Hot and more hot with a side of hot.\u00a0\u00a0 Humid too.\u00a0 Joy.<\/p>\n
I did get a lot done yesterday, even if it wasn’t stuff from the top of my list.\u00a0 In fact it was from pretty far down on the list, but it fit perfectly with scorching hot weather…. I spent five hours pressure washing things.<\/p>\n
The house front and the entry way both needed pressure washing.\u00a0 I wanted to do it before spraying for bugs, as I didn’t want to wash away the poison.\u00a0 And since the wife has moved “killing the gorram bugs” up my list, I got out the pressure washer.\u00a0\u00a0 Usually I pay an itinerant worker about $200 to do the whole house.\u00a0 He hasn’t come by this year though, so the brick was looking green, and the siding was looking dirty, and the gutters and drip edge were black.\u00a0\u00a0 Once I’ve got the washer out, running, hoses set, fuel can ready, I can’t help myself… everything looks better after being pressure washed.<\/p>\n
The flagstones on the walk are no longer green.\u00a0\u00a0 The walk is no longer blackish-green.\u00a0 The white truck is white.\u00a0 The fence (driveway gate) looks new again. The driveway is a clean tan, instead of black (well, about 2\/3 of it, the last should happen today.)\u00a0 The siding, brick, and trim on the house all are their original colors.\u00a0 Everything looks freshly scrubbed.<\/p>\n
Today I have to cut the grass to complete my ‘grey man’ strategy of looking like all the other houses on the block.\u00a0 And finish spraying the driveway.\u00a0 And maybe wash my Ranger, and my wife’s vehicle.\u00a0 I noticed a funny thing about the vehicles on my block.\u00a0 With the exception of my blue ’03 Ranger, all 7 of the vehicles parked on the street were white.\u00a0 I’ve read that when the economic mood in the country is dour, people buy conservatively colored vehicles.\u00a0\u00a0 On my street, for the last few years, almost everyone’s bought pretty conservatively….<\/p>\n
BTW, the pressure washer started on the first pull after I put gas in it.\u00a0 Run your small engines dry and you won’t have a jacked up carb that needs cleaning before you can run your gennie or pump, or lawnmower…. it makes all the difference in the world.<\/p>\n
Organize your stuff, maintain it, stack it high.<\/p>\n
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Hot and more hot with a side of hot.\u00a0\u00a0 Humid too.\u00a0 Joy.<\/p>\n
I did get a lot done yesterday, even if it wasn’t stuff from the top of my list.\u00a0 In fact it was from pretty far down on the list, but it fit perfectly with scorching hot weather…. I spent five hours pressure washing things.<\/p>\n
The house front and the entry way both needed pressure washing.\u00a0 I wanted to do it before spraying for bugs,<\/p>\n