Our driveway is quite steep if walking up it from the lower security gate. The lower garage on the property sits under the guest house cottage but faces the lower driveway, of course, since the pool is in front of the cottage. Yesterday Husband went down to the lower garage to continue his efforts to hook up a new water heater (Day 7 or 8) ...but this time, he was gone seemingly forever. Somewhere on this property, I believe, we still have a golf cart, which probably needs a battery charged or something but be that as it may, I knew if I walked down to check on him, I would have to walk back. I would have two choices. I could walk up the stairs at the side of the garage and go through the rose garden pathway. That is probably the easiest way. However, my concern for the length of time he was down there coupled with knowing he was working on electrical caused me to make the trip.
I walk into the garage, and he is back in the corner with his hands over his head working on electrical wiring. I saw red wiring, green wiring, black wiring and blue wiring. He was telling me that Don had messed everything up with the wiring, and he was trying to straighten it out. I saw bare wires without clips on the ends, but most were clipped. I stepped far enough away from him that should he light up, I wouldn't join him. I kid you not.
Anyway, I encouraged him to give it a break and asked if he would reconsider calling our electrician. He said "No, I just need to rest." So up the hill we go together ...stopping half way on the corner to rest and then trekking on up the hill to the house. He said, "Oh, they finally took those trees out. I was hoping they would." I believe he was talking about the apple trees, which seem to have come up on the short end of our watering system. I was happy to see trimmed bushes and blooming plants in the old rose garden. The rose garden is empty of roses now, but we still call it the rose garden. It has a Magnolia tree in it and other plants with flowers. There may be a rose bush left but I didn't see one from the driveway side. It also has palm trees growing now along the edge of the driveway. I suspect Husband wants to replace the area where the apple trees once stood with palm trees too.
This morning, he (Husband) got up an hour earlier than he normally gets up ...so he got up at 10 AM, walked over to the telephone and called our electrician. You know ...Clint Eastwood says, 'Make my day." Well, that made my day to know the saga of the cottage's hot water heater would soon be over.
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