Our house is twenty years old and starting to need a lot. It is like a money pit has opened up under our feet. We need new carpet in two bedrooms, the trim on the house replaced and a drip ledge and on and on. We decided to replace the trim and dripledge first and is it ever expensive. It has to be squirrel proof. We have someone coming this week to do the trim and I h ave had second thoughts all week but Ted thinks it is the thing to do. It means no vacation in 2009.

I realize things could be a lot worse. We had to have a new central heat and air last year. Ugh! There are a lot of things that we can do ourselves like power wash the decks and seal them and maybe put up a Sunbrella. I long for a screened in porch. The mosquitos and such are bad here.

See you later, after I cheer up.....Jeri