It's been a long and busy week. Taking one-day-at-a-time sub jobs can be like eating Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans; you don't know what exactly they'll be like or if you'll like them much once you've got 'em, but they are always an adventure. Good ones leave a lingering pleasantness, and the bad ones kind of disappear after you get done gagging. Having a long-term job can be better because the flavor's always the same, but if it's a flavor you don't like much after the first day you can't spit it out till the job's done. Sometimes the flavor grows on you, other times you just paste on a smile and gut it out. Like sucking one of those sour warhead candies Jones likes. This week I've had both kinds of beans. Monday was earwax. Yesterday was more like watermelon, with a brief appearance by sardine around lunchtime. Next week we shoot for chocolate truffle...
Anyway, today I was catching up on laundry, ironing, some computer time, and just general vegetating. S.P. came in to ask for some help with a project. An easy project, he said. Just sit in the truck and back it up when he said to. Aha. What's the catch?
"Well, I'm felling that dead tree and want to drop it without hitting the pumphouse."
As you can see, I didn't come near the pumphouse. Busted hell out of the corral fence though. Never ask a teacher to do a logger's job...
Oops.
ReplyDeleteHope you had a Happy Mother's Day anyway!
Yes, we did. Went clam digging and bagged three limits! I got the fat clam of the day and Pony Girl said it was "Mother's Day Luck."
ReplyDeleteThen in the truck I made some sassy remark and when somebody tried to shush me Jones said "Hey now, it's Mother's Day..she can say whatever she wants!" Wa-hoo. I plan to make outrageous statements all day now...
Earwax, huh? That's quite an image. Blech...
ReplyDeleteAnd that fence? Whoopsie.
I hope you took major advantage of "say whatever you want day". I would have. :)
ReplyDeleteOuch on the fence!