For the love of PETE!

So I'm pondering the state of affairs that is my sewer. Well not so much the sewer, as it was fixed, but the fact that I'm out a large pile of money that was supposed to go to other stuff. The builder's insurance sloughed responsibility to the backhoe guy, and his insurance which is supposedly Maryland somethingorother.

The other day, I tried to run that down and got noplace. So today, I got the bright idea of looking the guy up on the Web. There's a site called Mantra or something that has business information and there was the address for Kus Co Backhoe. I put it in Google Maps, and lo and behold, there's an actual view of the guy's decrepit garage, and a SIDE VIEW which shows a sign "Excavating, call 555-1212" and a backhoe sitting in the weeds. I decide to look the guy up on the Idaho Department of Occupational Licensing web site, and discover

HIS IDAHO LICENSE EXPIRED JANUARY 2007!

He was not a duly licensed excavator/backhoe operator when he dug the holes for my foundation and creamed the sewer line without mentioning it! FOR THE LOVE OF PETE! Insurance? I bet there isn't any.

Tomorrow, I am going to call the builder's insurance adjuster and tell her this and offer to settle for $500 more than I paid the plumbers, and I will say that will cover the cost of cleanup and fixing my irrigation and patio. Should be interesting.

In the meantime, Sasha was placed and returned. I violated my one simple rule -- never place a pug out-of-area. They were out of area, but had a rescued pug and the other rescue loved them. I checked. After a couple-hour road trip to Montana, apparently Sasha was "too hyper" and the husband needed quiet because he worked from home, so they brought her back. She dominance-mounted their pug, which alarmed them, even though the description of Sasha says that 1. she's young and 2. she wants to be dominant. I don't know what they thought all that meant. And who doesn't want to run amok after a road trip, for heaven's sake?

So Sasha came back. Bugsy was happy, as was Chester. She's their cuddle buddy. She's so very hyper she's lying in a dog bed staring at me across the room. Pretty hyper. She did the pug run yesterday, but I was chasing her around.

The more I know people, the better I like the pugs, even Admiral Barky Erwin.