Back to “Work” on Monday
Michael loves Mondays. He gets to go back to his cushy job. When he’s home on the week-ends, he’s either chainsawing trees, scooping dog poop and mowing the lawn, or fixing something on one Rover or another, etc., etc., etc. It’s a homeowner thing… some people just wouldn’t understand….And his regular job consists of mostly sitting at a computer, doing, maybe, one chair massage per day, 4 regular massages most weeks, and walking the office dogs a few times each day. It’s rough, but he (brave soul that he is) takes it all in stride.
Monday is just like any other day for me. I make breakfast, do the dishes if Michael doesn’t have time, then clean the house, do laundry, and get to my appointments. If I don’t have appointments, there’s the homeowner stuff….or other business owner stuff….catching up on bookkeeping, blogging, etc. Today, I had to clear the “WAPA path”.
Our electric meter is on the backside of our house. The meter reader needs to get to it, but I ‘m not always home to put the dogs away so s/he can get to it (and even if I’m home. it’s too much of a pain in the butt to put all the dogs away for him to do his/her 30 second job on our property). So we clear a path on the abutting property on the other side of the fence for him/her to walk on to get to where s/he can read the meter with binoculars. The recent rains have caused the guinea grass to grow taller than me and even though it’s not necessarily right IN the path, it bends over to the path and obstructs passage. Baby tan-tan trees were growing in the path and other obnoxious weeds were in the way as well. I worked for a large part of the morning with the pick-axe, pitch fork and hedge trimmers, and most of it is gone now. It’s out of the WAPA guy’s way until next month (hopefully my work will last longer than just a few weeks, but this is the tropics, where forests grow overnight under the right circumstances). If it needs to be done next month, maybe Michael will be done with the Rovers for a while and it’ll be his turn…
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