Kelly and I spent our day at home, doing chores and generally being productive. I woke up around 10am, went downstairs and cleaned the kitchen up and made coffee. Kelly rewarded me by making delicious buttermilk waffles. Hooray!
After that, while Kelly did some cleaning indoors, I took advantage of the semi-sunny early afternoon and washed our car. It’d been months, and it was filthy, inside and out. Gave it a good wash, took all the trash out of it, vaccumed, wiped the interior down and cleaned the windows. It’s all sparkly and shiny now. Almost like new, except for some paint chips and the odd new scrape / small dent I discover every time I wash the car. Grrr.
Once the car was shiny, I joined Kelly in some yardwork. We need to get our pruning done, and there’s quite a bit to do. As I walk into the back yard, pruning shears in hand, and notice that our sickly/dying apricot tree is leaning backward a bit more than I remembered (something that’s hard to tell from inside the house). As I walk up to examine, I realize that it’s leaning a lot back, and the soil around one side is pulling up. The poor tree is now starting to fall over. Argh! Need to get it cut down, soon. I set a stick under it at an angle, so I can see how urgently I need to buy a chainsaw. If it digs into the dirt at all (and I’ll be checking tomorrow) then I need to go buy a chainsaw and get to cutting immediately. Dammit.
Anyway, now I’ve got dinner cooking, and am enjoying a beer. Time to eat!
One reply on “Productive day ’round the house”
You might consider the NE Portland Tool Library or the North Portland Tool Library before running out to *buy* a chainsaw. Good luck with the apricot tree.