toilet was corroded and the sink shut off snapped as it was also corroded. No biggie, it's an old house. The biggie is that the pipe is not a standard size so the cousin contractor could not easily fix the issue. He has jury rigged something so he would not have to shut off the water... and we can wait for a plumber. The odds of getting anyone in tomorrow, the day before blizzard is pretty much nil. If he could tor rig something up her would have had to shut all the water off...and so our furnace would not work.. Lets just say it was an anxious day. So right now there is a toilet but no sink and no shower. So far they have been her 3 days and are coming very early tomorrow to try and get the shower to work. Goodness knows how much more this will cost.
What ticked me off is that the cousin contractor had his grandson at the house while working. I was amazed that I did not hear a 3 year old in the house. The ticked part was that 2 dirty diapers were left on the coffee table. All the cousin contractor had to do is mentioned and I would have been fine if he tossed them in the trash. NOT. LEFT. THEM. ON. THE. COFFEE. TABLE. Oi.
Tonight we paid went to my Aunt's wake. These COVID years have taken so much time away from us. There was a slide show of photos that made me cry. My Uncle looked so frail. He survived liver cancer and lung cancer, but now has brain cancer. WE have not seen him in 2 years as his immune system is not there anymore. You could see the brain tumor and scarring from surgeries to pit in a drain. It is terrible that we could only see family in sadness.
Tomorrow is the funeral.
Right now I am just cold. It is 20 degrees. Its an electric blanket night.
The bathroom floor replacement looks nice but has run amok. The floor looks good. The trim is nice. The new subfloor fixies a problem. The issue today was that the flange on the toilet was corroded and the sink shut off snapped as it was also corroded. No biggie, it's an old house. The biggie is that the pipe is not a standard size so the cousin contractor could not easily fix the issue. He has jury rigged something so he would not have to shut off the water... and we can wait for a plumber. The odds of getting anyone in tomorrow, the day before blizzard is pretty much nil. If he could tor rig something up her would have had to shut all the water off...and so our furnace would not work.. Lets just say it was an anxious day. So right now there is a toilet but no sink and no shower. So far they have been her 3 days and are coming very early tomorrow to try and get the shower to work. Goodness knows how much more this will cost.
What ticked me off is that the cousin contractor had his grandson at the house while working. I was amazed that I did not hear a 3 year old in the house. The ticked part was that 2 dirty diapers were left on the coffee table. All the cousin contractor had to do is mentioned and I would have been fine if he tossed them in the trash. NOT. LEFT. THEM. ON. THE. COFFEE. TABLE. Oi.
Tonight we paid went to my Aunt's wake. These COVID years have taken so much time away from us. There was a slide show of photos that made me cry. My Uncle looked so frail. He survived liver cancer and lung cancer, but now has brain cancer. WE have not seen him in 2 years as his immune system is not there anymore. You could see the brain tumor and scarring from surgeries to pit in a drain. It is terrible that we could only see family in sadness.
Tomorrow is the funeral.
Right now I am just cold. It is 20 degrees. Its an electric blanket night.
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Date: 2022-01-28 01:03 pm (UTC)The diapers, OMG! I hope he just forgot and wasn't THAT inconsiderate but erm, couldn't he smell them? Yikes!!
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Date: 2022-01-28 03:09 pm (UTC)I think he forgot because you couldn't smell anything. Just pee. I know the youngster and he is being potty trained, but there was no potty for him to use.
Perhaps he was too afraid to tell me that he broke the shut off and that I would not have water...and my furnace the day before a blizzard.
Who knows...and my family can be weird. I just trust him not to steal anything.
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Date: 2022-01-28 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-28 02:37 pm (UTC)WTF?! :p Where the hell did they grow up?!
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Date: 2022-01-28 07:34 pm (UTC)One of my coworkers told me a story about movers he found goofing and riding his son's bikes.
I feel like COVID isolation has eroded those social niceties
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Date: 2022-01-28 08:56 pm (UTC)And I'm so sorry about the funeral. I know, I've got a similar situation where there are family I only see at funerals (since we're short on relatives the right age to be having weddings right now). *Hugs*