Mid-Week Excitement

We returned from Lowes on Monday with two translucent hurricane protection panels and we began to install one.  This panel was really rugged and met standards set forth by Miami - Dade County certification.  It is supposed to with stand winds of 200 mph.  Easy to drill and cut with the proper tools, but not flexible at all.  We measured twice and cut once, used the panel as our template to evenly place the retaining screws around the window.  Not taking too long, but moving to the next job of painting the garage door which hasn't seen paint since it was new.


After catching up on all of the maintenance items on Tuesday, Sue and I enjoyed an evening out with friends Jack and Carlene Rupertus from Wilmington and our RiverCross Fellowship Church.  They introduced us to the "Steak & Shake" Restaurant that is near their location in Port St. Lucie.  After dinner we drove to the "Estate Auction" held monthly in Stuart, FL.   We watched as over more than 1000 items went up for bid that night and Sue decided on some super soft leather chairs and I picked our first wall art.

Our First Florida Wall Art







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Standing next to one of her chairs Sue shows
more of our "personal wall art"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Direct TV Debacle   

Earlier in the day, actually on Monday evening when I switched on "Dancin with the Stars", I found we received an error message affecting our TV.   I asked Sue "what did you talk about when you contacted the Direct TV sales support?"  She calmly answered, "that they had our address wrong and I wanted the billing address changed."  So on Tuesday morning she called back to find they stopped our TV service.  I was livid!  And to top this off...they couldn't send a service person until Friday to repair the damages.  Usually in Delaware, with Verizon, this is all accomplished by throwing a switch miles away to restore service.   Today, Wednesday, I received a call that the repairman was at our home in Delaware trying to gain entry to restore service.  Is this a bunch of screwed up people?