CW's Back Yard Water Garden Begins!

[GBBUDD]

Love your long winded explanations, @Pablo

@Pablo gets paid by the MINUTE the longer it takes to explain the situation the longer it takes you to absorb all the words and what is pertinent and what is time killing. The sooner your retainer runs dry and needs replenishing !

 

[j.w]

Not sure how long we will stay here in this house but we may have a lot of "splainin" to do as Ricky would say to Lucy if we sell it

 

[GBBUDD]

I think Elon put it best, last week when he responded the way i would to the Bureaucrat/ Newsome when he said he talked to the constitutional scholar Sockum Dez Knuts...

 

[Pablo]

Love your long winded explanations, @Pablo

Thanks, unfortunately @combatwombat wont like them when he gets the bill. He better hope the exchange rate improves.

 

[combatwombat]

 

[Pablo]

Excellent, so how much was the bribe?

 

[GBBUDD]

Got me beat

 

[combatwombat]

Inspector was great. Said it was his first pond. Didn't care about anything. Just looked around, said "wow," and signed the sheet.

Excellent, so how much was the bribe?

25 tree frogs.

 

[combatwombat]

Say hello to my leetle friend.

 

[Hound Heaven]

Here fishy fishy fishy!

 

[GBBUDD]

i hope you took the time to sex them or mom may never see the pond again when there's 200 of them,
surprise surprise , surprise its raining in the pnw. something we could use as we are having forest fires where helicopters dropping water are being used. " too close to home"

 

[j.w]

Say hello to my leetle friend.

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Just one? Well it's a baby step anyways

 

[combatwombat]

i hope you took the time to sex them or mom may never see the pond again when there's 200 of them,
surprise surprise , surprise its raining in the pnw. something we could use as we are having forest fires where helicopters dropping water are being used. " too close to home"

Sure didn’t! If we end up with too many, I’ll let the kid practice her fishing skills.

Sorry you’re experiencing those fires. No fun. That’s like every other year out here. I remember a few years ago landscaping with my respirator on because the smoke was so bad. Felt like I was terraforming Mars.

 

[combatwombat]

Just one? Well it's a baby step anyways

10 actually. Tiny little comets. Will go back for some shubunkins soon.

 

[Lisak1]

Our permit experience has been the village wants you to get one and pay for it but they could care less about how the work gets done. We had an issue with a roofer that ended up in court - the work was not up to code (among 1 million other issues) but the inspector said “we’d let all that go”. We had a problem from day one when they issued the permit in the name of a business we had never heard of and did not appear on the contract. The contractor lied and said he didn't use subs, but guess what. The village got their $$$$ and then never cared one bit who did the work or if they inspected along the way. Told us how the work got done was our problem. Oooooooookay. Thanks for your help.

Around the same time as the roof debacle we had a patio installed. When the inspector came he noticed we were trenching out the drain tile around the house to resolve a basement water issue that existed from day one. He said "you need a permit for that work, too". I said "oh really? Because we're just fixing the work the builder effed up that you signed off on 15 years ago." That ended that conversation.

I’m a believer in doing things the right way and one would think getting an inspection should guarantee that and provide some protection for the homeowner as well - unfortunately, at least in our village, permits are just one more useless tax.