Restitution

Well, the head of our homeowners' association and the father of the boy scout whose team messed up our house and garden have been attempting to fix the problem. They brought over some thinner or cleaner of some kind from the paint store, but at this point, they'd left it so long that the oil-based fence stain didn't come off the house when they tried to clean it. Then they wanted some of our leftover house paint so they could paint over the damaged area. The only paint we had left is very old and very thick. So they went to the paint store to get some paint in the right color, only my husband had made a mistake and didn't give them the right color, and they failed to double-check and make sure it was correct, so they ended up getting the trim color instead of the main wall color. Now they have to go get the right color and return next weekend to paint that wall of the house.

This whole thing is just a major headache for all concerned, and could have been so easily avoided. I did manage to go to the Co-Op and find out the prices for organic food of the varieties that were ruined in my garden, so hopefully we will at least be able to replace the organic food we lost, even if it's not locally grown. I hope the negligent parties learned something from this mistake. If so, then it wasn't a total loss.