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Saturday afternoon I got a call from one of our landlords to let me know that a roll-off dumpster will be delivered to our driveway because the handyman will be replacing the roof. In the middle of February?? Winter??? Odd time of year for us, but okay. Lucky for us we're having our January thaw in February. The temperature is 58°F (or 14°C for my non-U.S. friends) this Wednesday evening and is suppose to reach 72°F (22°C) tomorrow afternoon, so we're good. Such a change from last week when we had a high temperature one day of just 0°F (-18°C). BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
So anyway, the dumpster arrives and it's smack dab in the middle of the driveway, and a little over 3 feet from the garage door. The handyman said he made sure it was back far enough so D & I could get out with our mobility scooters, though from our viewpoint we couldn't. Okay, fine, we'll cope. We don't like it, but we'll cope.
So the handyman's working on the roof, alone, which means the job is gonna take longer than it should. Ugh! The forecast calls for rain on Saturday. I just hope that if he's not finished that he will have the intelligence to put tarps over the exposed areas of the roof or next thing we know we'll have water coming in everywhere. Not a prospect I have in mind especially if any of the computers get wet. We would have them buying us new one's so fast their heads will start spinning.
Unfortunately the placement of the dumpster has caused a bit of a problem. Like I said, it's abut 3 feet from the garage door and no room for our scooters to get out of the garage... or so we thought. After the dumpster arrived D, who has a history of panic attacks, started having them. She couldn't figure out why, though. Maybe it was the handyman being on the roof because she has a problem with people moving around over her head on upper floors, who knows. Finally she decided she needed to get out but she couldn't and that's when it hit us. She was blocked in, trapped in the house. Because of that she was panicking. Finally I figured out that yes we could get out. It would take a little maneuvering, but we could get out.
So M got the scooters out for us and D & I went downtown with our laptops to go sit at our favourite Tea shop, drink tea and work on homework. Unfortunately the tea shop closed sometime since the last time we were in last spring. Frack! We needed someplace with a Wi-Fi hotspot. Then D suggested Borders Books, they have a cafe and Wi-Fi. Cool! D worked on her final project which was due tonight while I tried to do my homework. I failed partially because I was helping D. Oh well, it happens. And we had a good time as a result.
It's interesting how innocuous things in life spur you on to do something else that you've neglected for a while. D & I haven't been able to Girl's Night Out in quite a while. Either we were both too busy with our studies, or the weather didn't allow, or the Padowan needed attention, or something else. Because of the roof replacement D needed to get out which forced us to figure out how to get us out and away from the house to somewhere that wasn't the grocery store or Padowan's school. And for me somewhere besides school and community choir rehearsal. We'd fallen into a rut and needed to be shaken loose. I just wish it didn't necessitate D having a panic attack to shake us out of the rut.
