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Two days later, even though rain was falling, there were three young men jumping around on our roof and completing the replacement.

Last month’s storm took us by surprise. The weather forecaster said we could wind gusts up to fifty miles per hour, but we knew the one gust was much stronger than that. We have a lot of wind sheer where we live, and the latest sheared half our roof off. They told us it wasn’t a tornado, but wind sheer definitely removed it. Unfortunately, being told this made little difference. Regardless of the reason, we had to have the roof replaced. I called our homeowner’s insurance and once the insurance adjuster looked at the roof; he told us to get someone to the house and they would pay for the repairs. Now, we have another problem. The nearest appointment we could get was two weeks away, and it was supposed to rain soon. I called one of the local Amish roofing companies, who took the time to come to the house and give us an estimate to replace the roof. It was more expensive than what the insurance adjuster had quoted, but we needed to have the roof put on. Two days later, even though rain was falling, there were three young men jumping around on our roof and completing the replacement. It blew me away to see how easy they made it look to go from side to side on the roof, and not fall off. When they were done, I called the insurance company and sent them the bill. Even though it was higher than they expected, they paid the entire roofing bill. We didn’t get any rain in our house, which made me happy.

 

Siding Replacement

My husband and I had recently invested in a rental property. When we bought the house, it was in good condition, but things changed. Some of the local boys thought the house was abandoned and started throwing rocks at the windows. Even though what they did, wasn’t right, I was once a kid who had brothers with a lot of extra energy. The only thing we could do was get someone to give us an estimate for window replacements and door replacements throughout the building. I called one company, and they offered to go to the building. They said they would meet my husband there the following Saturday at 8 AM. My husband was working, so I went in his stead. When the man from the window replacement company showed up, he looked right past me and asked where my husband was. I told him he could talk to me about window replacements, but he didn’t act like he wanted to talk to me. I explained my husband was working, and he asked if there would be a better time for him. I laughed. After explaining to him that my husband and I were a partnership, and if he couldn’t talk to me, I would look elsewhere. He suddenly became very chatty. Although his pricing for window and door replacements was reasonable, we went to another company. My husband didn’t like it when people acted like I was just a stupid woman when I took care of our business decisions. The other window and door replacement company was cheaper, and they were easier to work with.

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My sister’s been visiting me a lot more now that she moved back to our home state.

• She lives about an hour away, but she drives into my city to make frequent stops at the large shopping mall here.

There are special stores in that mall that she can’t find anywhere else on this side of the state. It also gives her an excuse to stop by my house and say hi to myself and my wife. Sometimes my sister even brings freshly cooked food with her. Lately my sister’s been frustrated because of the men in her life. She has been through several different failed relationships over the past 5 years. I always tell her that she should go down to the convention center one of these nights when they’re having a concert outside. It’s actually usually a great place to mingle with people our age who are single. I’d rather my sister go there than stay at my house during an HVAC service visit and hit on the HVAC technician. I’m not even sure if I’m going to be able to keep my contract with this heating and cooling company because the HVAC technician looked clearly uncomfortable by my sister’s advances. I tried to tell her to stop several times, but she wouldn’t listen to me. I’m just mortified at the thought of that forage back technician going back to his job and telling his boss at the heating and cooling company that a client’s family member was making romantic advances on him. I’m sure the HVAC technician just wanted to do this job and get the air conditioning service complete in as little time as possible.

 

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I recently moved back to my home state.

I moved to the South to go to college for 4 years, but I ended up staying another 4 years after that because of the job I found. But once I got remote work and wasn’t tied down to that area, it seemed nicer to me thinking about moving back home. I had that experience living out of my home state away from my family, and I was ready to go back and see them all. On top of that, the rent is a lot more affordable near my parents’ hometown. I really hated paying high rent rates in the city I was living in during college. It was hard to afford living in an apartment when rent prices were higher than many other places in the country. So that made it a lot easier to move back home. Unfortunately the weather is sort of extreme in the winter season in this part of the country. I have a decent furnace in my home, but that’s not good enough if the power goes out. A lot of us use wood stoves and fireplaces to burn wood and the time of a power outage. A random blizzard can throw your power out in the middle of the night while you’re sleeping. Then you’d wake up shivering, or never wake up at all. Some people die of hyperthermia in their sleep because they don’t have adequate heat when they need it the most. You don’t necessarily need two heating systems if you live up north, but it’s certainly smart.

 

 

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Isn’t it interesting how two different people can have such vastly different temperature preferences? What may be too cold for one person and too hot for another? While most of these things come down to biology and personality, it always made me wonder why some people are completely fine with walking around, or even swimming when it is snowy and cold outside.

You would think that they get cold, however that does not seem to be the case.

If anything they look like they are having a good time. I find it to be strange. It’s strange when you see a stranger do it, but it is even stranger when it is someone that you know. In my case the person that I know is my girlfriend and she really does love the cold. So much so that she feels the need to put the air conditioner on full blast and while she is enjoying her arctic paradise, I’m over here freezing! She is also the kind to swim when it is snowing. Somehow she is not bothered by the cold. I can’t sleep with these cold temperatures so I have resorted to dressing warmly just so I can get some shut eye. In my opinion and temperature is too cold and I think the two of us I should discuss it and come to an agreement so that I can be comfortable too. It’s fine if she wants to have a room to herself that’s a cold, but in our shirts faces it needs to be at room temperature, because I’m not sure how much longer I can take this icy cold air conditioning system. It makes me miserable and I can’t get any sleep.

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When my heater went out last winter it was the last thing I would have ever expected to have. All I know is that I had went to bed all warm and toasty. As comfortable as I could possibly be, however when I woke up to feeling was completely different. I woke up and I managed to throw the covers completely off of me in my sleep. The moment I was aware of the coldness touching my skin I felt my entire body I immediately reached for my covers only to see if they had fallen off the side of the bed or onto the floor. As soon as I sat up to pick them up off the floor I took a breath and I could see my breath! If it was so cold I guess my breath inside the house I knew something was very very wrong. The first thing I did was very quickly grabbed my jacket and put on a thicker pair of pants. Then I ran out into the living room to see what was going on with the thermostat. Obviously something wasn’t working perfect thermostat if I was this cold and my assumptions were correct. Because the moment that I got out into the living room and took a look at the thermostat I saw that it was saying that it was 60 degrees in the house! I couldn’t believe it I tried everything I could try to get my heater to work. I have a smart thermostat so I tried turning it on for my phone, I tried pressing the buttons on the thermostat manually, I tried turning it off and back on again and nothing that I tried worked. I was so upset my heater was busted! So I did what anybody would have to do in this situation and I called emergency HVAC services. When the heating and cooling guy arrived he told me that it was my thermostat that was actually broken and not my heater which gave me some relief. It’s much easier to replace the thermostat than it is replacing a heater.

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