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Things started out well early that morning with Lord Dudley Mountcatten innocently gazing at the plastic room.
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Yes, I’m talking about you.
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He knows he’s not supposed to go in there, so of course it’s the only place he wants to be…
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And before long our smiling, happy contractor was busy replacing the insulation and installing strapping for the sheet rock.
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By mid afternoon he had both sides of the beam done…
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And the ceiling was ready for the next phase.
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Which is when he hit a snag.
Thankfully it wasn’t with the project per se, but when it started drizzling outside and he set up his saw in the garage to stay dry… things went a little haywire.
We love Tom. He’s a very clean and conscientious worker. So when he started cutting things in the garage, he turned on his shop vac to suck up the sawdust and splinters at the same time… but in doing so he also overloaded our sometimes squirrelly electrical system and knocked out power to the entire garage and part of my laundry room.
This resulted in a solid hour of trying to figure out why.
Thankfully Tom knows his way around electricity and after removing a few outlets, testing various circuits and doing a whole lot of other things I can’t explain…. he had it up and running again and would be able to resume work.
Until my husband came home a few minutes later and decided it was time to call it quits and consume adult beverages in the man cave.
No sheet rock was installed that day.
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But at least we had garage lights to illuminate our way home.
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River's world..... 
Sheesh
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Things were going too smoothly.
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I think hubs had the perfect answer. I’m glad you got the electricity back on. I hope it stays on.
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We have a few lines you can’t overload. Strange combinations like the living room window air conditioner and the master bathroom blow dryer. If I do my hair when the a/c is on it trips the whole house off.
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I was thinking to myself “the hubby must be at work”. And sure enough, he came home and that was it.🤣
As to Dudley….well, who could possibly admonish him😻?
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To be honest I admonish the husband more than the cat. Even the contractor told him the other day, “I’d love to stop and talk but you’re paying me to work.”
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Yikes. I know what it’s like to trace those problems, and they aren’t always easy to fix.
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When they built the addition to this house in ‘94 I think they piggybacked the closest lines. It’s crazy.
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Your Contractor seems like a great man commenting to your Hubby that way.
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He’s learning my husband won’t stop talking on his own…
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That’s good of him to figure out why you lost power. Other guys would have called it quits right there and then. His Lordship will not be pleased until his castle is back to normal.
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Our contractor felt like it was his fault so he should fix it. Is it any wonder we like him..?
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“He knows he’s not supposed to go in there, so of course it’s the only place he wants to be…” HIS LITTLE FACE. 🖤🤣
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I know. It’s impossible to be mad…
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I’m not totally surprised that a circuit breaker went wonky, because that’s often the price you pay for trying to repair anything in your house. I’m glad you have a man cave to fall back on in times of trouble.
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Thankfully that has an entirely separate system.
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lol…glad to see it’s working out.
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It wouldn’t be a proper project without at least one snag! (Or one adult beverage, come to think of it.)
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You make a valid point.
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Oh my God, Dudley is SO CUTE.
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He is.
This is true…
😉
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