Up and At’em
Yup, I was really up early. No sleeping in. Ya right. It was 8:15. We must have had a busy day yesterday because I beat Dennis by thirty minutes.
Dennis had a day of ramrodding some landscape issues. Fourteen years ago, Dennis’ grandson, Jake, was killed when a school bus t-boned Jake’s pickup on his way home from school. At the time, the school friends collectively made a memorial garden at their farm place. In time to come, Jake’s mom died of cancer and son Ken, moved to Arizona. Dennis and I became caretakers of some items from that garden. Those items were at the far east edge of the acre in a flower bed.
As we have already had Kevin till up some flower beds, that far east flower bed that lies in a strip could very likely have grass fill it in. It was time to bring those cement mementos up next to the patio.
The cement pheasant wasn’t that difficult to bring up to the patio for a needed spruce up. The 300 lb. deer was another story. Where would we be without nephew Brett and his concrete crew. Dennis made a phone call and snagged them as they were coming back into town. I never knew what a Tommy lifter was on the end gate of a truck. The truck backed up to the deer and two fellows lifted it a mere six inches high and the deer, on the end gate, was lifted for transport. We thought they would drive onto the patio. Not! Two of the fellows lifted it and carried it across the patio to its resting place, ducking branches, nestled under the lilacs. Oh for the brute strength of the young. Our patio area has just been enhanced. Sweet.
For the second time in so many days I was on the phone with Mediacom. Ya sure. I had the Hp hooked to a new WiFi address and a new password. When I went to print something yesterday morning it clicked in my head. We had not hooked the Dell laptop in the studio or the printer to the new WiFi address or password. No service available.
I called the same phone number in Florida that I had to get us off the hook of having 12 different units using us fraudulently. In a heart beat I was transferred to tech support. Had I used the Mediacom number in the phone book, I would have been put on hold for a long time. That usually entails going through options up the butt and still not a human to talk to.
Lisa Ann was so patient with me. I had to make a trip or two to the HP on the first floor of our home and then back down to the studio. I found out more about setting up the printer than what I ever knew what some of those options entailed. It took Grammie a good hour and I never thought my left hand and arm could hold my telephone for that long. Whew!
Both Dennis and I got a lot accomplished yesterday. I have said many times . . . “how can some people our age be bored.”
Today, we both were busy outside. I want to take more of an active part in the gardens around the patios. Lots of clover to pull up . . . not so much as break off as the soil is like concrete. Dennis got the garden hose out and watered down the area where the worst was of the clover. I got muddy shoes and muddy hands but a fair amount of area was covered. It worked slick. Guess who will be sleeping good again tonight! You can’t imagine how good it feels to get physically tired.
Tomorrow we head for a pulmonary appointment in Mankato.