when they have stayed all week in an apartment in Los Alamos and are
eager to end the work week and get back to their lives. But, the
roofing company owner told me they would call if they're coming out
this afternoon and left no option open that they would call to tell
me they won't be here.
It's so hot in the house - 84 degrees. I'm doubly hot because I've
worn my long pants and long-sleeved shirt inside all day rather than
changing into shorts and a T shirt. The roofer said the ridge vent
would make the house cooler but I know better because I actually went
into the attic (he didn't never bothered) and saw only a few soffit
vents with light coming through - the rest are blocked by insulation
batts.
The former owners of this house had also blocked off two of the
furnace's return air vents as well as covered over the crawl space
vents. We reversed all that but would need to call out an insulation
contractor to remedy the soffit vent blockage. I sometimes wonder
what the former owners were thinking in blocking off ventilation.
After repainting the house, I doubt I'll ever want to do another
thing to it unless we have some plumbing issue. I wish we could move
into the senior condos at Oppenheimer Place. Maybe they wouldn't be
perfect and there would be other issues but at least I'd have the
satisfaction of saying adios to this house. Ungrateful as it sounds
when there are people in the world who would be so happy to have even
an old house like this, I'm done with it and want to move on! I
don't want to spend my senior years taking care of a failing body, a
decrepit old house and a gopher-hole-riddled, weed strewn backyard! I
feel trapped, not in control of my life, and I want to get out of
here!!!!
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