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January has been a long month!

I didn't know 31 days could last so long.

Not only was it one of the coldest months in memory, it also turned out to be one of the most expensive.

First it was my PC which had to be replaced, costing about $600. Then Edie's car needed a new set of tires to the tune of $650, and if that wasn't bad enough, the power steering pump in my [20 year old] Lexus finally reached the point it needed replacement as well, adding an additional $450 to the count.

The truth of the matter is, these weren't that unexpected. I had been aware of all 3 problems for quite awhile, even the power steering pump on the Lexus, so it wasn't a complete surprise. I just wasn't planning for it all to occur within a 2 week period. I would have liked to have been able to spread it out over a longer period.

Oh well, as I always like to say, such is life, and here's hoping for a better February.
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Mark VanKirk said…
Just started getting quotes to get rid of Termites.....$2100 was the first of 3 quotes.
1:27 AM
Marc said…
And that's about the going price.

We did that last January. (January appears always to be a bad month.) We went with the borax treatment though, didn't want to tent the house.
1:44 AM
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