It All Worked Out

Note: We have had to postpone the comforter-tying party scheduled for Saturday at the Mennonite Church. We will try to have it a month from now, on March 26.

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Our banker had loan papers waiting for us to sign yesterday morning at 11 a.m. The bank is doing an interest-only loan for us for a few months until the insurance settles, and then we will reassess. Unfortunately, we have yet to be able to speak to a human being at Safeco, which is the insurance company for the driver who caused the accident. I sat in our insurance agent’s office Tuesday morning while she tried—unsuccessfully—to get someone on the phone. She kept getting recorded messages telling her to file online. When we tried to file online, we were given a number to call, but when we called the number, we were given a message to file online. We have left messages with the person who is reportedly the claims agent, but she has yet to contact the husband. Another day of this and we will turn the claim in on our commercial liability policy and let that company deal with Safeco. (Our company told us to turn it in to Safeco before they would get involved.) We’re now almost a whole week after the accident. Even with a federal holiday in there, this is unacceptable.

We signed the papers and made all the arrangements to get the new truck, then came home to have lunch. I was on my way back to town to run errands and go to my 4:30 p.m. massage appointment when the husband called me. When he had first contacted the dealer in Tacoma over the weekend, it was about a different Ram pickup with a crew cab. He was told that that truck had been promised to another buyer. The husband had just gotten off the phone with the dealer, who called him to let him know that that sale fell through and the crew cab truck was now available. Did we want it instead of the regular cab truck? Of course! I made a quick detour back to the bank and met the husband there. We signed the new set of loan papers and I made it to Whitefish for my massage appointment in plenty of time.

The new truck should be here this weekend. And a huge shout out to Valley Bank for helping us make this happen.

Kalispell peeps, Sydney at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake is amazing. I explained to her that my back had been bothering me since staying at that Airbnb in Spokane. She worked me over from head to toe and I could feel my vertebrae slipping back into alignment as she went. She even joked that I looked taller after the massage. I’m a bit sore this morning, but it’s a good kind of sore and I am moving with more flexibility.

The Churn Dash top has been washed and pressed and is now waiting for me to find a backing for it. I also picked up another machine quilting book at Joann Fabrics:

This one has quilting designs for a dozen classic quilt blocks. I may get out my bin of orphan blocks and make some quilt sandwiches for practice. I see lots of great ideas in here.