We bought a new garbage disposal yesterday, $148. Today the Roto Rooter man is installing it for $375. The worst part was that he was supposed to be here between 8 and noon. I got up at five and had everything out from under the sink and the whole house cleaned by 7:50 and he didn't come until 1 o'clock, so that's a lot of sitting by the window waiting. Right now he's at the store because, you know, those vans never have anything actually in them.
Before he came I had five phone calls making sure I was here. Heaven forbid they come out and no one is home. How inconvenient that would be for them.
You have all my sympathy in the “hurry up and wait” game, which always seems to be one-sided. I also get those phone calls.
I like it when they call me and say the driver can’t get in because your gate is locked. I say of course it is. I left you instructions to have him text me coming up the hill so I could go down and unlock the gate. Don’t you have them? That’s usually followed by long silence which tells me yes they have them, but they didn’t do their job the way they were supposed to and now the driver is waiting at the gate for me to drive 500 feet down there and let him in —- after I get my winter coat and shoes on.
My dilemma today is in the products department —- horse feed and digestive supplements to be precise.
I bought 150 pounds of senior feed for my 30 year-old a week ago and it had an overfill of peanut oil in it. I would post a picture if it would upload, but I don’t think it will. The overfill was so bad that I had to put sand on the floor of my garage. Triple Crown is trying to make it better by sending me enough coupons to essentially reimburse me the hundred dollars for the 150 pounds of feed.
Moving right along I have bought Uckele GUT for hind gut pH balance for my horses for quite a few years.
Suddenly, I can’t find it. Being the person that I am, I also called Uckele’s 800 number after I talk to the horse feed people. I find out the manufacturer of this gut product sold it to SmartPak, an Equine product provider that I don’t like. Worse than that, SmartPak got bought out by Chewy. There are a lot of people who have dogs and cats who know what Chewy is. So now Chewy is in the business of selling horse products because there’s a lot of money in it.
Chewy rebranded this GUT product and put their name on it. I’m not sure if I’m going to buy it because I don’t like Chewy, but I may be forced to buy it if I can’t find anything similar to it. It works very well on my horses. It’s not cheap either, it’s about $53 for 2 pounds. Yes I will spend the money on them. My senior horse is 30 years old, I won’t have him much longer. Until his time comes, I fully intend to make his life on this earth as comfortable as I possibly can. I give thanks every day that I am able to provide for him.
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