Yesterday was a total blast. You wouldn't think it from my choice of activity. I volunteered to go and help my Mother with yard work. Kara offered to come along. Kara's mom decided to join us at the last minute.
The funny thing was, my mom didn't know I was bringing all this help, and she decided to jog up to the grocery store,
where she ran into an old friend,
and went out to coffee.
When she finally came home, she found me and Kara hard at work outside, and Kara's mom merrily cleaning the inside. See, mom? That's what friends are for!
Now, I tell you that Yvonne was 'merrily' cleaning, and I assume that's true. Kara and I were merry to the brink of Absolute Silliness outside.
We raked leaves. You already know my thoughts on that chore. It's useless until they are all actually Off the blasted trees!
There were leaves on the roof, as well. I was thinking that it would be wise to sweep them off, as our next task was to clean out the gutters. So I climbed onto the roof. With a broom. Oh, that was so much fun! I was singing that song from Merry Poppins,,,,you know the one they sing while dancing with the chimney sweeps on the rooftops of London?
I peered down thru the skylight to the kitchen 16 feet below. Kara suggested that I dive thru the skylight Mission Impossible style to steal the wine.
We cleaned out the gutters; a task that hadn't been attempted since the Eisenhower administration. There were fresh leaves atop a sticky black substance which smelled of baloney. And lots of rain water. We took turns teetering atop an unstable ladder and scooping out wet hands full, which we let fall to the ground with a satisfying "PLOP!" We wrinkled our noses and said "Ew!" each time. Kara said that dropping a messy gunk from that height made her feel like a bird.
I chased the leaves around on the deck with a leaf-blower and created this swirling wonderland. I was imagining myself as a powerful beauty in a movie. You should have seen it! You know how the sci-fi heroine makes temporal objects swirl about her with her powers? That was me on the deck.
I was a Beautiful, Powerful, sci-fi movie star.
Kara was an indelicate bird.
Kara was raking and apparently not paying too much attention. Suddenly she noticed what she's been raking around. "O! Antlers!" She exclaimed, "Something died!" Which I thought was pretty humorous for a couple reasons. One was that she appeared to think that a buck had curled up and died right there by the tree, leaving only it's remarkable headgear. Secondly, the fact that she was clearing the foliage from around this monstrous rack, and it barely dawned on her what she stood before. She can be kinda funny that way.
All-in-all, we got a lot done and laughed ourselves sore.
1 comment:
this does sound like fun, but as i climbed onto my roof to see if i too could have this much fun i realized that it was just me up there. I pressed on and as i neared the gutter to begin goup scooping i found that the black goup didnt smell anything like balogna but maybe this isnt the fun part i told myself maybe i should try dropping some like a giant condor. YES!!! now that was fun!!!so around i went yaaahooweee!! When i finished one side and climbed down from my perch i realized my demize, black ...poop smelling tar strewn about the yard , splattered on the house and smearing up the walkway,thats when it dawned on me that this would be much more fun if i were too fling the poop smelling tar into the neighbors yard never to be seen again!!!!YES much more fun, so i raced back to my perch to begin hurling black tar poop bombs onto my unsuspecting neighbors yard very gratifying!!!
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