Today there is a hole in my yard! There’s a nice man here making the most perfect trench I have ever seen. He says he’s uncertain whether or not he’ll have the water back on by dinnertime, which means we may have to go out to dinner. OH NOES! Not out to dinner. I hate that when they make the delcious fattening food for you and then take the dirty dishes away after.
He showed me the old pipe from when this duplex was a house, and the current leaky-ass pipe. He offered to fill the trench with water so that my neighbor and I could get the babies out for a playdate. I like him!
I thought this might be a good opportunity to move out the “evidence” in my freezer chest, but that’ll have to wait until after the new pipe’s put in. The man outside said he’d take small bills and “no heads.” That’s okay! I want to keep the head, because it reminds me when we’re almost out of Fudgesicles!
I thought maybe someday I’d grow out of the urge to follow people around and watch them doing things like dig holes and take pictures while they’re doing it…but I’m almost 30, so maybe not.
This is the only time it’s good to be a renter.
I’ll loan you some water wings if you still want that playdate. Maybe a sled or two?! You sound like me…I’m the type to sit and watch people do their work and ask them questions about it and chit chat and this than and the other. Is it a downfall? I don’t think so…it’s interesting to get to know people that you normally might not talk to. Sweet trench btw. Very nice!
I think it’s a librarian thing – that curiosity about almost everything and desire to research, just to know. Also probably professional appreciation, it’s nice to see someone doing their job well. If it makes you feel better (and doesn’t scare you too much), I’m a reference librarian and I would do exactly the same thing.
Yes indeedy – good to be a renter. I’d be having a heart attack right now. It is a lovely hole though. So tidy.
I’m 50 and I still follow repair people/hole diggers, fascinated as ever. No librarian, though. IT geek.
Suuuuure a “hole” in your yard. Looks like a crime scene to me.
Midwesterners display parsimony mumble headlining … Thanks!!!