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Good News, Bad News

GOOD NEWS: My husband got online, filled out a form for propane fill up, and actually talked to the lady at the office. Today the truck showed up. I asked my husband to monitor the fill up while I was doing other stuff.

He came inside a bit later, saying the guy had started to leave after filling up the small tank behind the shop. My husband stopped him, telling him we had ordered a fill up for the larger tank for the house, as well. The guy didn’t have a ticket for that. He called the home base and was able to arrange for a 2nd ticket so he could fill up the larger tank.

When my husband told him he had ordered fill ups for both when he talked to the lady, the guy said, “She’s difficult to deal with.” I praised my husband to the moon for saving the man a second trip and me the hassle for calling the lady back and ordering a second trip.

BAD NEWS:

One of our lawn chairs didn’t survive the propane truck’s passing. He obviously didn’t see it. It was old and on its last legs anyway, but I just spent about 15 minutes separating the metal from the plastic and making a pile for the next recycling trip and adding to the next burn pile.

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Good News – Bad News

Yesterday my husband called again about the chat/crusher dust for our driveway. Amazingly, they didn’t have any record of our call/order. Later yesterday the truck came and left a big truckload, ‘tail-gating’ the material from a point where my husband marked our driveway and then down to the road that runs in front of the house.

The good news is we finally got the material delivered. The bad news is that the early rain we had caused the truck not to be really able to tail-gate it properly, so it dumped, rather than spread. The end result is that we had to call our friends and tell them we wouldn’t be at Lunch Bunch today because we can’t get out.

I called the man who has helped us with our driveway in the past, but had to leave a message on his phone. I don’t know whether he’s gotten the request for help or not.

We will figure something out, but it may not be today…

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