Today I had a long overdue small victory. A few weeks ago, a large gust of wind came through the valley that we live in and it tore half the roof off our patio and sent it somewhere else. We still haven’t found all the bits of the roof so god knows where it landed. That same gust of wind knocked down one of the two windows that separates the back patio area and the garden. Here’s the window laying on the floor (and man, that glass is thick as hell and it was smashed into thousands of tiny shards. I was lucky to get away with just one cut on my finger while I was picking it all up):

So I lodged an insurance claim with my insurance company, RACT, and they sent around some guys to fix the roof but the guys didn’t fix the window because there was some problem with the way that it had been installed and that RACT were still assessing that part of the claim. I mentioned to the guys that I actually didn’t want another window going in there (because next time it might fall onto someone or some dogs and rip them to shreds) and that I’d would prefer to have a slatted privacy screen going in there instead.

Well, that was weeks ago and we hadn’t heard anything more about it, we just thought that they weren’t interested in the window. But today I had a call from RACT and the nice lady said that they’ve decided not to fix the window but instead they will give us a cheque for $3,700, which is the amount that it would have cost them to fix the window (wowsers who knew we had such expensive windows!). Then I can use that money to either fix the window or build something else there (such as a slatted timber screen, even though it’s probably going to cost half of what the insurance company is going to give me!).

Just a small victory in the overall scheme of things, but right now this little surprise is huge for me, considering all the disappointment with the shed. I’ve been walking around with a smile on my dial the whole morning.