20111030-Weathery Ways

After spending time deleting Categories and Tags from my other WordPress.com weblog site for Plinky Prompts and Daily Posts and after eating breakfast, I decided to give the parakeets a bath. Maw was eating her cereal and later joined all of us in the backyard. Paw was eating his breakfast indoors. The two boy parakeets took a liking to the birdbath. The two girl parakeets kept fighting with each other. After washing the bird and drying the bird cage, I noticed the dead mouse head and grub and took a picture to share on my blog.

THEN, after Maw’s suggestion, Paw decided unwillingly to join us in dismantling one of the two open “shed” for Maw’s containers of orchid plants, which have not been giving us flowers. Maw and I worked on the removing the nails and staples from the make-shift, black mesh coverings. Since Maw is totally disabled and out of breath, I ended up removing most of the rusted nails from the HARD oak wood and the green, wavy plastic “roof” pieces. This went on until a late lunch at around 2:30pm. At 3:00pm, Maw helped to chisel th HARD oak wood so as to free the stuck nails. Earlier she was helping to re-wrap the old wires from the old orchid shed.

THEN, Maw had to rest and cook us dinner, including a late suggestion/request for hot soup, which Paw likes after a hard day’s work under a VERY mild weather with crispy clear blue skies of little to gentle winds. It was HOT under the mid-afternoon sun while I tried to remove the rest of the nail and I had to drink my energy drink of potassium and salt to keep from spasming, which did happen on the inside, right section of the rib cage where the sternum ends below.

THEN, I caught Paw struggling with the arrangement of another open shed. I quickly removed/dumped on the cement/slabs below the plastic containers (still in good condition) for Maw’s plants and some left-over wood. He spaced out, walked away and then returned to help me drag the slightly heave make-shift, wooden shed to its new location away from the side fence and to the original location of the old orchid shed. Now he has a nice pathway for walking. The shed is well organized with the LONG pieces of two by four woods on the bottom “shelf” and the plastic plant containers on the top “shelf”.

At 5:30pm, I’ve finished, dumped my clothes to be washed downstairs and hurried upstairs to take my shower. And now I’m done with this blog entry just a little bit after 6:00pm. My back hurted during the ordeal but no real pain could be felt just yet but I suspect later on the endorphine/pain killer will have worn off. So I’ll take something to keep from aching tonight.

Our tools were: one crowbar to yank the old wooden pieces apart, one steel-head hammer to pound back the nails, Paw’s idea of using one small piece of wood to help provide the torque and needed force to remove nail, one dull pruning sheers to cut the old wavy roof, two chisels to split the OAK wood and release the stuck nails, one “fish” knife to free old staples from the bamboo of the mesh covers and one long nose pilers to yank stubborn staples and cut twisted wir twines. The end.