April 9, 2011
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Yesterday I bought two lilac bushes and planted them. They should be dead within the week.
The electrician came to put in the hall wall lights and the big kitchen light. I'd decided to have the electrician do it because I wanted it to be right. / He'd been supposed to come on Thursday, but there was some sort of electrical crisis and the whole company was unavailable. He was supposed to come Friday at 3 pm, but he showed up at 2 pm. Making up for Thursday, I guess.
1. He broke a clip on one of the lights, so the glass cover is hanging on by a thread, so to speak.
2. He drilled through the wall from the hall into the library. Fortunately, the new hole is about a foot away from the book shelves.
He told me about the clip. We put it down to a packaging error on the part of whichever Chinese guy made the lamp. (I didn't tell him about the hole, since I didn't want to upset him. He was young and cute and nice.)
Today I'm going to cut the grass. A HUGE moment in my new life.
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Comments (3)
Made me laugh.
(in a good way)
The thing about hiring people is you don't know how good they are until they're done. Then you know whether to hire them again or not. When I had a new roof put on the house in Davis I got very lucky and had great roofers. The reason I chose them is because they were the only company who actually answered the phone and I talked to a real person instead of leaving a message on a machine.
Good luck with the lilac bushes. I'm sure they'll be OK.
On a site, they say that the lilas are "peu exigeant et remarquable pour sa vigueur et sa longévité". I'm pretty sure lilacs behave the same.
However, if I remember well, they don't flower the first year or something like that. I guess it's to give it time to have sex with itself. I suppose this has nothing to do with the "play" they mention about Lila.
Your real life description of a "dilemma" was pretty accurate.
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