Oil Tank:
I got a registered letter on September 10, from my insurance company, informing me - completely out of the blue - that I had exactly 10 weeks to remove the old oil tank, and replace it with a new one.  Why?  It was older than they insure for.  Turns out it was original to the house, which makes it 40 years old, and they only insure up to 25 years old.  Still, great to let me know I was going to lose my insurance, and giving me so much time to deal with it.  If I lose my insurance, I have my mortgage note called in - not a good thing - trust me on that.  So, I had to garnish our food and extras budgets to the tune of $1300 over the next four months to pay for the fool thing.  So we eat skimpy for 4 months, but we still have insurance and we still have a roof over our heads.  The old oil tank was removed on Friday.  New on put in, nearly fully installed.  One vent pipe not attached yet.  I was able to send confirmation of replacement, to the insurance company on Friday.  Waiting to hear back from them, to see if anything more is required.

Old Van:
The one I killed last year.  It's been sitting in my driveway for a bit over a year now.  I'm sure the neighbours are nice and ticked about that one.   Having a problem with one neighbour, figure this is partly why.  Pulling down the real estate values, etc.  It was really just laziness on my part.  I needed to get out and clean it up, and didn't. Then we started using it like a small garage  so I didn't really want to get rid of it.  Now I just want it gone, and my yard back, before the winter parking ban hits again, and Corbin has no where to park his car.  I went out to day and removed the good stuff I'd been storing in it, then trashed everything else.

Anyway, I called the local kidney foundation today, and asked them if I could donate Rosie (white van) to their Cars for Charity/Donation thing they do.  They are sending someone today to pick it up, and will be issuing me a small tax receipt for my donation.

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