The rest of the story

 The Case of the Mistaken Deck Billing has been resolved happily. After an exchange of emails, the manager  asked if my contractor could attest to having done the work on the deck.  

It occurred to me that I could send pictures from the blog of the work in progress. I'd been keeping contractor Michael informed because I was talking about him and I'm a believer in Nothing About Us Without Us.

So to save contractor Michael from being imposed on further, I sent this to the HOA

Proving that the deck was never an obstacle to the fencing, and that the small work required was done before they arrived, pictures dated. 

And promptly got a response thanking me and agreeing to correct the record. So there was an unexpected bonus to blogging. 

I felt like a character from a TV detective series -- "perhaps THIS will refresh your memory!" -- flourishing in court the proof which will make the bad guy confess, then, like Perry Mason, all the lawyer's team adjourn to a Chinese restaurant.

Anyway it's settled and Michael didn't see the texts and emails until it was resolved, so he read it all with some amusement. I wonder how many other mistakes the fencing company made in their billing, they not being so good at the paperwork back at HQ.

I think I might consider this as a retirement income -- claim to have done work I didn't, bill for it, and force the victim, I mean client, to prove a negative. Not many people will have the receipts as I did. This could work ;)

And in other important news,  my vote has now been cast, in the dropbox outside the town hall. 

The building you see is the Police department, and the dropbox, you can just see the top of it, is in a 24/7 camera surveilled area, security guaranteed. It's emptied daily by officials from the Board of Elections. So I'll soon be able to track that it's been received.

Meanwhile reading has been happening, and this is very entertaining, beachy but still fun to read and very well researched. It's the next part of the lives of Emmy and Bunty, now crusading journo and sidekick

And this is the upcoming weekend treat

Mma Ramotswe rides again.

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The dental visit went well on Thursday,  hygienist Courtney giving me an excited account of her new pregnancy, she must just have found out, her Lasik surgery, her husband's color blindness, her hopes that the baby would escape it, a very entertaining background to the cleaning process. 

Then while the dentist followed up with the permanent crown installation, I got his concerns about water in the western states, and how dams with reduced flow are generating less power and what a contrast with Florida with more water than they can handle.  Quite an educational time, I thought as I left with my $150 toothbrush.

Happy day everyone, today I'm sorting two boxes of stuff winnowed by handsome Son, for Freecycling or thriftie donation. He's so pressed for time that it's a great help to his decluttering now that it occurred to me to do the disposal for him.  And he certainly needs to declutter.

Hoping all our lives are decluttered, educated, and the good guys win the billing, and other, wars. And Happy Thanksgiving, Canadian friends!