Category: Odd Jobs
Work Through Your Hunger
Painted in Three Days
Last weekend Titi, Lachlan, and I helped an aunt and uncle paint the exterior of their house. They had moved north some time ago, and the paint job was in preparation for selling the house. It was a long drive to the work site for everyone involved so it meant sleeping over […]
They Call Me Animal
This past Saturday I picked up a new name. I’ve been called a lot of things in life, and now I’ve been called an animal.
It all came as a result of a job I was working. I was asked to dig a ditch by a lady I shall call SB. Initially the plan was for […]
XP in The Countryside
A Job
Taking a phone call is like going on an adventure. You never know what will happen.
Mom hands the phone to me and says it is someone who says they are a friend of Mrs. B and they have computer trouble.
“Hello?” I take the phone, wondering exactly what this will be. I somehow have the […]
Hitting The Bottom
I think we’ve hit the bottom of winter. This is to say I think we’re past the half way mark, not that the worst is over. I certainly hope the worst is over, but sometimes winter gives the worst in the second half. It’s been a pretty tough first half of the winter, so I’m […]
Working . . . In The Mud
Fall is the time when people around here start thinking (sometimes belatedly) about preparing for winter. Last winter K.D., a neighbor living a street over, had problems with her barn pump freezing up. As this fall came around, she thought it was a good idea to figure out what was causing her pump to freeze […]
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