My regular subscribers may have noticed I have been a little absent from the rain the past few days. I have been busy with a huge inspection that fellow rainer James Quarello flew out from Connecticut to help me with. I needed a good thermographer to scan the exteriors of the buildings and I got to thinking why not invite Jim out here to see the great Northwest and to do the scans. Yesterday we took the day off and went sightseeing. Our first stop was to have breakfast with another rainer, Steve Smith. It was a great visit----there is nothing like getting three home inspectors together for some great inspector talk-----you know----the kind that makes our wife’s eyes glaze over? But as usual Nutsy and Steve got to fighting about the raise Nutsy wants and Steve left early and missed out on the group photo after breakfast. I suspect that as usual the Boss will break down and give Nutsy what for----I mean what he wants. Charles Buell, Seattle Home Inspector
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Charles,
Hmm....the pose reminded me somehow of the 3 musketeers.... :)
I had to take a second look at Nutsy to be sure I was seeing right. With a mask like that you could have some fun.
Charles, Jim had mentioned that he was getting invited to do some work with you when I last met him. Hope it went well, and there may well be some additional posts abut this adventure
Mr Charles,
You do not have a photo release for that photo. You do not have my premissions to do that. By the way, I hope Mr Quintarillo will get his pay from you prior to his getting on the large bird or he might end up getting a bird of another sort....one who knows.
Nutsy
Lori, the three Muskrats might be more accurate
Jody, we have quite a bit of fun with it anyway :)
Ed, it has been fun having Jim here and it worked out great.
Nutsy, I thought you were the one "who knows nothing?" Am I missing something here?
Charlie, As we both know Nutsy was a little, shall we say unsteady that morning. Add that to his already feeble brain powers and it's a wonder he can climb out of bed, let alone climb a tree.
Jim, yes----the guy wires and pole that hold him upright in the picture barely show at all.
I am so sorry I missed that... but I had to wash my hair.
Alan, that is OK I TOTALLY understand----knowing how important your hair is to you :)
I think I saw that group in the post office on the wall. hmmmmmm. Yep pretty sure of it. The Buell Gang or something like that.
Good to see that you can call in specialists when the need a rises...
How about that. You look the same as your AR Photo. And isn't it fantastic to have a pool of folks to pick from when a big job needs to be done. Good for you, Mr. Buell.
Jack, there is a fair chance of that
Paul, yes----proof again of the power of the rain
Jason, thanks----it has been fun----although the 16 (14 so far) crawl spaces have been a "treat":)
How cool is that? Once again, the networking that takes place here in the Rain shines on brightly!
That is quite an inspection team. I'll bet you can go where no other inspector would dare to go ;-)
If I saw a crew like that I would have to head the other way.
Craig, yuppers
John----especially Nutsy
Dennis---or just call a good pest control operator.
LOL, I enjoyed reading this, it looks like you have a good team and a solid network!
Sounds like a good time was had by all inspectors, and I hope your client appreciated the extra effort you made bringing in the experts :)
Charlie - you obviously didn't get the blue jean memo! That looks like a great group. Too bad Steve had to leave. Bet you got some good scanification from Jim.
Jason, it is pretty easy with activerain
Jane, I think they do
Jay, actually they ignored the slacks memo----and yes the scanning was great
Great to see that networking on Activerain is more then just comments. How fun is that.
Oh Active Rain members hard at work and having fun.
Diane, it for sure is
Carl and Ceil, the fun part is what is important :)
Mr Charles,
I think that, if you were to give me my back pay, nearly three years late, I might still forgives you.
Nutsy
I guess I should say that Jim will always be your "second" internet date...
Nutsy, with inflation----starting with "0"----you would owe me.
Jay, does that make me an AR slut? :)
Not at all! Let's just say you get around...
good to see you guys working and having fun- life is good- cw
Jay, perhaps so
Cheryl, it is indeed----even for this motley crew
Mr Charles,
I think you would have been more slimmer had you taken the photo pre-breakfast.
Nutsy
Charles,
Where you doing a complex (16 crawlspaces)? That's alot of crawling. I would love to talk about thermography with you at some point in time.
Have a great day.
Don
Nutsy, or if I had you for breakfast instead of the creme danish.
Don, yes----50 units, 5 buildings.
WOW! Handsome group but the one on the right is by far the best looking of all. His intelligence just ooozes out in this photo.
Barbara, perhaps so----if you look close there are mops hidden behind Jim and me for all that "oooze"