Don't Bother Your Neighbors

Since we have little yapping dogs, and our friends across the street kid us about hearing them bark from the back from thier home. So Don and Bonnie are dog sitting a collie named Nick, Don was playing with Nick by the side of his house and Nick was barking. I stopped painting the deck rockers to poke fun at Don.

So, I went over to joke about hearing Nick bark. Well this started a sequence of events that I had not planned on. First Don introduced me to his friend from Arizona, Al. While sitting on thier deck visiting with Don and Al, Bonnie and Al's wife, Joan joined us. Bonnie called Stacy over for lunch and the rest of the day was a blur.

Stacy and Bonnie had been to Lowes earlier in the week and picked out a ceiling fan for her birthday. Not wanting to install a fan today, I kind of played it off as having too much to do. Well, Bonnie says she knows a great electrician, Al. The next thing I know, Al volunteers to install the fan. While trying to be polite and thank Al and to let him know he was on vacation and I could not ask him to work.

So now I'm on my way to Lowes, spending an hour while Stacy gets the fan, the extension bar, pull chains, light bulbs and some hardware. I get to the register, and the cashier says, $150.00!!

Now we're back at the house and Don and Al come over and install this 6 armed fan in the dining room. They did an outstanding job and did not use my favorite tool, a hammer. Both of them thought they we're in charge of this production and I listened to them give each other orders on how to do the next task. I stepped back as these two old friends started throwing playfull verbal barbs at each other.

Once completed, Stacy was about a happy camper as you can get. Giggles, squeels and much jumping and hand clapping.

If I had just stayed home instead of kidding Don about Nick, I could have saved a bundle.

Al on the left and Don on the right.
The whirling 6 armed, $150.00 birthday fan.