Monday Begins

[lydamorehouse]

 Mason is headed back to Wesleyan at the end of this month and so we are rushing to get a few house projects done before he heads out. This morning--at THE MOST AWKWARD TIME, of course--the Home Depot truck showed up with our pallet of retaining wall bricks. Worse, because he arrived on a day when all of the Homesmart Energy people are at work at the end of my block, there was NO WAY he could maneuver his little forklift to leave the huge pile of bricks on a wooden thingie anywhere but on the street. 

So Mason and I ended up having to breakdown the pallet first thing. Mason had barely shaved. I didn't know which end was up. But, somehow, miraculously, we got all the bricks moved up to a spot under our maple tree and the wooden pallet rolled into the backyard, hopefully to be gifted to someone on the neighborhood Buy Nothing group.

Now I'm just sweaty and tired and EXTRA stupid, you know?

Seems like a Monday.

Comments

[glaurung]

Todays pedant note: palate= part of the mouth. Pallet= wooden thingie on which large loads are stacked.

[lydamorehouse]

Indeed. I will change it.

[glaurung]

Sorry to be annoying.

By the way, I am nearing the end of Welcome to Boy.net and enjoying it quite a bit.

[offcntr]

Not to mention palette--flat thingy to mix paints on.

English is a heckuva thing sometimes.

[offcntr]

Speaking as someone who had to break down a ton of clay today, dropped on a pallet in my driveway, you have my sincere sympathy. I have to take it, five boxes (250 lbs) at a time, up the ramp on a handtruck into my studio.

And now I have two more pallets to get rid of (total of six at the moment).