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. :)
Oh I get it sir Glen! our internet connection went out for almost three hours today so I'm way behind on everything. Ok, got it about the refrigerator. Well it's good the main one didn't give out on you.
How long is your son and daughter-in-law staying there?
Is there a reason you're going to hire someone to do the gutters? Besides it being a pain in the neck dirty job?
I'm not even sure. As far as I know, she hasn't been up there to look. We cleaned it out pretty good a few years ago, so there's probably some accumulation, but we'd gone quite a few more years prior to that, so I don't know. It was mostly the stuff coming off of the shingles the last time.
She knows someone at work whose husband cleans gutters and builds fences, so she got the guy's number and now I'm supposed to call him. :)
re: son and family
We don't know. He's in the process of getting his master's in education, and he needs to do some student teaching for a term, and right now, he doesn't have anyone to do that with yet, so we're kind of on standby until he figures it out. Most likely, they'll be here through the end of the year, if he gets the student teaching position around here.