29°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 47° today.
I sent an email to our landscaper at the end of November detailing our disappointment in the lack of progress on our pond renovation. I listed the myriad promises he'd made us and not kept over the course of the last eight months, for a project that shouldn't have taken more than a couple of weeks or even a month at most. I told him I needed two things from him; 1) a schedule to complete the work in a timely manner, and 2) for him to adhere to that schedule. No more excuses, just results. Naturally, we didn't hear back from him by the date I told him we needed it the following week. He finally sent a text message to The Wife last week asking if she got his schedule. She told him we'd both been checking email and junk folders, and had received nothing. She asked him to send it again. We still have not received it. Yesterday, he showed up with a couple of skid steers, a couple more loads of fill dirt, and a mini-ex to start digging the new overflow drainage down to the road ditch.
(shaking my head) Like RNG and his ex-mechanic, I'll be glad to be done with this guy. He's making me use blue language.
Bummer about the gout, Phil. Hope it gets better.
Nice pics, Ron.
