A week or two ago, our land lady called to tell us she's having the windows on the house redone. She gave me the impression that the workers wouldn't need to be inside, except for a little bit. At the time, we weren't sure if we were going to be traveling during the time the windows would be done or not. Our land lady said it would be fine if we weren't, but she would need to be at the house to let the workers in, and to be there while they worked. Fine.

So, a night or two ago, Larry spoke with our land lord. He told us the workers would be at our house sometime between 8 and 8:30am. Fine.

This morning, bright and early, the workers showed up. And needed to be inside. Not fine.

Larry and I both had the impression we wouldn't be impacted much by the window replacement. However, having to have workers inside your house from 8am to 5pm for FOUR DAYS is a bit of an inconvenience. They are starting in the front room, which is where Larry likes to relax. The days the workers will be here are exactly the last days of Larry's leave. God forbid he should be able to relax during that time!

Also, we're going to have to move a bunch of things around, and the house is going to get cold from the windows being completely gone (even if temporarily). If we want to go anywhere (which we were planning on), we now have to coordinate it with our land lady, so that someone is here and the house isn't unlocked and unsupervised (the integrity and moral fiber of the workers notwithstanding).

So it's not the end of the world, but it's darned annoying.

What capped it though, is how rude and condescending our land lady was about the whole thing. I went upstairs to get cleaned up, and apparently while I was doing that, she was pretty rude to Larry. I admire his self control, because he managed not to say anything. (Apparently that was mainly because Ryan was standing right there.) Anyone that knows me and Larry, knows that being condescended to is right at the top of our pet peeve list. 

What's annoying too, is that two years ago when we had the heating bill from hell, our land lady didn't want to do anything about the windows (which are very drafty and leak a lot of heat - heating a 100+ year old two storey Victorian house is not cheap or easy). Now that we're leaving in two months, she's suddenly replacing them. Grr...

Anyhow, just had to rant and share.

I think we're just going to go about our business as usual as much as possible. I actually do feel a bit sorry for Larry, because it's his domain they are disrupting right now, and it is his vacation time. Work is very stressful, and he's earned a bit of decompression time vegging in front of his computer.

What's really going to be difficult is when they do our lounge (living room). We LIVE in that room, and it makes up the bulk of the downstairs part of the house. Not being able to be in there is going to suck. (There will probably be a rant about that when it happens.

Until then... I have already started working on my blog entry on our trip up to Scotland, and hope to have that up soon. Hope everyone has a good week!