Stark evidence of our little friendsToday is my Dad's birthday and I am spending my time waiting for the termite guy. This whole sordid story started with the whole complex getting a termite inspection. We were told to wait at home on a Saturday for the guy to show up and inspect. I waited and waited and waited.
Later we gave the association a call everyone was not in so we finally broke down and called the association's emergency number. The lady who answered the phone said we might be the house that did not have any termite damage. Well, how can that be since they never inspected?
We arranged for them to come again and look. Lo an behold we weren't that lucky it is termite season in Huntington Beach and our house is fodder! Ugh! The guy even crawled up into the attic. Don't get too excited when we say attic we mean a place you get to through our bedroom closet with a crawl space of about 2-3 feet high.
The good news is we have plenty of company in the complex. He is coming back today to drill holes in the garage and atrium and pour some termite annihilation chemical into the holes.
One of our to-dos apart from wait for the door bell to ring is move all the boxes we have in the garage 2 feet away from the wall. So, after having dinner at my favorite Japanese restaurant last night (MiMi Sushi) we started moving.
The last folks who owned our condo left a stack of 4 jeep tires in the garage. Never moved them because they are a good way to stop from hitting the garage wall. I found out how heavy those suckers can be!
Now we look like everyone else with their cars in the outside parking spaces and their garages full of crap! My personal pet peeve.
All of our little possessions. The garage has never been so clean!
The highlight of the event was we were moving one of the old book boxes from London and the bottom came way to reveal a termite mess. The little boogers had been eating away at the bottom of the box so we had to repackage. John, my darling husband, spent most of his time reminiscing about stuff in the box. Get on with it buddy we gots work to do!
Anyway, we are all done and now we wait wait wait for the termite man.
2 comments:
Oh my! I had originally read this post via BlackBerry, thus missed the exciting photography! Dreadful little buggers aren't they!
Yup, terrible little buggers. But the up side is we put some more order to the garage. The boxes look a littel neater now. :-)
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