I'm having an especially enjoyable pipe out on the front veranda this morn. Winter has come back for a visit today - it's -27C but there's no wind. I've done my first chores: I made coffee early for the wife, I shovelled my sidewalks and the neighbour's, and the Niglet has gone for her walk The world belongs to me - for the moment. After my smoke I gotta go in and do my household chores.
Had a visit with Mom last week. I think I am on her shit list again. Typically I will send her a text every morn to make sure the frumpy old bitch is alive but she started ignoring me - which pished me right off. A couple mornings I sent her two and was gearing up to go over there and do a wellness check... but she'd responded with surly two word messages - "I'm fine." When a woman says "I'm fine" ya know damned well she's not - and you aren't going to be either! HAR HAR HAR! But... I fear I just got fed up and stopped texting her. If that's the way she wants it, whadda ya gonna do? I stopped texting her. If she died and went to hell... JL the cop and the poor ambulance guys could load her stiff on the meat wagon and at least I would have a plausible alibi when questions are asked about her demise. A week went by and the other day I got a text ordering me to come by and fix her stairs.
She has a wonderful little adopted pocket dawg and in the course of their play - she'd knocked the nosing off one of the steps leading into the living room off the front entrance. I loaded up my RC Airplane glue pot, tape, epoxy, stirring sticks and Gorilla glue and went over to have a look. It was all hardwood so I did a quick light sand on the bearing surfaces, and figured we'd go with Gorilla first - if it held, great. If not, I'd get mad and go to epoxy. She was extremely polite and cordial and I had a quick cup of coffee and even a brownie afterward. She's doing well, the pup gets her up and out every day, she has a lot of other old biddies in her neighbourhood that keep tabs on her, and there is a single middle aged cat lady she pays to shovel the sidewalks and mow the lawns in the summer - so at least there are eyes on her all the time. Plus she loves my wife so when the old bint gets miserable I just get the wife to text her and periodically visit. I am not the son she wanted, she is not the mother I wanted... but I guess we're making it work. Her time is so short. We play the hands we're dealt and we're all doing well enough, thanks to God, Gorilla Glue, and a few long pieces of masking tape. And - if the glue fails... there's always epoxy... HAR HAR HAR!!! She texted me back and let me know the glue held and all is well, and even thanked me. Hmmmpffff!
Ugggghhh. The wife has made a helluva mess in the kitchen, the Reclusium looks like a bomb went off, and I have a morning with the shop vac, the broom and a dust pan. But... I think my ass froze to my chair! A good warm Old Man Fart will fix that!
Whadda YOU doing, loafing around? Ain't you got better things to do? Get back to work!!! And be sure to have a good time while yer at it! Thanks for dropping by!
Cheers!
Filthie
I'm heading out to reconnoiter my AO on the quad! It's going to be an chilly 3c and sunny here in LotusLand! I pity you flat landers!
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You're a better man than I would be, I'd farm her off to to the "Good Son", so as to spare her the misery of your presence. I'm SO fortunate that my lives-with-us mother in law is a decent lady, going on 12 years now.
ReplyDeleteGot off my ass yesterday, transferred half a cord of of mill waste (wood that's removed to get to the board wood) off my trailer, into my T-bar fence post, jig. Then cut it into firewood lengths for the air tight, cast iron stove and stacked it onto the raised stone storage area. It was a lot like work. It had, coincidentally, warmed up to a balmy 62' F, bonus. Starting Sunday nite and for the next week it's supposed to drop into the low teens, with a high in the day in the 20's, yay.
Now, I'll go deal with the sink, kitchen, the wife cooks, I clean. It's a good deal.
Fortunately none of it is my call, Mike. After my daughter went sideways with the approval of that clan I just refuse to get involved with family decisions and they’ll answer for them too. I just help out where I can and do as I’m told but otherwise - f ‘em. It’s a nice position to be in hen things get stupid as they frequently do with those people.
DeleteToday was twice monthly barn clean, muck out animal pens. Reload mouse traps and clean up the mess the animals make. Then come into the house, and shower. Start packing to head back to site next week
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I'm taking the new CV19 test and happily doing so too!
ReplyDeleteThis Woman Presents a New COVID Test
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That Most of Us Can Get Behind. I’m onboard! DG
Is this the last booster shot talking?
DeleteGOOD IDEA! I never got a covi test, didn't trust them, I trust this one!
DeleteI was recommended to read "The manipulated man" by Esther Vilar yesterday. Not on Audible or Kindle, and a quick search shows why - it's out of copyright, written by a prominent feminasty and available as a free PDF to peruse at your leisure. Only 108 pages long, but it is very interesting reading. Much is rose fertiliser, but she does drop a lot of home truth that explains female behaviour - at all ages. I'd suggest a read if you have a free two hours or so. It's easy reading & won't take long.
ReplyDeleteI am gonna check that out! Thanks, A!
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