Landscaper meeting today

Once again, a contractor called the home number instead of my cell. I was out with the dog, but fortunately C got the call and told him to come on over. Thank goodness I can drop everything because he basically gave me no notice and these guys are hard to catch for a meeting. It's not good for my productivity because my schedule is constantly upended, but it's better than missing the meeting. It turned out that the general contractor was here too and we went over the deck plans AGAIN. It is so overwhelming - there are so many details and some things are really hard to communicate. I had sidewalk chalk ready so we could draw on the ground and this helped. I really hope we have all the plans worked out. Now we are waiting on proposals from both of them. I hope the price is okay - we really want the work done and these two are by far the best we've met.

Due to the meeting, I did not manage to get the side door stained. I'm concerned about this because every day that passes is more risk of damaging it. Untreated wood left outside can quickly get ruined. It is just really hard to schedule this in because it has to be done on a day when I have 5-8 hours to stay home with the door open and this rarely happens.