So, isn't there supposed to be a recession on? Aren't people who work in trades (like the construction business) desperately looking for work? It must have skipped Langley. We're trying to get a fence put up on our property. First we called Surrey Cedar. They have great prices on their cedar play houses and they're local. We had two appointments for them to come and measure our place up for fencing and no one ever showed. They didn't even bother letting us know they weren't coming (which, if you know trades people, means I spent two days sitting around my house when I could have been doing things. GRRRR).

Now we're on to our second fence company. They did come and measure our place, but we haven't heard from them since.

And back in December, like two days after we moved in here, a Telus truck backed into our house. Telus was awesome about it. But it took almost 3 months for the insurance companies to decide who was going to fix our house. Then it took several weeks before they actually came and looked at our house. Now we're getting close to a month of waiting for the restoration company to let us know when they're going to start the repairs.

I wish I was handier. I'd just do all this myself :P