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Jay's Saturday Morning Haiku - 1

By Jay Markanich

Home Inspector with Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC 3380-000723

October 21, 2011 11:59 PM

Jay's Saturday morning haiku - 1

The English form of the traditional Japanese Haiku includes any or all of the following:

The use of 17 syllables, in the form of three lines, with 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively. Some haiku may employ 10 - 14 syllables, but 17 is traditional.
The use of a season in the poem.
The use of a "cut word" or punctuation to set off and compare two images.

I intend to take something related to my home inspection adventures and show case it with a haiku every week. Please enjoy this, my first one. (I have already written two more, so I am loaded for a while!)

Come on to our pad.

You will have to stand up straight -

We lean together.

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James Dray

Fathom Realty - Bentonville, AR

Much better thanks

Oct 22, 2011 12:06 AM

Jay Markanich

Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA

Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Sorry James! I had never done that big lettering before. I will figure out how to do it so it doesn't pop up the source code like that!

Oct 22, 2011 12:10 AM

TeamCHI - Complete Home Inspections, Inc.

Complete Home Inspections, Inc. - Brentwood, TN

Home Inspectons - Nashville, TN area - 615.661.029

Good morning, Jay. H-m-m-m. Confucius say, second verse worst than first...

Oct 22, 2011 12:14 AM

Clint Mckie

Desert Sun Home, commercial Inspections - Carlsbad, NM

Desert Sun Home, Comm. Inspection 1-575-706-5586

Hi Jay,

Are you showing the line too short as well as the tanks need to be moved each time they need to tie into a full tank? There should be enough line to hook into all three tanks without the tanks being moved.

I can't see grandma out there trying to hook up tanks in the snow. Or any ther time.

Never know what you might find when inspecting a home.

All the best. Clint McKie

Oct 22, 2011 12:26 AM

Jay Markanich

Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA

Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Michael - Confucius was Chinese so he wouldn't know a haiku from a hayride. But the second verse is the beginning of the juxtaposition!

It's brilliant really... simply brilliant!

Oct 22, 2011 12:26 AM

Jay Markanich

Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA

Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Clint - due to the sinking of the pad, the tanks are leaning at almost 15 degrees. They are empty now, but when they are filled, due to the current leaning, they may be vulnerable to tipping and pulling the gas line off the house!

Oct 22, 2011 12:36 AM

Randy Ostrander

Lake and Lodge Realty LLC - Big Rapids, MI

Real Estate Broker, Serving Big Rapids and West Central MI

Good morning Jay. I enjoyed your Haiku attempt. The owners of this house may want to address this before adding gas for this years winter. I would be curious as to why they settled in the first place. Is it below an eave or just poor compacting prior to pouring the pad. Yikes.

Oct 22, 2011 02:20 AM

Wendy Cutrufelli

Alain Pinel Realtors - Walnut Creek, CA

Contra Costa Realtor

You are a creative bugger, aren't you? It would take me a month to create the darn Haiku!

Oct 22, 2011 03:50 AM

Jay Markanich

Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA

Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Randy - the sellers are original owners, the house is four years old, and no other pad in the area was sinking this way. So this one was clearly not founded well.

Thanks Wendy. I wrote it on a pad on my knee as I was driving home. I wrote two more too, being in the "mode!"

Oct 22, 2011 06:21 AM

Michael S. Bolton

Michael S. Bolton,Inc. - Zimmerman, MN

MN Appraiser

Good Afternoon Jay! I struggle with forming proper sentences and spelling, let alone trying figure out "Haiku." Have a great weekend!

Oct 22, 2011 07:10 AM

Jay Markanich

Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA

Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Michael - I remember trying real hard to come up with one in high school English, but now they don't seem so hard. We had to try to come up with limericks too, and I still can't do those!

Oct 22, 2011 07:18 AM

Chris Smith

Re/Max Chay Realty Inc., Brokerage - New Tecumseth, ON

South Simcoe, Caledon, King, Orangeville Real Esta

Jay, you are definitely more than a home inspector or just another "pretty face" wouldn't you know it, you are a poet ;-)

Oct 22, 2011 11:39 AM

Jay Markanich

Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA

Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Thanks Chris. Not very popular yet, but I intend to keep this up! I have two more in the wings!

Oct 22, 2011 12:47 PM

James Quarello

JRV Home Inspection Services, LLC - Wallingford, CT

Connecticut Home Inspector

Now you have grown those long feet. Or are you a tall guy. Any way don't tip over.

Oct 23, 2011 01:03 AM

Jay Markanich

Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA

Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Jim - my feet are a size 13, which makes it hard for me to tip over! Thost tanks now, that's a different thing.

Weird we were on the same wavelength again! That's what, the third or fourth time?

Oct 23, 2011 08:53 AM

Robert Butler

Aspect Inspection - Montreal West Island, QC

Montreal Home Inspector | Aspect Inspection

Haiku. Interesting thing to start, and ambitious. If you stop would that be a haiku hiatus?

Pads like that are a bad practice here. Too susceptible to frost displacement.

Oct 24, 2011 02:23 AM

Jay Markanich

Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA

Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Thanks Robert. A new twist. I have four written now, with photos. We get really cold snaps too, but not like you. I think frost does a number on lots of things. Our decks need to be 24" deep to avoid frost influence - probably deeper for you.

Oct 24, 2011 08:11 AM

Steven Cook

No Longer Processing Mortgages. - Tacoma, WA

Jay -- There is definitely a straight problem here! It will be interesting to find out how the owners decide to fix that problem.

Oct 24, 2011 08:33 AM

Jay Markanich

Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA

Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Steven - my understanding is that they are out of town. When they see the photo in the report they will think that it's always been that way! Whassa problem?

Oct 24, 2011 08:48 AM