Slow Week

It's been a pretty slow week around here...so far. 

Monday the insurance adjustor and the contractor finally got together and looked at the hail damage (happened in April) on our roof.  Bottom line?  We've got enough damage that we're getting a new roof.  The contractor said he's busy so it would be at least two weeks, but he called last night and materials are being delivered today and the crew will be here to do the roof probably Thursday or Friday.  I'm wondering if he pushed it through since I've gotten him at least one other job (possibly two) and he hit it off so well with our insurance adjustor that the adjustor is going to hire him when he needs an independent inspector.

Yesterday's excitement was a trip to the mall for weed whacker string with a stop at Barnes & Noble to pick up the new releases from my two favorite authors.  Then last night was Bible study, which was about a woman's call to homemaking....which is not one of my natural gifts, so it was interesting.  More interesting?  I'm teaching the second half next week.

The phone rang right after I got home last night.  Caller ID said it was a man, who used to be a friend when we were all much younger, and then he did some really stupid things that got his name in the paper.....and landed a car of ours in the bottom of a reservoir (it was at this man's garage until we had money to fix it up...not a priority since it was a spare).  The police said it was used in some drug dealings before it was dumped.  The key hung in this guy's office.  We were pretty sure he allowed the car to be used.  Anyway, we didn't see him after that.  Having someone put you in the position of the police wondering if you're involved in something like that definitely makes you put a lot of distance between you.  We'd heard he'd cleaned up his act over the years but we didn't see him, so last night's call was a shock.  It seems he was robbed last week.  Someone broke into his truck and stole a few things.  A pain, but no biggie....until it turned out they had taken some of his checks and used them.  So now his bank account is frozen until the mess gets straightened out....another 7-10 days.  He needed money for gas so he could go to work.  He couldn't reach any of his family and apparently everyone else said no....or why else would he have thought to call us.  He had to be desperate.

My gut reaction was "Oh, hell NO!"  I thought it took a lot of nerve to call us.  Tim, who likes to save and rescue people said, "Yes."  We have the number of the police officer on the case to verify that this is the truth and when we took him the money he was so grateful he nearly cried and you could tell he was really humiliated that he'd had to ask.  Which made me feel terrible for the things I'd been thinking.

Today is another rainy day so nothing exciting again.  I will probably just read after I do a little cleaning....take advantage of the quiet because tomorrow or Friday it will be Bam!Bam!Bam! as the old roof comes off and the new one goes on.