Monday, April 11, 2005
Mud holes, string, and windchimes
Following the torrential rains and near hurricane winds we have finally begun the ritual of Spring.
The first order of business is to clean off the back patio which has accumulated more junk than you could imagine over the winter. Then pick up limbs that have fallen out of the maple trees all over the yard in preparation for the first mowing of the year... woooooo hoooooo something else to do when I don't have something to do !
Oh yeah, I also have to back fill an excavation in the back yard that resembles an archeology dig at a Mayan Temple. Remnents of the sewer surprise earlier in the year. I just haven't had the time to get it done before now.
The garden is ready to till for the first time of the year as well but as luck would have it the motor on my Troybilt seems to have ceased to function as designed. That task took the better part of the day on Saturday until I just completely gave up on getting the tiller to run and by that time I was too tired to drag out my much older but still completely functional Ariens tiller. The rain is supposed to start again tonight and last for several days, so tilling is a couple weeks away.
The high winds also took their toll on several of the dozens of whirlygigs and windchimes hanging all around the back yard. Just one more thing to take care of when I get time.....
If I would only win the lottery so that bothersome work thing would go away then I would have almost enough time to get everything done.
