Steve is driving forty-four miles a day to his part-time job and it's a lot of short hours. I typed a resume and covering letter for him; maybe he can find something closer. I told him to make copies, but also to mail one to the place Love worked.
I paid Steve for putting up the CB antenna and helping me spray Mom's house for cockroaches.
It rained and made it impossible to start cleaning out the garage for my garage sale. I hope I can make some money from it; I will need it.
I also don't have another roommate yet, and I need the extra income. I have to open the pool within the next two weeks and the chemicals are expensive. I have to pay the June installment of Mom's property taxes of $259.00, my house payment of $150.00, the Great Gas God of $167.00 since the government's HEAP funding isn't dispersed yet, my phone bill of $50.00 and the water bill of $31.00. That's a total of $651.00 in the next two weeks, without any other expenses. My total income for that same period is $481.00. Needless to say, I will have to spend Love's death insurance benefit for things other than fixing the roof. I will need minimally $170.00 for other expenses; food, car gas, cockroach spray, powder and bombs for my house and maybe more for Mom's house too, and pool chemicals, plus anything else that comes up.
I wanted to spray for the woodroaches here today, but the stores are closed because of the holiday.
I made a pot of chilli. Steve and I finished it off in quick order.
Love's beloved elderberries have survived the winter. Hooray!
My bathtub is leaking. The water from the faucet is coming out faster than the drain can get rid of it. I caulked a large washer in the tub drain, but I don't know whether the drain is sufficiently reduced in water flow to slow the drainage enough to prevent leaking when Steve takes his next shower. Currently the bathroom, part of the hall and part of Steve's bedroom are flooded. At least the faucets aren't leaking. I don't have enough money for a major plumbing repair right now.
Fortunately, I am not totally dependent on ADC or welfare now, because I wouldn't have any money to kill the roaches and they would be allowed to multiply without me being able to do anything about it until both houses were uninhabitable. Ditto, termites or anything else that might beset the average homeowner.
