Tuesday - July 22, 2008
Still here, just busy
It’s 10pm Tuesday night. I’m cooking dinner. That’s about how busy I’ve been the past 3 days. Sunday was a big carpet removal job, made even worse because it was in a really small house that was packed with furniture. And mess. Stuff everywhere, piled nearly waist high. We spent more time moving stuff so we could move furniture than getting the rugs out. I thought they said they’d clean up beforehand. Arrgh. Still, I get paid by the hour, so whatever!
Monday I had tons of personal things to do. Housework, shopping, you know the drill. Can’t put it off forever or you wind up like the carpet folks above. But I didn’t have time to even check my email.
Today, and likely for the rest of the week, I’ve got this handyman project. Lady calls me up; “I need a handyman. We have this rotten board in the overhang over the front door that needs replacing.” And yes, it sure was rotten. But it’s one of those projects that just cascades. To get to the board you have to remove the moulding. To remove the moulding you have to get up under the gutters where you find the fascia and the valences are rotted too. And to get at them you have to remove the gutter. Which means taking off the downspouts. And the front of this home is solid bees nests. I killed at least 4 today, either paper wasps or hornets actually. And under the rotted wood were ants. Nasty little bitty black ants, but they bite! Carpenter ants maybe? I thought they were bigger. So it’s turning into a huge project, but the homeowner doesn’t care. “do what needs doing”. I love the sound of that. Naturally, it’s nearly 100 degrees out, so I’m out there getting another sunburn and sweating buckets, as pounds of dirty grit and sawdust rain down on me. Fun fun fun!
So, what’s new? How is our wonderboy doing over in Iraq and on his fact-finding tour? I haven’t even flipped the radio on, much less watched any TV. And right now I’ve got to get a load of laundry in, so I have something clean, and more importantly DRY, to wear tomorrow.
Be good.
Thank Peiper for posting so much in my absence. I’ll be back!
Posted by Drew458
on 07/22/2008 at 09:00 PM
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