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Used backhoe loader

by Mary Anne

Have you ever the saying “the difference between a man and a boy is the price of his toy?” Every time my hubby and I drive past a construction site he gets just as excited as a little six year old boy playing with construction toys in a sandbox. He exclaims “look at that backhoe” or “look at that dump truck” or “look at the size of that bull dozer.”

I’m never quite sure whether to feign interest or tell him I’m too busy trying to drive the car to be looking at the construction equipment. I’m sure he misses running his landscaping company that we used to run a few years back before we moved. He wanted to bring all of his equipment with him, but I insisted that we would not be self-employed after we moved. So he sold the business. He wanted to sell it lock, stock and barrel all together as a turn-key business but ended up selling it piecemeal. One of his employees bought the used backhoe loader and the used bull dozer from him. His father co-signed the bank papers for him to be able to buy them from us. Instead of listing the used compact tractor for sale he did convince me that he was going to need that down here to help do the landscaping work on the three acres of land we bought down here. He did list four of the used trucks for sale in the Uncle Henry’s magazine and ended up selling three of them that way, and he decided to give the fourth one to his daughter.

At least once a week, though, he teases me that he is going to go out and spend a couple of thousand dollars on some kind of construction equipment that we don’t need. I always tell him to buy himself a new wife while he is at it!


Credit reports/identity theft?

by Mary Anne

A short while ago I filled up my gas tank at a Texaco station.  I saw that they were running a special rebate promotion for new Texaco credit card holders, so when I got home I went online and applied for a new Texaco credit card for myself, and a separate one for my hubby.

I got my card a few days later, but I noticed in my email in-box was a rejection letter for my hubby’s card.  It turns out that he was rejected because they don’t think he is him!  They said that they rejected him based on information from a credit report company.  So I printed it off and gave it to my hubby and told him to call the credit report company, which he has been trying to do all morning long.  I am concerned that this may have something to do with an identity theft attempt! 


Totalled

by Mary Anne

When my parents bought themselves a miniature RV, I asked them to let me buy it from them when they decided that they were tired of it and wanted to get rid of it. So when they gave it to my brother for free I was quite upset. Seems that he is always getting things for free from my folks while all I get is the shaft. Well, my brother used it to trade in on a larger RV to use to take to the races that he likes. He neglected to buy motorhome insurance on his new RV and his RV slipped out of gear when parked on a hill in his back yard. No one was hurt, but the RV is totalled. I feel evil that I don’t feel bad about it.


Future steel buildings

by Mary Anne

When we were looking at houses to buy in this area, I was adamant that the house have a basement, but that all of the daily living functions would be on only one floor. I did not want to have to worry about someone trying to go up and down stairs to go to bed, or to do the laundry. So that meant that we needed a ranch style or a rambler style house to meet my list of demands. As far as my husband was concerned, he was all about the garage. He wanted to have a detached garage that would be large enough for him to store a lot of his mechanics tools and his hobby vehicles.

One of the houses that we looked at had a large garage by Future Steel Buildings off to the side of the house. My husband fell right in love with that place, and his eyes shone with excitement when we were taking the tour of the garage. He could not have cared less if there was a refrigerator or stove in the kitchen, but I’ll tell you that he fell right in love with that garage!

Well, we ended up buying a different house, but my husband has been lobbying for a new Future steel buildings garage in the back ever since we moved in. I’ve told him to get some quotes together and we’d take a look at our finances and see if we could refinance the house with a lower interest rate and get some equity out of it in order to get him that garage that he is pining away for!  I’m thinking that if I get him his garage, maybe he’ll be more inclined to do some of the automotive maintenance things that I need done to my car from time to time! Maybe he’ll even install a remote starter for me!


A nice hand made gift

by Mary Anne

When I was shopping last week, I saw some enclosed bulletin boards on the walls of the store. These enclosed cork bulletin boards were being used to display public service notices and I have to assume that they were enclosed to prevent the items from becoming damaged. They weren’t locked, so it was not a matter of trying to prevent theft, I think it was just to eliminate dust and reduce maintenance.

But when I noticed them, it gave me a great idea for a gift for my hubby for Christmas! He dearly loves his Harley Davidson, and I have several pictures of him on it. I’m thinking about making a collage of sorts, embellished with scrapbooking trinkets and putting it all in a couple of shadow boxes or  enclosed fabric bulletin boards. He can hang it on the wall in the garage near his Harley, or hang it on the wall in the bedroom. He’ll be thrilled!


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