Small idea huge chore

by Tammy Hall Parker on Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 7:40am

I love working outdoors. For one thing I find that it is good therapy for me I can put my earbuds in turn the music up as loud as I want to and be alone. Most of you already know I REALLY DON'T work well with others. Anyway earbuds in, music turned up loud I decided to tackle something that I see outside my back window everytime I look outside, a fence covered in honeysuckle. I know this is my fault I have let this go about 5 yrs and should have found a way to keep ahead of it, well I didn't. Now I pay the price. Well I have thought about it I'm not sure who paid the price for me working outside all week because you see when certain songs come on I tend to sing along and I have been told all my life by my mom and my kids that I can't carry a tune in a bucket. But I figured what I couldn't hear the neighbors could ignore. I'm sure by now they are thinking I should be invited to sing at all their special events. :) Actually I think that is why it rained Friday they all got together and prayed for mother nature to make the noise stop. lol But I decided to start where the honeysuckle did, at the corner of the fence. So armed with a pair of garden shears to cut back the small wild hedge that was growing and some kind of other clippy thingamabob I started to pull this creature off the fence. Oh and I did bring out the garden hoe since I saw something move and thought I may have to kill a snake to keep from having a heart attack. It turned out that this stuff has grown for so long it had roots as big around as my little finger so the thingamabob came out and what I couldn't pull up from the ground got cut. Let me put a note in here. If you like to do yard work always get a thingamabob to help out I found tons of uses for this thing although I'm not sure I used it the right way. You can't just walk into Lowe's or Home Depot and ask for it by the name thingamabob btw but I can describe it. It has two long handles like hedge clippers but at the end it is curved like a hook and when sharpened well it will cut almost anything. Monday I worked none stop at the fence and only got half of the honeysuckle off but you have to under stand this is a long length of fence that it has covered. So Tuesday as soon as the girls went to school I started on it again but after seeing the pile of weeds getting bigger I thought maybe it was time to go buy a wheel barrow first. Another note if you have grown up in the south you know this is really called a wheel barrel not barrow but use the northern term when looking on the internet to find one in your local do it yourself store. So part of the day was spent at Home Depot in Alyssa's truck because everyone who knows me knows Home Depot is a dangerous place to send me alone. I love it there the smell of sawdust, tools that I can't work but would love to try out and of course the things I didn't know I needed till I saw them. But I did control myself this time I only got my wheel 'barrel' and some weed and grass killer. Yes grass killer. We have a storage building close to the fence and I don't ever want to have to go behind there again. When I got home I started on the vines again spraying killer junk as I went. Then loaded the truck and went to the dump. After this I called it a day and took a shower in Dawn since I wasn't sure that all I had pulled was not poision oak. Alyssa came home and was very disappointed (not) to find out I would need her truck at least one more day, so she would have to suffer driving my car to school. Jeff was off Wed. so he helped out by cutting tree limbs that needed cutting. In case you have forgotten back at the beginning of this I said I DO NOT WORK WELL WITH OTHERS. Even though I do appreciate his help. We carried the first load to the dump and started cutting some more when the truck was half loaded for the second time Jeff was working on getting the steps out of the pool and Alyssa hears the limb truck one block over. Oh and note to self if you are suppose to pick Kelcy up from school watch the time. I didn't think the limb truck would be around anytime soon. I mean it's hard enough to get them out here when we haven't had storm damage I figured we wouldn't see them until sometime at least till the end of June. So when I sent Alyssa to pick up Kelcy I told her to go ask the guy if he would be kind enough to come over to our street and pick up tree limbs. Not a happy man but he did show up. One less trip to the dump accomplished. Called it quitting time for the day. Thursday rolls around and I find that I have misplaced something very important so I tear the entire house apart looking for it. Worked constantly on that. Finally found it around midnight. Finally some sleep. Kinda glad it rained Friday all I did was vacuum the pool and go shopping with Alyssa. It was great. Saturday around 1:00 I decided to close my eyes on the couch for just a few minutes. Lets just say when I woke up at 5:30 the kids said "well at least we know you've been breathing the whole time it was hard to tell." Thanks for checking on me girls. The house is not paid for and neither are the cars there is no estate to inherit so make sure I'm still alive next time unless you want to do everything around here yourself. Now put those raisins in your cookies and eat them. lol I still have alot to do before graduation. Now the school board has decided I should get up 1/2 hour earlier to get the girls off to school to make up stupid snow days not to mention did they even think about the seniors that are going to college having to get registered after school and go to orientation? They are already messing with a really tight schedule I have around here and I'm sure other parents do too. I mean good grief who decided to start college two days before kids even graduate around here? So here we go starting tomorrow off on another week long adventure. I only hope I make it until graduation. Last note to self, remember to get with Julie about feeding the animals while we have fun in the sun, don't want to come home and find the pets dead. If I only had time to teach the smarter one to use the cell phone. I love my life. :)

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