DVC take me away..........

[lenshanem]

Can my trip to BWV please come sooner?!? Just discovered we have termites all around the front door. Course, the deductible for repair work is rather high...

 

[wdwstar]

dont take me wrong but i love to plan my trips home, and i have more then 3 ressies in the works and i actually am very tired of planning ( i thought i would have never say that)

when is my first trip home going to get here.....


DVC take me away............

 

[lenshanem]

wdwstar, at least your counter says 7 days, mine is still at 65!

 

[MaryJ]

Originally posted by lenshanem
Can my trip to BWV please come sooner?!? Just discovered we have termites all around the front door. Course, the deductible for repair work is rather high...

We just found out we have the critters in our wood pile. However, I did call today to make a ressie for the F&WF. I'm calling the exterminator tomorrow....you can see that I have my priorities straight!

 

[lenshanem]

A few days ago I came home from the grocery, was gone maybe thirty minutes and a swarm of them had come in my entry. I about had a heart attack, there was like a million of them. Sure enough, today they discovered they had come up thru a crack in our porch cement up under the board that is under the front door. He then proceeded to start tapping around the door frame inside and the adjoining wall. It just crumbled. It looks really nice right now.

You can bet I'm going to have dreams about termites tonight!

I just hope they don't show up anywhere else.

Things have been so hectic lately, I could use a WDW vacation and an escape from reality!

 

[disneycrazed139]

Oh, Shan, you really do need DVC now! I can so completely sympathize with your plight. A few years ago I lived in a house and when I saw the first swarm of them I nearly had a heart attack too. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but I hate those critters. I know it's more emotionally distressing than one could imagine.
Just think of DVC as you drift off to sleep...

 

[ILPHIL]

We will take your termites if you take the skunk family that has taken up residence in the crawl space under our bedroom...

 

[lenshanem]

Thanks disneycrazed139. Hard to believe I have that kind of repair work to do and this house is only 6 years old!


ILPHIL, even Ellen Degeneres is having skunk problems. Did they ever mention on her show anyone how she got rid of them?
Good luck on that one!

 

[gopherit]

Lenshanem, I have totally been where you are! 12 mos ago, in fact! I had JUST paid off our DVC original contract AND even figured out how we could afford a BWV add-on (I was quite proud of myself!) Literally I finished up my banking and spreadsheet analysis "presentation" to my hubby who agreed -- yep, we can buy more pts! I then walked out into the beautiful spring air of that Sunday afternoon, and found my kids happily playing in the driveway. Hmmm... wihat had my lovely trio's attention? "Baby Dwagon fwies, Mommy! Come look!" shouted my almost-3 yr old dd excitedly! ANd there, emanating from our garage framework just as thick as a fog, were the "dwagonfwy babies"... I took one look and shrieked and ran back into the house. "Honey, come quick!" I yelled. I think we have a major termite problem!" My dear dear dh blinks twice and says, "Now what makes you say that?" I explained the whole "dwagonfly" discovery, to which he then responded, "Nah, those are just ants. Those aren't termites!"

Dubious, I asked, "Gosh, how can you be sure?"

His reply: "Because... they did the same thing LAST year."
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Oh boy. I love my dh, but sometimes........... He had apparently seen the "March of the Dwagonfwy" last year and elected not to tell me! Dind't think it was a problem!! Helllooooooo...... So you guessed it -- major termite issues, to the tune of a couple thousand bucks, holes drilled every 12 inches of our great big full front porch, into our foundation, all over... a big MESS (and a costly one at that.)

Fortunately, what DH lacks in termite-detection skills, he more than compensates for in financial wizardry... we paid off the pest man AND got our add-on! And no "dwagon fwies" parade this year, thank goodness!

 

[lenshanem]

Yikes gopherit! Sounds like my hubby!

So I tell hubby about the swarm. Even saved a few of the bugs after I cleaned up to show him when he got home. He told me he thought they were ants.
So less than a week later the bug man comes out. Sure enough, termites.
When hubby gets home and asks how my day was, I say..........

Oh, he forgot about the swarm last week and that I had an appointment that day. Really? Termites? Hello!

Men can be so clueless. Sorry guys, but the women are really what keeps this world spinning round....

Regardless gopherit, that is great you got the add-on, too. We had some extra money, in fact it was a good thing I went ahead and paid for our APs recently. Looks like our house being painted is gonna have to wait a couple months.