What Have We Done!?! (What we have done)

On our last episode of Buckaroo Drywall, our heroes had fallen into darkness... Let's cut right to it cus, full disclosure, this blog is running about a month behind our actual lives and I want to rubber-band snap us all right to the present. *SNAP* With a bunch of holes in the house from necessary surgery, Brie used Nextdoor to find us a reputable, local contracting service. Brie has become fully obsessed with Nextdoor, a social media app, which though initially designed for people physically living near each other to make contact and communicate, quickly devolved into people with nothing better to do making a general fool of themselves publicly while they air neighborly complaints, post endless drivel like it's there own private journal, and general be the worst that humanity has to offer. Here's a choice description from Wikipedia, " Nextdoor has been criticized for enabling its users to  racially profile   people of color .   As a platform, it also has been accu...

 You may recall that mid-March I sent out two of our long-owned, hard-used rugs to a local carpet cleaning service along with a hand hooked rug made by my grandfather (my Pop Pop) that I'm fortunate to have in my care. A man named Kevin came to collect them and stated that they would be ready for return delivery in 9-14 days. They were returned to us a month later, two of them still damp.  Turns out one of the rugs (dating back to Knoxville) really wasn't salvageable and so it's now ready to be bulk garbage come next Friday. The other is a little rough but usable and so it's standing guard in Brie's office until an upgrade comes along.  Worth noting that it took 3 phone calls after the two week projection had passed to spur the cleaning service into some sort of action. As Kevin tells it, the worst rug needed to be cleaned multiple times as they attempted to exorcise the animal nastiness that comes with 10 years of cats and dogs and humans being utter filth. I had a...