Pools and Milk

Well, the weekend is upon us and the pool drama continues. The workers seriously ruined our sprinkler system. There are several feet of pipe uprooted all along the side of our house...totally broken and ripped to shreds. The pool company refused to pay for a penny of the damages, instead referring to a form that the homeowner signed (our neighbor) saying he was responsible for any damage to the neighbors yard. So our neighbor now has to pay to have our entire sprinkler system redone. Needless to say, he is furious and so are we. The men who came in to demo the yard never measured or even looked over the yard. They just railroaded right in and ruined everything without even attempting to avoid the damage. That is just wrong. Since they are still going back and forth with heavy machinery, we can't have our sprinkler system fixed yet. So our neighbor went out and bought us old school sprinklers that we have to use for god knows how long. This is NOT cool.

In Colin news, he is officially off formula as of today! I finished the last of the formula yesterday around lunch time and we switched to milk cold turkey. Colin has not even blinked! I had been giving him a milk bottle at bedtime for the last week to get him used to the taste, and he loved it. So we went to milk full time yesterday afternoon and he is doing great so far. My baby is turning into such a big boy!!!

The View From My Back Door

Day one of my neighbor's pool construction and this is my view. You know what the best part is? See that white spec in the middle of the dirt in the bottom picture? That is our main water line for the sprinkler system. Which is now completely destroyed. When you turn our sprinklers on, no water comes out anywhere but a geyser out of that pipe. In the middle of July. In Texas. No sprinklers. GOOD TIMES. As you can imagine, Jer is going over to talk to our neighbor as we speak. He is a really nice guy by the way...it is not his fault that the pool idiots already broke our yard. I just hope this does not have to get ugly with the pool company...they are going to have to repair our sprinkler system NOW. The temps are over 100 this week and dry as a bone and two days without water will mean a dead yard. Did I mention it is not my pool? I think they should go ahead and put one in my yard for free since they already busted up my whole yard. That is reasonable, right?