yardgranny6's Blog

Another Day in the Yard
Jul 6, 2007 | 1:22 PM PST

 Well another day in the hot and humid SC weather.  Mowed the front yard first thing about 8am.  Too miserable to do it later.  And besides I was waiting for Amy's brother my son Brent to come help with a few things. 

It was nice having him here for an hour or so.  He managed to put up my 'good' birdfeeder.  Yes there are good and bad feeders.  This particular one is my large 'squirrel proof' feeder.  It is about 20 or so years old.  Has been knocked down from one perch by a Hurricane some years ago and fought off huge Blackbirds and Grackles as well.  At one point I had to quit putting seed out to discourage the Grackles.  They make such a mess and won't let any other bird come to the feeder.  So now it has a new coat of paint a new piece of wood to screw it into the pole and is ready for the business of feeding the feathered masses.

This time we placed it low enough that ole granny here doesn't have to climb the ladder to fill it.  Which I did before I came in out of the heat. Will watch today as the Cardinals, Blue Jays, Mockingbirds,Sparrows, finches (several types), woodpeckers and many others find out 'where's the seed'.  Remember that commercial about 'where's the beef'? I still miss that old lady.  She was a dilly.

Brent also moved the very heavy metal table with the disintergrating table top around to the other side of the shed.  No easy feat but as most men have  muscles in all the right places to shove, push and pull heavy weights he got it done in good speed.  This is when I wish women could have the upper body strength to do the type lifting men can do.  Without being a weight lifter that is.  The drawer in this table had been stuck for months (again SC weather you know) and with one good bump while turning the table over the drawer is no longer stuck.  There's one more project to do.  Fix that drawer where it will be useful. In the process of all this bumping and pulling and pushing, the old and rotten compressed wood top just fell out and then you could see that the foundation boards for the table top were rotting.  So now it really needs a new top.  To say nothing of the peeling and cracking paint coming loose from the metal.  You never get everything done do you?

Next job was putting up the old hose hanger that has been laying around for maybe 4 years after having to be moved when we added on to the back of the house.  It will do for the time being, unless it too crumbles under the weight of the water hose.  Got tired of seeing the hose lay in a heap on the ground.

When we added a ramp to enable my Don to get in and out of the house more safely, the light fixture at the back door became a medieval torture weapon for anyone taller that 5 feet.  It was a very large fixture that looked as if it really needed to be on a livery stable.  But hey, for 10 bucks on sale, at the time it seemed like a good thing.  A deck lamp was put in its place and looks very nice and is not going to knock my 6' 2" grandson Scott out when he comes to visit.

In all we had a productive span of time together and Brent left to finish painting his kitchen cabinet doors.   He has to work on home projects in spurts and you know what that does to a woman's world.  Drives us all nuts. Maybe he will get things put back together by the end of the day???  Did that happen Karen??  She will let me know later when I go up the street to get some Peach Cobbler and maybe Banana Nut Bread, if Brent had time to bake it.

Yes, all three of my children are very good cooks.  I always told the boys that they might not marry a cool girl that could cook and do their laundry.  So they learned early on to run the washer/dryer and to cook something.  I on the other hand do not like to cook.  So maybe they really learned to do those things in self defense. Because they both married my other 'daughters' and both of them are really good 'cookers' as the grands would say when they were tots.

Now I have to prepare myself mentally to do some shopping.  I am not a shopper unless I am in Lowes', Home Depot or at the Farmers Market where they have flowers, plants and veggies.  A clothes hog I am not.  And Wally World is not my first choice of somewhere to just wander around. UGH! Great place when you need it though.  And if I cannot find my items at my favorite variety stores (Dollar General or KMart) I may be forced to do the WW thing.

That's it for today.  More to come later.  Linda B from SC