House Maintenance

It is Sunday morning May 16th and I can hardly move for the stiffness in my body. Yesterday my physical activity was comprised of pulling dandelions, cleaning up dog poop, cutting front and back lawns, pulling out the many weeds that were growing around the bushes and throwing down some mulch. I’d like to point out that I am not a ‘gardener’. I will procrastinate week after week until I realize I have about the worst looking house on the block and then I start out of sheer guilt. But once I get started I don’t stop because I know that I may never get started again.

On the dandelion subject…. I wonder how long it will be before we embrace the lovely yellow flowers and stop trying to rid our lawns of them. I see that many people already have reached that point, or given up maybe; not sure which. Pulling dandelions is tedious, back breaking labour and I don’t care if you have one of those pulling thing-a ma-jigs, its still hard on the old bod. I bought the thing-a-ma-jig at Home Depot yesterday thinking it was a great thing because it had a 25 year warranty. Will I be pulling dandelions when I am 80? NOT! So if any of my children want to place dibs on a great dandelion remover that will last a good chunk of your lifetime you can have it now …… but only if you are willing to pull my dandelions too.

Someone ….. I don’t know who yet ….. put the wrong kind of oil and too much of it into my lawn mower. When I went to start it up so much green smoke came billowing out that I half expected the enviro police to show up. There was only one thing I could do at that point…. Knock on my neighbour-the-mechanic’s door. I wheeled my lawnmower across the street, explaining to the gawking old guy next door my situation. His only response was “it’s a good excuse anyway”. What is up with some people’s brains that they would think I broke my lawnmower so that I could get layed? Some people are so creepy!!

I am having my roof done tomorrow. You can believe that my roof is in a desperate state for me to be doing this because I have not been very pro-active and willing to spend $1000s of $$$ on this annoyance. I have already given a contractor ½ of the money and the shingles have been ordered. Why is it that once you’ve taken that step that everyone and their dog tells you they know a guy that would have done it for a lot cheaper. For two weeks I went around asking people for advice on this and nobody was very helpful; but NOW I’m getting all sorts of stories and tsk tsk remarks. All I can say is…. Whatever….. I’m getting a new roof.

Today??? I’m painting my front door and how knows what else I surprise myself with!