Trees

We just seem to have the worst luck with tree removal/trimming companies...It could be that we are cheap and don't want to pay $1500 to get 9 limbs cut down or that we just pick the wrong companies...there are so many in the yellow pages. Even when we ask friends who they used we have bad experiences. Most of the time they never come to do the job when they say they are or they never get the job done quickly. We had some trees removed about 5 years ago in our backyard and we had a horrible experience...we learned alot of lessons from that...we are now trying to get 9 limbs cut out from 2 trees and it is another mess. We got 3 quotes ranging from $1500 to $600, of course we took the low price but the guy is giving us the run around and hasn't come out yet...it's been about 3 weeks...so today I told him to forget it after he lied to me and gave me a load of you know what. So we are back to getting quotes...all of this delays us opening up the pool and getting the backyard cleaned up for the summer. It 's a good thing that our summers here last until late September. Brad's sister Bonnie and her son Josh are coming for a visit Sunday for the week (they are staying in Williamsburg) and will be down at our house some and I wanted it all done but no luck there.

So a little update on our flood...everything is dried out, I have been praying that no mold has started to grow, I haven't seen any signs of it so hopefully we got it in time. And my dad has saved us again...he has a carpet guy that he has worked with on his flip houses and he is coming tomorrow to stretch the carpet back and put the new padding down...he will be nice and cheap (there's that word again :-) ). Thanks Dad!!!!