Things Are Looking Up

Workmen I was waiting for today:
Sewer Plumbers

Masons

Durham Plumbing Inspector

Cable guy

IT guy
Good news, they all showed up. The masons were first, wanting to rebuild my brick walkway with the four inch concrete pad. They were a little early since the inspector had not come yet. He did while they waited but then he failed my job. The sewer plumbers arrived and remedied the failures, but the masons had left.
The inspector came back and passed the job so the plumbers began the big job of filling in the 150 foot long, by three feet deep by two foot wide trench, trying to beat the rain.
The IT guy came to try and restore my computer from the back up. This was my most worrisome issue because we were unable to connect to my back up last week and I was desperate not to lose my life time of photos. He was able to connect and left my house so I could monitor the five hour download. It worked!  
The cable guy came because not only were many channels not working, including all premiums and on demand, but the internet in my house was gone. Now the pay TV was no big deal, and I could live without on demand, but the internet, really?
The cable guy said we had a very old line so he replaced it. Since the plumbers were here and the brick walkway that the cable line runs under was torn up I asked the plumber for a piece of PVC and had the cable guy run the line through it. When the masons come back they can rebuild the walkway over the conduit and the cable will be safe. That was excellent timing.
As I was standing out in my almost restored driveway just as the big rain was coming I heard a big crash in the back corner of my property. Turned out a dead tree on my neighbors side of my fence fell down, breaking a few boards in our old fence, but missing my garden shed by mere inches. Just as I was getting things back together a new problem arises.
We will deal with that another day. Tomorrow I get a dump truck load of river gravel from the Rock Shop and hopefully we can drive on our driveway again. Not sure how long the masonry job will take, but at least I have a new lifetime sewer line. I won’t live long enough to ever need to do this job again. Maybe I can do some gardening later in the week, work I was supposed to do two weeks ago. Some weeks of your life need to be erased from memory.