Ah! Such conflicting info! I will rise above it... I have no need of lies nor of stories or excuses!!! Painter. Ok he's still around ... I just printed off a hold harmless form for us to sign BEFORE he goes onto the roof tomorrow errr today. He purports to having just been laid off where he was a paralegal, so surely I won't have to explain ANYTHING to him, right???

I'll feel better with that signed, even though it won't have a witness. He has joked about falling off the roof twice now. I hadn't said a thing to provoke those comments! I HATE this stuff.

Ok... calming ... breathing... soon it will be done. If he gets his tushy in gear! sorry. When I was young I learned how to paint houses under a master painter... and I have been teaching this young man several things! I also told him most ppl would have fired him by now, but I had hope that he would learn. I haven't given in to him on many requests (that he makes out of laziness.) One included is I will not back down on his cleaning the paint off my shutters!!!

Ok I ramble... but... his last efforts today was to suggest he just paint over them (NO WAY do I want paint on baked in shutter finish!) and then he said he would go buy something..could he have an advance of$20. No. HUH? lol NO I said, if anything he is going to learn and remember that by not doing what he knew to do (tape the area) and being lazy, is costing him more headache, time and money than it was worth!!