Physical Labor

I am too young to feel this crappy after doing physical labor. My job does not consist of physical labor and I usually do not workout but still!

I have had the pool ready to put away for about a week and a half. Luckily it had not rained ~ until Saturday night/Sunday morning!

I called Dick (remember he left Saturday night and planned on staying in town?) It was later in the afternoon when I called him to see if he was going to be home because the pool needs to get put away.

I can not do not want to move it by myself because of a *previous injury*. As I was speaking to him I was looking at the pool and noticed that it had water in it again. He said to me “that’s not a big deal just use the ShopVac to vacuum it out.” I spouted back “it’s not a big deal to you because you have not already done that and you have not already spent hours on it getting it cleaned out like I have. It was ready to put away a long time ago and now it needs to be cleaned again!” Pissy? Me? Hell yeah!

He then said “just leave it I will get it.” I said “so cleaning up the pool again is your responsibility? Putting the pool away is your responsibility? You will do it?” He said yes.

Well, I know how he is with any type of responsibility! He runs! I tugged and pulled the pool into the garage. I left it right in the doorway so that it would be in the way and so that he would have to do something with it. I tried to fold the ground liner! That was not happening with the wind so I rolled it into a ball and put it in the garage by the pool. I had already drug the cover into the garage ~ on the way it picked up dirty. The dirt turning to mud because the cover was wet ~ again! It is a good thing that I was so angry because I don’t think that I would have had the strength to move that pool otherwise.

I drug the cover into the front yard anchored it with bricks so that it could flap in the wind and dry then I could just sweep the mud off of it.

While the cover was flapping in the wind I finished hacking down my flowerbed that I so neglected all summer. I asked Tyler to do it and he did start it. He must have tuckered out or just wanted to go play ~ which I can not blame him for. So I finished hacking it. Then I raked and bagged all the hackings. I even drug that bag to the garage.

On the north side of the house I just about got eaten alive by little mosquitoes! They weren’t so bad while I was working on the west and east side nor the south side of the house. The north side was blocked of the wind.
I hacked the weeds there as far as I could with the electric weed eater. I needed a longer cord but I said “piss on it!” I left about two feet of weeds at the corner of the house.

Then I hauled crap to the garage. The ShopVac, the mosquito machine, my clothes line. I even moved the post that was supposed to be cemented into the ground but had been pulled up by the wind. (The ground was so saturated with rain and the wind was so strong that it got pulled out.) So I hauled the post and 50 pounds of cement. I did not put that in the garage I just set it behind the garage.

Then I came in the house and took a shower. Now it was time to start supper. I don’t cook very often but I bought some boneless pork chops at the grocery store last week and I took them out to thaw. I had no choice but to cook. Had I not taken them out I would not have cooked. I was beat!

Dick likes pork chops but he doesn’t like them breaded as well as he likes them just fried. I breaded the pork chops! I was pissed so that was my retaliation. I’ll bread your pork chop! I made boiled potatoes and corn on the cob.

While the food was cooking I cleaned the entry way. Shook the what? 8-10 foot rug. Swept, vacuumed, and scrubbed the floor. You know the story about all the dust and fine soil that finds it’s way in!

After we ate I was cleaning up the kitchen when I got a phone call so I grabbed a smoke and went outside. Had a short chat then came back in everyone was cleaning the table. I got back into the sink of dishes and Dick said “I will do those.” More retaliation! “Nope I got it!”

Then I had a snooze. I thought that I would be out for the night but I only slept for about 30 minutes. Usually when I do that I am up all night.

I watched Dirty Dancing Havana Nights. Dirty Dancing is one of my all time favorite movies. I enjoyed Havana Nights too! I actually watched the whole movie without falling asleep! After that I went to the couch, found something to watch, set the timer on the television, and went to sleep.

Now here I sit listing to the air conditioner and drinking coffee! I am sore as hell! My back, arms, and legs are screaming at me for being so bull headed! Now that the pool is put away I can make an appointment with the chiropractor. I wouldn’t make an appointment before because I was almost positive that I would be moving that pool even though I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to.

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