I had a little incident last night that has inspired me to have a Top Ten list of stupid things that I have done lately. Mind you, this is not anything approaching an all-time list. This is just recent stuff that makes you wonder how I get through the day.
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Number One on the hit parade requires a little explanation. So the weather has been frosty at night and I've been moving my big ficus tree into the garage most days because it's so heavy and I'm too lazy to make the effort to get it in the house. But when I take a car out of the garage, or return it, I have to move the tree. So I get home from work last night, pull in the driveway, click the garage open, get out of the car, move the tree slightly (knowing that the tree has to stay in the garage), get back in the car, and pull it into it's space in the garage.
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I shut the car off, pick up some take-home things, get out, open the rear door to take the laptop into the house, close the rear car door, now with my hands pretty full, and click the garage door down. WITHOUT MOVING THE FICUS!! YOU IDIOT!!! How did I miss seeing it in the path of the door? Amazing. The next thing I hear as I'm a few steps toward the house is the cracking of branches. I'm stunned. Too stunned to get my hand on the clicker until the door hits the huge half barrel planter.
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So my most distinctive plant that I had previously pruned so that it would in fact fit in my house for the Winter now has a few more major branches pruned by the garage door. Brilliant.
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2. Lost my smart phone holster. Which leads me to carry the phone in my hand a lot. The phone was one of the items in my hands last night as I was juggling things to get into the house. .
3. Pulled Margret too close to the cement island at the bank drive-through, and ripped off a chrome piece on the passenger side below the doors. Really a smooth move there.
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4. Drove 1.5 hours into the mountains in Italy, one way, before finding the bike shop for my Galibier bike six blocks from our hotel in Turin. Maybe a 15 minute walk.
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5. Bought and installed end-to-end about 50 standard paving bricks as edging for the East front half of my house without looking at the brick edging on the other side of the front steps which happened to be a different color.
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That's all I have for now. Maybe a little more of my on-going tale of woe later.
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BCOT
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Number One on the hit parade requires a little explanation. So the weather has been frosty at night and I've been moving my big ficus tree into the garage most days because it's so heavy and I'm too lazy to make the effort to get it in the house. But when I take a car out of the garage, or return it, I have to move the tree. So I get home from work last night, pull in the driveway, click the garage open, get out of the car, move the tree slightly (knowing that the tree has to stay in the garage), get back in the car, and pull it into it's space in the garage.
.
I shut the car off, pick up some take-home things, get out, open the rear door to take the laptop into the house, close the rear car door, now with my hands pretty full, and click the garage door down. WITHOUT MOVING THE FICUS!! YOU IDIOT!!! How did I miss seeing it in the path of the door? Amazing. The next thing I hear as I'm a few steps toward the house is the cracking of branches. I'm stunned. Too stunned to get my hand on the clicker until the door hits the huge half barrel planter.
.
So my most distinctive plant that I had previously pruned so that it would in fact fit in my house for the Winter now has a few more major branches pruned by the garage door. Brilliant.
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2. Lost my smart phone holster. Which leads me to carry the phone in my hand a lot. The phone was one of the items in my hands last night as I was juggling things to get into the house. .
3. Pulled Margret too close to the cement island at the bank drive-through, and ripped off a chrome piece on the passenger side below the doors. Really a smooth move there.
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4. Drove 1.5 hours into the mountains in Italy, one way, before finding the bike shop for my Galibier bike six blocks from our hotel in Turin. Maybe a 15 minute walk.
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5. Bought and installed end-to-end about 50 standard paving bricks as edging for the East front half of my house without looking at the brick edging on the other side of the front steps which happened to be a different color.
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That's all I have for now. Maybe a little more of my on-going tale of woe later.
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BCOT
4 comments:
Nice photo cropping. That definitely has to be the xmas card.
Does Mom even send a card anymore? Is it allowed when Katie pretty much has her own family now? Susan, too, with her dog? Maybe Mary and I should look into a holiday card.
it's not like our family pictures in christmas cards were ever that complimentary. hello, kohls parking lot?
and you and mary for sure should do a card. you know susan and winnie will.
I don't believe in photo Christmas cards unless you have children. A pic of Winnie might be inserted to a few cards to people who have expressed interest in seeing her.
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