Just do it

We have a house scheduled for a rental inspection. One bedroom had 2 small windows in it when we purchased it. Jason the inspector let it pass 7 years ago because he said, although it was not an egress window, he could get out through it if he had to. Then 3 years later Harrison was the inspector. He was not pleased with the size of the window but he passed it because it had passed once. 

Now the couple using the bedroom has a baby. the baby sleeps in the room with them. We put in a much larger window. Even if we might have been able to call the "but it has passed twice" argument, there is no way I could live with myself if the couple had a fire and didn't get out with the baby because we didn't want to change the window out. We didn't have to reframe it because at some point in distant history an owner of the house thought this room should have small windows and just filled in most of the space of the old larger windows.

We hired a roofing company to put shingles on this house. There is an almost flat roof over the kitchen and the attached garage. We are going to put steel on that portion so just asked for a quote on the shingled part. When they were working on the roof Matthew asked why they weren't putting shingles on the porch. Oh, our bid was just for the steep roof, doesn't include the low pitch porch. Yea, I did that the next day. That little job made me think I am not getting any younger. Boy was I tired and sore and it was only a square and a third. Not that many years back I shingled several roofs like the steep part in a year.

We also found out we have a house with a shared private sewer line. Our house is the lowest on the hill. Our poor tenants had other's sewage in their basement one morning when the line plugged just past their house. 

Irv dug it up and pumped out the, oh, lets call it waste water. Cody cleaned out the plug and the line is open. We provided a free service to the other houses on the line because well, their drains were flowing real good down into our house's basement.

Matthew called me and asked me to go look at a bathtub that was leaking. Fiberglass tub looked good when we bought the house but had a crack in it now. We had to cut the tub and surround into 2 foot pieces to get it out.

We put in a new steel tub on Friday afternoon and tiled the surround today. I cut tile while Matthew stuck them to the wall. I could hardly keep ahead of him. we were finished in an hour and 15 minutes. Grout it on Monday and a much better tub and surround.

We had the tree this limb came out of trimmed a few years back. The tree service said the tree was in good shape and we didn't need to be concerned about it. That might have been a bit optimistic. We cut up the limb and hauled it away. the garage will need to be taken down as well. It not only crushed the roof, it also moved the garage over about 6 inches. The rest of the tree is scheduled to be removed

The tree company we use now removed another one for us this week. Took right at an hour to cut it down, slice it up, load it on trucks and haul it off.

This tree died 2 years ago. It is right on the property line of my yard. About 2 inches of the trunk is on my yard the rest on the neighbor. Our neighbor is concerned it is going to hit our house if it falls. I think it will be close but not quite a solid hit. We are going to split the cost and take it down. He wants to pay the entire bill but I keep arguing that it is my gain not his, if the tree is gone.

We could have argued that the window was large enough. We could have argued that the roofing bid was on the shingled part not the "steep" part. We could tell the neighbors whose sewage we cleaned up, Hey this is your bill. We could have told the tenants, look I don't know how the tub cracked but we are just going to patch it and do it cheap. I could go after the tree company that told me the tree was solid, but I think they did their best. I could let my neighbor cover all the cost of taking down the tree that is 80% on his property. 

We could do all those things, but would it be the right think to do. Not asking if it is the legal thing to do. Is it the moral thing to do?

This is a picture of some of our grandkids. That is Caleb hanging onto his dad's hand and reaching back pulling Ella along. I want to be like that. holding my father in Heaven's hand and pulling others along with my father and me as I walk through life. Some days that might be a bit expensive in dollars but I trust my Father to take care of that, and He does.