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Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 10:26 pmLate April is when I bleed money, but of course if I'm going to suddenly up and call a junk service to take that wood away from my back yard I can't stand it a minute longer, I will bleed more. Yes I could have/ should have got estimates but paralysis of the will doesn’t work like that. The guys I got started at a very reasonable $165 for a small load, much better than the 400 I paid last time, but it turns out that a disassembled deck is much more than 'small'. So it came in at just under 300 because I was too wimpy to refuse a tip.
Then the gardener came to remove my mulberry and chop my hedge down 2/3. We shall see if this encourages it to grow back bushier or if it really has run its course. 'It doesn’t get enough sun to really grow,' she said, which is true, because when I planted it there were no trees on my front lawn and now there are two. She only charges $55 an hour and I don’t think she took an hour over the work.
Then my taxes come Purolatoring back to me, ending one of April's chronic anxieties ('will they be done in time?') and pinging the others ('How much do I owe this time?') Accountants have raised their fees $50. Oh woe. And then I screw courage to sticking point and look at my return. If the gov accepts the accountant's figures I will... be getting a refund of close to $1500, which is twice what I've had any time this last decade. Oh joy oh yay callooh callay! All is well again.
Except the niggle in my current happiness which is that the last two books in the Craft sequence haven't been published in hardcover and that they have a different cover artist. I have no idea why Macmillan made that decision, but it was the wrong one.
Then the gardener came to remove my mulberry and chop my hedge down 2/3. We shall see if this encourages it to grow back bushier or if it really has run its course. 'It doesn’t get enough sun to really grow,' she said, which is true, because when I planted it there were no trees on my front lawn and now there are two. She only charges $55 an hour and I don’t think she took an hour over the work.
Then my taxes come Purolatoring back to me, ending one of April's chronic anxieties ('will they be done in time?') and pinging the others ('How much do I owe this time?') Accountants have raised their fees $50. Oh woe. And then I screw courage to sticking point and look at my return. If the gov accepts the accountant's figures I will... be getting a refund of close to $1500, which is twice what I've had any time this last decade. Oh joy oh yay callooh callay! All is well again.
Except the niggle in my current happiness which is that the last two books in the Craft sequence haven't been published in hardcover and that they have a different cover artist. I have no idea why Macmillan made that decision, but it was the wrong one.
