So yesterday for fosteronfilm‘s birthday, we had many guests over who abused our hospitality. And they’re still here! They’re small, six-legged, have ravenous appetites for wood pulp, and are uneducated on the nuances of etiquette and good manners, especially the “don’t eat your host’s house” one and also “don’t overstay your welcome.”
Yep, we have termites. We’d let our termite coverage slide during the year-o-poverty-and-unemployment, but now that we’ve got a regular income coming in again, we’re taking care of all those things we let lapse in order to minimize the amount of money hemorrhaging out of our savings. Renewing our termite coverage was high on our priority list and good thing too. Seems the little buggers haven’t done a huge amount of damage yet, only chewing through one baseboard (which is fortunately no longer on an outside wall, as it’s on the side of the house we built a sunroom on during more prosperous times.) But there is a hole there which we’ll need to see about calling a contractor in at some point to fix.
The exterminators are charging us $850 to evict our unwelcome visitors. *Gurgle* But, as a bonus, they’ll take care of our yellowjacket wasp nest for free.
Sigh. We’re sort of over a barrel on this one, so we gave them the go-ahead. We could get an estimate from another company, but we’ve had Terminix before, and they would charge comparable rates (if I recall correctly), and I wasn’t particularly impressed by them.
The creepy-crawlies here are bigger, meaner, and scarier than their brethren up north, one of the few things I dislike about living in the South.
Writing Stuff
Received:
– 201-day sale of “A Parade of Taylups” to Aberrant Dreams, my third to these fine folks. Woohoo!
– 254-day French reprint sale to Faeries of “Of Two Minds in Lanais” (which originally appeared in Brigham-Young’s Leading Edge in 2004). This is also my third sale to this excellent publication. Yay!
Sorry to hear about the termites. Nasty buggers.
But congrats on your sale to Aberrant Dreams! I made one too.. 🙂
Thanks for both the congrats and the commiseration! Crossing my fingers that we’ll get to share a Toc!
Mazel tov x 2!
Thankee kindly x2!
Gah! Away, evil beasties!
And YAY on the sales!! Gotta love those! 🙂
Hee! Part of me is groaning at the termite infestation while the other is hurraying. Multitasking . . .
Congrats on the sales!
Thanks, sweetie!
In Georgia, the question is not IF you’ll get termites but WHEN you’ll get termites. I’m glad that you found someone willing to treat and bond without installing the “monitoring stations”. To me, those have always been the equivalent of trying to keep dogs away from your house by spreading dog food in your yard.
You didn’t say who you are going with but I saw in the paper today where Orkin just got a lawsuit against them certified as class action for falsifying annual inspections. Down here, make sure your bonding company actually does the inspection every year…not just sends you a bill.
“In Georgia, the question is not IF you’ll get termites but WHEN“
So I’m learning. Yikes.
“You didn’t say who you are going with“
We’re using Arrow. Don’t know much about them, but said he’d heard good things about them.
“Orkin just got a lawsuit against them certified as class action for falsifying annual inspections.“
Whoa. VERY glad we decided not to go with them!
at least your yellowjacket problem isn’t as bad as this.
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060717/NEWS02/607170317/1009