We have taken next week off from work and unlike the past few years we are not flying or driving off to the opposing corners of the lower 48 states — we are staying home. When asked where we are going, I have been half kiddingly telling everyone at work that we are going nowhere because we spent all our money on remodeling the bathrooms.
The truth is we are going nowhere, we’re staying home, but it won’t be all pina coladas by the pool for me, mainly because we don’t have a pool, but because I have rooms to paint, the two “new” bathrooms, two bedrooms and the hallway between them.
Plus the outside of the house needs a spring cleaning. I need to blow all the oak pollen clusters off the roof and the siding needs to be pressure washed. I’ve got a bottom-of-the-line pressure washer that I’ve used the last couple of years on the deck and when I mentioned I might even do my driveway, buddy Mark volunteered to lend me his gas powered 4.5 HP Troy Built pressure washer so as to speed up the process. He gave me 2 pieces of advice for using his washer compared to my wimpy unit; 1} don’t spray anywhere near your window screens because you’ll cut right through them like a hot knife though butter (don’t ask him how he knows) and 2} if you have no shoes on and see a spider, poisonous or not, walking across your foot, do not try to spray him off with the washer, trust him, the spider bite would be immensely less painful.
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