MORE OCTOBER CHORES...
Cleaning and filling the Feline Entertainment Centers... 
There really is a gray cat in that window... The curtains were on the line. Don't ya love clean curtains? They will be covered with cat hair by this time tomorrow. Sigh.......... Plus, I didn't get the windows washed in this room yet. Bigger SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHHHHHHHH.........
See all the leaves? Spook is complaining about the noise they make while he is sneaking around bird watching. Sorry, dude... those leaves are going to wait a while for some more to join them before I get on the mower to mulch them up.
Punkie is a good weather watcher - when he is awake.
But the most exhausting thing I did today was write 3 checks for heating oil... mine, my God son's, and a neighbor's who is in Florida. You don't even want to know the total. At least I will get my neighbor's back in a week or two. GIANT SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... followed by a whimper.
There really is a gray cat in that window... The curtains were on the line. Don't ya love clean curtains? They will be covered with cat hair by this time tomorrow. Sigh.......... Plus, I didn't get the windows washed in this room yet. Bigger SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHHHHHHHH.........See all the leaves? Spook is complaining about the noise they make while he is sneaking around bird watching. Sorry, dude... those leaves are going to wait a while for some more to join them before I get on the mower to mulch them up.Putting away the rain gauges so they don't freeze... well, all but these 2 for now...
Punkie is a good weather watcher - when he is awake.Draining and storing 675 feet of hose... I thought I only had 500 feet until I took these pictures and added them up. And - I threw out 2 50 foot hoses this spring.
275 feet -
100 feet - patched, but it still works...
6 50 foot hoses in a HUGE Trash can - great for storing lots of hoses over the winter! This can is 4 feet deep.
These hoses needed to stretch from the back yard all the way past the right side of this picture - double the distance to the telephone pole on the edge of the picture. We planted 15 Crape Myrtles, 3 redbuds, 6 azaleas, and 4 camellias along this bank, and it was the driest summer in many years! Well, of course! 1/10th of a mile of Crape Myrtles to bloom in late summer, the camellias, redbuds, and azaleas in the spring... But the most exhausting thing I did today was write 3 checks for heating oil... mine, my God son's, and a neighbor's who is in Florida. You don't even want to know the total. At least I will get my neighbor's back in a week or two. GIANT SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... followed by a whimper.
3 comments:
When McCain wins/steals the election and your flee to Canada and my spare room, bring all that hose. I could use it here.
I have some idea what fuel oil costs. I used to fill my tank for $350 and someone told me the other day it is now around $1200. This is the reason I heat with wood. It is a lot cheaper since i cut it myself off my land. but a lot of work.
The drop in the price of a barrel of oil should be showing up in fuel oil costs!
You really had a lot to do... and I'm still coughing and hacking around here... especially if I try to talk...(to my daughter on the phone and my son in person).. my husband hurried to the drug store to get me some cough syrup... he's tired of hearing me...so typing doesn't make me cough..
I know what you mean about the fuel bills... and the colder weather is coming on...
Yep, your right I don't want to know what those three checks totalled. That, by the way, is a lot of hose.
Ralph
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