I think I better stop "getting it done" for a little while. DH made me promise I would NOT do any more pruning of our shrubs.
Yesterday, I did NOT ever get to change the sheets. DH decided he was going out to clean the garage -- vacuuming the bottom floor AND the top floor where the pool table is. So I said I would try out dmom's hedge trimmer while he was out there. I thought, surely I can stand the heat as long as he can... but I am a wimp. I had to stop SEVERAL times for water and crackers and I was pretty exhausted and shaky after an hour or so trimming shrubs. I emptied 4 HUGE wheelbarrow loads of clippings, and what fell behind the shrubs, I just left there, so there's probably another 4 loads there, between the porch and the shrubs.
BUT * mistake? #1 (in dh's eyes) * was that I kinda sawed off the FRONT of the shrubs. I felt it was necessary, b/c they had gotten soooo huge that it was impossible to reach the very top of them; the diameter was so big that you couldn't get close enough. Unfortunately, the front growth was disguising a LOT of dead limbs behind them, so now they kinda look like this:
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Okay... * mistake #2 * Since I was practically having a heat stroke and wondering just how on earth my grandfather laid brick for 50 years and my ddad did construction work when he was older than I, I posted about this experience on FB. * sheesh * I should not be allowed to have a FB. In my post I also said the ONLY reason I was doing this was to save my own $$ b/c I couldn't afford to hire someone to do it and there was no money in the world anyone could pay ME to do it!
* sheesh *
That was kinda embarrassing to dh. I told him I think everyone that knows us knows that "can't afford" means "don't want to afford" b/c I mean, seriously, we are definitely NOT wealthy, but everybody who knows us knows we manage to afford season tickets to football and basketball games at an SEC school right? It's pretty obvious that we just don't CHOOSE to make home repairs/upkeep our priority. But anyway... he was pretty miffed about the whole thing, b/c a friend who does yard work for a living (and whose father just passed away with congestive heart failure) offered ON FB, to do it for free and let us take care of the clean-up. * sigh *
So I had to tell her, no no no, I would never ever let her do that kind of work for free, that dh said we COULD and would gladly pay someone to do it, when we got time to deal with it. (Right now, he really does not want anything else scheduled into his "routine" except dgs's t-ball and another trip to Atlanta, a trip to Nashville, and hopefully, a trip to Shiloh battlefield in TN.) So I told her I might get back with her in the fall, when it is a more appropriate time to prune, anyway.
* sigh *
So yesterday, my first post was all about stupidity re: phone calls, and my last one, if I had not been so exhausted, would have been about stupidity with the hedge trimmers and my big mouth.
I honestly do wonder how I would have ever survived if I had had to pick cotton or anything like that. I think I would have just literally died before the first day was over. Dmom and I talked about how it must have been easier for people to acclimate to the heat when there was no ac indoors, and when they started going to the fields when they were children, actually, (my grandmother said they pulled my ddad and his brother and sister in a wagon while they picked cotton or worked the garden or whatever, until the children were old enough to put to work) -- and people started early, early in the spring and learned to endure the heat as it gradually increased. And of course, they all did like my dgdad, who was up at 4:00 a.m. and probably was mixing mortar when the sun came up. His day ended about the time I started out yesterday!
Anyway --
I spent my afternoon with that, so I marked off one round of outdoor zone work -- one hour, although it was actually more like two.
I just marked round one on that zone b/c it was the first time I've done anything on it this year. And we're in round three, right? I'm just trying to keep up with a rotation as Harriet has mentioned before, and although I LOOK at the calendar to see where I am SUPPOSED to be, but I also look to see what has been neglected the most. My outdoor zone is "Outdoor/Storage/Car/Misc"
After that,
I cooked supper,
dgd came over,
dmom came over (to bring me/ds a duffle bag FULL of sweater vests that ds will NOT wear, and they will be donated to goodwill... but she also brought a swimsuit of ddad's that ds will wear, AND one of ddad's basketball jerseys, which we think is from his 9th grade year.
THEN dgs arrived, and we spent some time outside, with him showing dh his skill (or lack thereof) in throwing, and he and dgd played awhile
THEN finally we went back inside and I FINALLY cleaned up the kitchen.
I don't know WHEN I have been so tired. DDIL didn't get here to pick them up till nearly 10:00 pm...
and then dh said he wanted ice cream.
So – I was still NOT s2s, but we went out to Sonic. Oh my goodness, that frozen cherry lemonade was so good.
I finally took a shower and washed my hair (and shaved my legs!) at about 11:00 pm. I slept good though.
So today, I have both dgrands while dh & ddil are gone to Nashville. (DS and band have a big thing going on tonight and he will ride home with dh & ddil.) Swimming lessons were cancelled b/c of rain, but dgs wants to spend the night with us, and dh will not be home till about 2:00 a.m. anyway, so he is staying. They will take dgd home when they get here.
For me personally, since I have instructions NOT to touch the hedge trimmer again, I guess I will try to catch up on laundry, change sheets, and dust.
Those three will be pretty good accomplishments with these two running around.
DGS is playing the piano, DGD is running around and worrying him to death. He just told her, "I'm NOT playing. I'm NOT playing."
I said, "What does she think you are playing?"
He said, "Chase & Scream."
I didn't know it had an official name.