Well, the week started with me finding water in my basement where the new wall met the old one after only .3" of rain on the weekend. The contractor was responsive and the week went up from there.
After texting a pic of the wet floor, I called Chris first thing Monday and he said it was normal but he'd come the next day to check. I worked for 45 minutes that morning with Cindy and then made strawberry/rhubarb pie to take to knitting. I also made a small one for Tim, my one time contractor who had checked out the wall and expressed concern with the grading. When I dropped it off he read me the riot act calling BS on water being "normal".
Chris came on Tuesday morning and said he'd extend the wall to the house where there's only a crawl space under the addition. He came on Friday morning and got it all done except for a small piece of a capstone because he ran out. He's also be coming back to paint the outside trim around the egress window. With zero rain in the forecast and drought conditions, it'll be awhile before it's tested but I'm happy with his willingness to extend the wall.
I had some fun with friends this week. On Tuesday, I went to Project Hail Mary in Omaha with Lori. Great movie and I did a much needed Aldi run on the way home before a Ripples zoom at 6:00. Lovely day. I went to campus on Thursday, planning to hit the Hort Club plant sale before meeting with the Emeriti-Retirees membership committee. Alas, when I got there at 9:15, the line to pay was already so long that there was no way I'd make my 10:00 meeting so I grabbed Darla and we went to the Union Starbuck's. After the meeting, I went to lunch with Dana and Cindy at Fattoush for yummy middle eastern food. I ended the week with an Omaha run with Andrea. I didn't need to go but did anyway. We hit Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and the library book sale. It was past lunch so we went to Brazen Head where we both ordered "chowder", which was just soup. $9 fail in my book. Oh well.
I did get some gardening done too. I put up the new fence I bought on Temu this winter, which took longer than I thought to put together, and then loaded it up with the forsythia branches I'd cut to give access to my backyard from the alley for the dirt removal. I was home early enough on Saturday that I prepped the raised bed where I plant early veg, which was late but the weather hadn't cooperated so it is what it is. I cleaned up the hog panels and the driveway sunflowers to get ready for planting pole beans there later. I planted the veg bed on Sunday, put all my overwintered plants outside and then grabbed my friend Lorri to do a flower buying run to Bomgaar's, which was fun.
In other things, I did the cats twice - Friday and my usual Sunday. I went to poll worker training on Wednesday night, which was honestly horribly done with no agenda and no direction on which of the many packets they were following. At least I met 2 women I'd be working with and they're poll working veterans so I can rely on them having learned very little that night.
