haha! Howdy sir Glen! yeah like I don't know that's still happening around the world. lol.
I sure appreciate you stopping in though because it's a great reminder to get over to your blog, I've been meanin to for the last few days. I'm behind on all my steemit goals.
Steemit goals? You've got Steemit goals? :) I was thinking you were easing out of all of this. Seems like it. So why Steemit goals? Especially if you're behind. Speaking of which, I must be way behind in what's going on around your place. Do tell. :)
haha! howdy again sir Glen! Well my goals are to maintain the number of contacts I have and to keep slowly building my account but so far I haven't been able to maintain very well so I'm not really meeting my goals. We all need the price to start going up and stay up so we can justify our time here dog gonnit. lol.
There isn't much going on around here except for repair and maintenance of the place and with 10 acres to mow that job alone takes up alot of time plus trimming out trees that we don't want and doing landscaping work like planting grass and building terraces to control erosion..but the main goal is to put in new patios so I'm getting ready to work on that, in fact I started today. That's what the boss really wants to see completed this summer.
What about you guys, any special jobs your boss wants done? :)
Always. We're supposed to be receiving a new refrigerator today. She told me a day or so ago she wants the gutters cleaned out, and she's back to the fence, because she found a guy (maybe) that can do both. Plus she wants to repaint the hose, even though we've done that within the last 8-10 years (we've already done it once in the last 14). I finally managed to trim back the apple tree she wanted in between rain bursts, and I'm sure the garden will be the next thing up. She's been wanting someone to weed around the flower beds in front and back, but so far, none of that's been done. Shall I continue? :)
haha! Yes please continue, I love hearing this stuff because these lists sound familiar! lol. Gutters here too, painting, replacing wood trim, repainting an iron fence that first has to be stripped of all the rust. But we don't have a garden which
I'm thankful for because everytime I read about someone getting bit by a copperhead it's because they were working in
their garden and reaching down to pull weeds or pick some vegetable and apparently they love to hang out there and they
blend in so well you can't see them.
Does your wife want a fence built? If so then that takes ..well you know what that takes, special equipment. Most people hire Mexicans to do their landscaping but your wife says hey I got free labor right here!
New refrigerators are wonderful though, that's realy nice!
It's a backup refrigerator, believe it or not. The one we have stopped working, so we're replacing it. Doesn't want to draw power, even though the outlet's fine and everything else is good as far as I can tell. The new one is nothing fancy because it sits out in the shed, so no water dispenser or ice maker.
Oh, the fence is up. We built it (a couple of friends and I) shortly after we moved in here, so probably 13 years ago, give or take a few month. I had to redo most of the back end two or three years ago (with help) because it sits above the property behind it that the original owners decided to slope rather than terrace, and they did it right up to and a little past the property line. So, it rains, things start to erode more, and we have posts that are two feet deep starting to lean. So, now they're closer to two and a half to three feet deep. :)
The gate on the garage side of the house needs to be reworked and my wife would like me to redo the side yard fence facing the road.
The guy who mows and fertilizes our lawn is originally from El Salvador. :)
I don't think we have copperhead here, especially in town. We might get the occasional small lizard or garter snake. Looks like the worst we have around here is a western rattlesnake. Can't say I've seen any of those, either. Not in the garden, anyway. :)
Howdy today sir Glen! So you have to plant and maintain a garden too? Or is this a joint effort? Gardens are alot of work I think. that fencing situation sounds like work too though. lol. should be a fun summer for you, I think that's what you're saying. lol.
Too bad the refrigerator went out though, we rely on ours for the water dispenser for drinking water since it has the filter, is that what you do? And if you do, now what?
The refrigerator that went out is an extra one we use for overflow purposes. Since we have our son, his very pregnant wife and our grand daughter all living with us, we're buying more food than we normally would for ourselves. So the back up fridge/freezer helps when we can't pack enough into the one in the kitchen.
That one does have a water filter, and we do use it to drink out of, though, that's not so much a concern here. It's just another layer, and since it's cool to use, why not?
I think my summer is going to start as soon as the weather turns for any length of time, which could be as early as next week. I'm supposed to be calling a guy about the gutters and possibly the fence, but I'm no day three of that task and haven't gotten around to it yet. :)