Welcome to the Drought of 2012! We don't know about you, but the lack of rain is certainly making it very difficult for us to keep our gardens and flower and newly planted trees alive. A couple of weeks ago, we were struck a second time in two years by lighting! It was a direct hit to our roof. Fortunately, no major damage occurred, however we did have to replace a few things...again. Our furnace kicked on and heated the house up to 80-degrees before we knew what was happening.
After two direct strikes in two years, we bit the bullet and are having a lightning rod system and surge protection system installed and attached to all of our lines to the house (gas, both electric panels, phone lines, satellite boxes, irrigation system, etc.). The company is Capitol Lightning Protection based in Fishers and is the only certified lightning protection company in the state. We have been very happy with them so far. According to the stats, we have a 99+% chance of either not getting hit again or absorbing and grounding the lightning such that we don't even know we got hit! Those are pretty good odds!! If you want the contact info for Capitol, let me know and I'm happy to give it to you. With all of the news reports lately of houses getting struck by lightning and us getting struck twice, it was time to do something as next time we might not be so lucky.
August 6th is a big birthday for me, the big 4-0. Brigid's birthday is two day's earlier, but she has a few years before having to emotionally deal with this milestone. It is hard to believe I am going to be 40. Brigid and I are going out to eat to celebrate and then we embark on a cruise to the Caribbean for a week with the kids later in the month. We are very much looking forward to that.
Jack and Mary Anne returned safely from their trip to Italy and, after having a few mishaps (broken glasses, lost luggage for 4 days by the airline, and a stolen wallet), it was a great dream vacation for them. They even had an audience with the Pope! They are happy to be home, however.
Real estate has been extremely busy the past several months. Interest rates have continued to fall and are now around 3.5%!! If you still haven't re-financed and think you might benefit from it, it would make a lot of sense to contact a local lender to see if makes sense for you. I have some names of some excellent lenders if you would like them.
Enjoy the rest of your summer, and please do a few rain dances for us. We need it!!!
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