Sometimes, you get behind plans. Sometimes, there are just too many plans and too little time. Sometimes, it takes all you have just to make the daily meals and do the laundry.
I've been lucky lately. Kind of caught up on some things. Still behind on others, but "catching up" is good.
On the good side:
1. Picking beans now. Yum!
2. Picking wild blackberries in the backyard. Yum!
3. Went loose with the hedge trimmer and lopper. Cleared out some big weeds and brambles that grabbed at me as I mowed the lawn before.
4. This will seem weird, but my electric mower has 2 batteries and they don't last long (bought cheap - always a mistake) and they are difficult to remove. So I tied a twine loop around them. Those came loose, so I used duct tape to hold the twine in place. Duct tape solves almost everything.
5. Was missing hearing old CDs because my connections are all messed up (GOT to pull out the rack and fix that). But then realized my portable multipurpose portable stereos can play them (DUH!). Been enjoying Simon & Garfunkle all night.
6. Gave the tomato plants a good soaking of foliar spray. If that is unfamiliar, it means adding nutrients to the plants on the leaves. It soaks in.
7. Had some newly-leaking hose connections. So I took every one apart and wrapped them with plumber's tape. Thin plasticy stuff that gets squeezed into the hose threads. Works great. No more leaks.
8. The cucumber and melon plants are beginning to climb the wire trellis.
9. I can expect a Tonkinese female kitten in mid September.
On the bad side:
A. The back yard is "bramble city". I HAVE to get the brush mower working again.
B. I need to redo my Will.
C. I need to get the car in for scheduled maintenance.
D. I REALLY need to mop all the floors and they are SO clutterred.
E. I REALLY need to completely redo the stereo/TV connections. I mean I still have a VCR attached!
F. I REALLY need to learn how to clip The Mews's claws.
G. I am very overdo for a dentist visit, an annual physical, and a haircut.
H. The kitchen ceiling fixture needs to be changed from attached-to-the-ceiling to "suspended". It never works in Summer because of the hot attic. Or maybe I need an attic fan. I'm not sure which is easier.
I. Weeds have taken over too much of the flowerbeds. Periwinkle, English Ivy and Poison Ivy mostly. Thanks to my neighbors... I might just dig up the best and cover the whole area with black plactic for a year.
J. The garden beds are probably infested with tomato-killing diseases. One plant is already entirely yellow. The solution is to surround the beds tightly in clear plastic for a year for over-heating the soil from trapped sunheat. It's called solarizing. I should have done it last year.
K. I have old furniture. Some much of which is junk. Time to get rid of a lot of stuff. I've been living like a broke college student for too long (my desires are simple). Not that I need "house beautiful" with rosewood tables and granite counters, but I could some better stuff.
L. Too many junk trees on the edges of the yard. One day, there is a spling. Next thing I notice it is 12' tall. And the neighbor's maple tree roots are making mowing the lawn like driving over railroad ties. I need to get them grinded out of my lawn.
Isn't there always more on the "To Do List" than you can do? I'm just going to hire a general contractor to come in and do everything on the list I'm making. 3 bids, of course.... I think my major D-I-Y days are over.
3 comments:
Hey - you're a home owner with a large yard. There's always gonna be a long to do list. Tell yourself that that's part of the fun. LOL
So, congrats for getting some stuff done. As for the things on the 'still to be done' list:
B New will - don't forget me, will ya? I think "Megan, Sydney, Australia" should find me!
C Car - do they even do scheduled maintenance on cars that have been driven so little? Tell 'em you expect a discount on the standard maintenance charge.
D - floors: come practise on mine!
F - let the claws grow. Imagine you're a cat owner in Australia. (As I've said before, I've never known an Australian cat owner to clip their cat's claws.)
G - bugger. Put these at the top of the list. Ask for happy gas at the dentist.
Have fun.
Megan
Sydney, Australia
Megan you are TOO funny...LOL,,LOL!!
There sure are a lot of tasks that maybe need to be done by others...we have similar problems here now too...the most urgent one is getting a concrete slab poured for a shed...and then getting the shed put up...which is coming later this week...but we still have to find out how to make that slab so it fits with the shed plans...OK, Contractor for the concrete...same one who put in our sidewalk and driveway. They do great work. Just give us time to corral off the area so we do not get doggy paws in it...or would that make it a keepsake??
Then recruit the sons to help put that thing together. Its only a small one, 7 x7, but we cannot do it anymore. Well, that is to say, I don't want to and hubby cannot. Sheesh.
At least we can still do most of the regular ordinary things. I mow the yard, since all the issues with hubby make that very hard for him...you know...for better or worse...but he can and does cook...and even cleans up!
We need to get rid of the carpets in here and put down new solid flooring. Maybe laminate planking...
We need to fix/paint the front porch, I wish we had put down the not wood wooden lookalike years ago,but hubby decided and made it with wood...which is beginning to rot...sigh...old houses. Always something. (1907).
Oh yes, we got the water softener fixed, but now we need to replace the faucet in the kitchen. the fourth or fifth one in the past forty years or so from when hubby bought this place...
Enough of my commiserating...hope you can get some of your to do list checked off!
Sounds like you have been busy. All you can do is plug away at that to- do list. I love Simon and Garfunkel , one of my favorite songs is Sound of Silence.
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