- Irish Woman was furloughed from her job a few weeks ago, but she’s been keeping herself busy by undoing a lot of the landscaping and redoing it.
- She tried to tell me that the new gas power washer could count as her Mother’s Day present. I told her I wasn’t looking to die that soon.
- One of the goldfish ponds in the front yard has been filled in. There were no fish in it, but several rather large and stubborn bullfrogs had to be ejected into the remaining pond.
- I’d like to say that Boo has adjusted to this, but I’m pretty sure he’s scavenging scrap wood from the house to shore up the roof of the tunnel he’s digging through the back yard.
- I’m tempted to warn him that the septic tank is back there.
- The search for the new house has ground to a halt for the time being.
- In the area we want to move into, our choices are either a $200,000 hovel that needs a few hundred thousand dollars worth of work put into it before it would be livable, or a palatial estate that costs more than the GDP of some small countries.
- Other areas aren’t any better, and Irish Woman has made up her mind about where she wants to live. I’d argue with her, but I’d rather be happy than right.
- I must admit to a small amount of panic buying a couple weeks ago.
- I purchase the coffee I like by the case from Amazon. I get a new case automatically sent to me every couple of months.
- Normally, that means I’m drinking from one case, with one or two cases on the storage shelves at any given time.
- With me being home and working stupid amounts of hours, my coffee consumption has reached back into the “Working mids shift and having a newborn baby in 1992” range. I soon found myself opening my last spare case with no coffee inbound from Amazon. I was also out of cups for the Keurig.
- When I went to order an extra case, my coffee was out of stock, so I ordered two cases of my second favorite and another case of assorted KCups.
- So, I’m drinking my way through one case, have two cases of almost-as-good coffee, a case of “I need a cup of coffee, but don’t want to make an entire pot” fixings, then Amazon dropships a case of my favorite coffee on my doorstep.
- If I can get a muzzle onto the monkey riding my back, I should have about 6 months worth of coffee.
- Irish Woman looked at me crossways over this. I just shrugged and pointed to her bourbon collection.
- Boo and Irish Woman have started making a batch of homemade vanilla extract using $25 worth of vanilla beans and a bottle of good Finlandia vodka.
- Friends tell me that making it with brandy or rum is also excellent. We’ll try that next time.
- Yes, they used good vodka to make vanilla extract. Yes, I approved. Vodka and I have the same agreement I have with tequila – Everyone leaves everyone else alone. I use it for cooking, and it doesn’t try to get me in trouble on the Moscow Metro again.
- We finally broke down and hired a plumber to come in and fix several small and a couple rather large problems we’ve had.
- I know my limits. I don’t work on things that could burn down or flood the house.
- Even with them doing us a solid and only charging time and material, that sucking sound you hear coming out of Louisville is my wallet.
- The plumber said that he’d do some of the easy things first, then tackle the hard things. Little did he know that there are no easy things to fix in this house.
- Is it a bad thing to hear the pleasant, mild-mannered man working on your plumbing stop, swear under his breath, then start hitting something with a hammer?
- On several occasions today, he and his helper have told me that they’ve never seen anything like what we’ve got going on. Hey, the plumbing is original from the late 1940’s and was put in before building codes reached this far outside of the city limits. You’ve got to expect a few surprises
- I didn’t mind spending money on a 30 yard dumpster to clean out our house, garage, basement, and attic of all of the extraneous stuff we’ve accumulated over the the last 20 years.
- I did mind, however, giving up space in the dumpster for stuff we found that the original owners had left behind.
- It’s amazing how much stuff we have that only took a second or two to decide that it didn’t make the cut.
- The battle with the honeysuckle continues. I’ve resorted to the unilateral use of chemical agents against the foe. If that doesn’t work, there’s always incendiaries.
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Posted by daddybear71 on May 5, 2020
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OldNFO
/ May 6, 2020I was wondering what that bloom of light from the NE was… And yeah, coffee is NOT something to run out of, EVAR!!!
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barkleymom
/ May 6, 2020I get the whole “cleaning out” bit. I honestly didn’t move much in here when we got married, some expensive rugs, some Bev Dolittle Art that costs more than most cars now, and a couple of chairs. But husband, being an engineer has tons of stuff in the basement in garage, including steam engines an assorted British automobiles. Someone at Bible study asked us our secret to being so happy together and I said “we have an agreement, whoever says the word ‘divorce’ first has to take ALL the crap in the garage”. – Brigid
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mrgarabaldi
/ May 8, 2020Hey DB
I so understand…Coffee is Life. My being furloughed, but I will be returning at the end of the month, thank goodness, 60 days seems to be too long, but it has has put a cut in our expenditures, My wife is still working but we are fortunate, we don’t have much debt with the exception of the house note so things are manageable. I have been doing home improvements but I am tired of sniffing paint.
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daddybear71
/ May 27, 2020Her first day back was yesterday. She did landscaping, home improvements, painting, power washing, baking, arts and crafts, home schooling, and spousal management while she was off work.
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