- Well, Irish Woman’s pool is finally starting to happen in ways that involve more than writing checks.
- Oh, the check writing will never end, but now other things are happening too. See if you can spot where this makes me a happy bear.
- I will be paying to upgrade the electrical service on the house because the 1979 breaker box in my basement is full. Apparently we need electricity for the world’s most expensive cattle trough, and my suggestion to hook up an exercise bike and a generator was vetoed.
- I cannot have the plumber out to add a new outdoor water spigot where I want it because pieces and parts of the above ground cistern have been stacked in my garage and I am forbidden to touch them. That means that my darling Irish Woman will have to string together a couple hundred feet of hose to fill her artisanal sump once it’s assembled.
- The excavating company was out yesterday to do site prep. I now have a 24 foot hole in my yard, ranging from half a foot to 2.5 feet deep. Luckily, the limestone shelf upon which Kentucky rests is just a tad deeper than this. Around here, the sound of a jack hammer is ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching.
- The dirt from said hole is piled up in a nice berm between the hold and the street. Irish Woman, the love of my life and mother to my spawn, says that it will be planted with flowers and grass so that it screens her bluelight-special-looking above ground pool from the street. This is a desperate scheme to convince me that we are not shooting the value of our new property behind the ear by doing all this.
- I, on the other hand, am considering where to site the AT-4 and M-60 teams on it to keep the Soviets from advancing across the black top. Let the godless Communists stay on their own side of the street.
- Additionally I have about a ton each of gray and brown sand piled up at the end of my driveway. You know, that little bit of concrete that makes it easy for me to get my truck in and out? Yeah, not usable for the foreseeable future.
- I do know where I can get some sandbags, and the boy needs his character built a tad. Hmmmm.
- The nice man, and I’m not being sarcastic about this, he’s a saint, from the excavating company had a really rough day yesterday. First, he had to deal with me. That alone earns him a lot of brownie points. Second, he was sideswiped on the freeway during one of his multiple trips to get stuff for the project. The dude who hit him apparently didn’t stop, so he has to deal with a hit and run report to the police and his insurance company. Next, he backed his trailer over a retaining wall and flower bed next to our driveway. I’ve been assured by my darling wife that this will be fixed at some point in the vague mists of the future. Finally, Irish Woman brought him a couple of burgers when she discovered that the poor man had not had lunch. Unfortunately for him, he discovered that Burger King is now serving Whoppers a nice medium-rare after a couple of bites.
- I am assured that this addition to our house will make She Who Will Not Be Denied happy for the rest of her life, and that she will take care of it and it won’t be a bother and it will bring peace and tranquility to our house. Now, look closely and you can see my excitement about this project.
- I am assured that at some point, I will be able to put in a sauna, which is what I want. I’m sure that license to do this will be granted by Lady Voldemort a couple of weeks before my doctor tells me that saunas will kill me.
- Cleaning up the highway with the Boy Scouts went very well. There is a cadence to these things:
- The boy discovers a piece of trash nestled in the grass alongside the road.
- He and his pals examine the bit of flotsam, poking it with various sticks and grabbing utensils.
- He then attempts to pick it up with said grabbing tool. He gets extra points for snagging it in the most inconvenient manner. This will necessitate multiple tries and debates on the best method between him and his compatriots.
- He then announces what he found. Loudly.
- The advertising jingle for the product, if known, is then sung or chanted at least once. If it has a tag-line, he will sing this out for several minutes after, or until something else catches his attention. Marketing works, my brothers and sisters.
- Mothers, who are along to act as speed bumps by standing a couple of inches out into the road wearing bright clothing, will be mortally embarrassed by how many beer commercials their sons know by heart and by pointing out how many of the brands they have at their house.
- If the article is not identifiable, is rather gross, or is at all interesting, a debate will ensue between him and the Scouts nearest him to ascertain the object’s identity and discuss it at length.
- The object will then be placed into a trash bag. 50% of the time, he will want to present a dissertation on his findings to the adult holding the trash bag. The other 50% of the time, the trash will be dropped on the ground, causing the cycle to begin again.
- Spring break began yesterday. I am puttering around the house today, and we will be heading off to the mountains for a few days. Irish Woman told me that she rented a cabin. My vision of what we are going to be staying in was a few rooms, roughly furnished, with electricity and running water. What she rented is a 3 story, 3 bedroom/bath wooden house with a gas grill and both a jacuzzi and pool table. There’s nothing like roughing it for a few days.
- Pictures from the rental agency include several outside, second story posts with rather prominent claw marks in them, so I’m guessing that either there is a local bear population that has learned that suburbanite tourists equal easy food or that the raccoons in the area have mutated. More on this to come after we get back.
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/ March 30, 2021Enjoy the down time and relax!
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