The Big DumpTruck

Oh contraire. But I’m going to take a break from the professional bowling tour (I’m a groupie, you know. Go Pink Ladies!)

This weekend just looks so delightful. Raining and windy and….40? Gah. Time to stock up on comfort foods, methinks. I guess this will be the third week we don’t have baseball practice. It’s going to really start hurting them if they’re playing teams that actually get a chance to practice. We have a couple of kids who really need that time to work on the right way to swing the bat, etc. You can’t practice that when you’re at the plate in the middle of a game.

On the way out of the house I noticed something in one of the trees and went over to look. Ick…the entire thing is covered with gypsy moth caterpillars. It sort of freaked me out. This tree will probably be stripped bare by the time I get home tonight, and I didn’t have time to “do” anything with them. Not that I knew what to do, but I was thinking of just picking them all off and putting them in something and then blowing that something to kingdom come. Only slightly kidding.

My fear is them going after one of our “good” trees. This one is kind of the scrub that grows up in the uncleared area, so while I’m not happy, it’s not a big loss. But I have trees I want them to stay AWAY from, and I have to figure out how to make that happen (if it’s even possible.)

Okay, so I got bitter and disowned the Prince company when they discontinued their line of sauces. The big jerks. I felt obligated to leave them in the lurch the way they left me, and now I’m a Barilla pasta devotee. Sorry Prince, we’re going to have to take back Wednesday from you. Tell Anthony Martinetti it’s over. For good.

And while I’m at it, I’m disowning Kansas for electing a bunch of mouth-breathing morons to the State School Board. If I had my way, we’d be back to 49 states. And Alabama, I’d be happy to move back to 48. You’d better watch that creationism crap.

While I wait for Cmonks to notice we’re blogfighting, I’ll get back to the mundane…

Mr. Dump and I have been throwing around the idea of replacing our deck with a 3-season room. I think I’ve mentioned this before. If I haven’t, well, there you go. So we’re still in the “can we afford this” stage because basically we’re in a “cash only” mode these days, and the first quote we got, which was for something not prefab, was a little higher than I’d hoped. So we’d kind of backburnered the thing, given that I’m not going to start that kind of project until my contract is renewed for another six months (due up in June). And then Junior asked us when our new room would be done. I’m not sure where the sudden interest came from, but hey, he’s a voting member of the Big DumpTruck Management Team, right? So soon after the conversation where we had to explain that it takes a lot of money to turn your deck into a room, the pre-fab people actually called back. So I have one of them coming out a week from Thursday. I still have to call back the other company. I can’t remember which one is which from the Home Show in Fitchburg a couple of months ago. One of them was much less expensive than the others, but I was a little less sure I liked the way theirs looked. But what if it’s a case of “good enough and we can have it this year” or “wait until next year for one that’s only a little bit better” when better is relative?

So kids, anyone out there have ANY experience with having a 3 season room/enclosed porch/screen room/patio enclosure (pick a name, any name) done up here in the Leominster area? Does a neighbor have one? Are you/they happy they did it? Would you/they suggest one company over another?

Thank you for your prompt assistance. Also, any patio enclosure company that wishes to knock $3000 off the installed price can get free advertising on this site for the next 3 years! Whatta Deal!

While I wait for Cmonks to notice we’re blogfighting, I’ll get back to the mundane…

Mr. Dump and I have been throwing around the idea of replacing our deck with a 3-season room. I think I’ve mentioned this before. If I haven’t, well, there you go. So we’re still in the “can we afford this” stage because basically we’re in a “cash only” mode these days, and the first quote we got, which was for something not prefab, was a little higher than I’d hoped. So we’d kind of backburnered the thing, given that I’m not going to start that kind of project until my contract is renewed for another six months (due up in June). And then Junior asked us when our new room would be done. I’m not sure where the sudden interest came from, but hey, he’s a voting member of the Big DumpTruck Management Team, right? So soon after the conversation where we had to explain that it takes a lot of money to turn your deck into a room, the pre-fab people actually called back. So I have one of them coming out a week from Thursday. I still have to call back the other company. I can’t remember which one is which from the Home Show in Fitchburg a couple of months ago. One of them was much less expensive than the others, but I was a little less sure I liked the way theirs looked. But what if it’s a case of “good enough and we can have it this year” or “wait until next year for one that’s only a little bit better” when better is relative?

So kids, anyone out there have ANY experience with having a 3 season room/enclosed porch/screen room/patio enclosure (pick a name, any name) done up here in the Leominster area? Does a neighbor have one? Are you/they happy they did it? Would you/they suggest one company over another?

Thank you for your prompt assistance. Also, any patio enclosure company that wishes to knock $3000 off the installed price can get free advertising on this site for the next 3 years! Whatta Deal!

I’m in a really foul mood right now. You see, CMonks of Utter Wonder decided to stop writing his fake blog, I’m Stuck in Rehab with Pat O’Brien, which may be one of the stupidest moves in the history of stupid moves. I mean, c’mon, what kind of ass stops writing something that good just because it was cutting into his XBox time? Huh? Huh? The big hulking jerk….why, why, why I declare a blog war against the big dummy! That’s it! So go over to his post right here and leave him a message about what a big dummy he is. (No really, go ahead and do it. To the post I linked to, please. And don’t forget to mention where you’re coming from, but type it slowly so he’ll understand). Also, don’t forget to mention how he cheats at Hungry Hungry Hippos like a teeeny weeenie baby.