
You Gotta Be Smarter Than the Stairs
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I thought I would share with you the valuable lesson(s) I just learned despite the fact that I have been on this earth for approximately 31 years and 9 months.
1) It is usually a good idea to wait until you have the sprinkler attached to the hose before you turn it on.
2) It is NEVER a good idea to detach a sprayer from a hose that is already turned on to full blast and then try to attach a sprinkler while trying in vain to kink the hose to suppress the flow of water.
2a) It is also a good idea to have the sprinkler already set up on the lawn before you unkink the hose. Trying to dig a sprinkler into the ground (an UNPOINTY one at that...wtf?? I thought they all had a point on the end to make for easier digging into the ground-ness.) while it is blasting cold water all over your camoflauge pants and tank top is somewhat difficult. Hypothetically speaking of course because even I cannot be that stupid...can I?
Oh, if my camera was working I would have taken a picture of the huge fricking black widow spider that I just discovered hiding in one of the front flowerbeds. Although there is the very likely possibility that it is no longer visible through the remnants of foam from the entire can of Raid I used to make sure it was dead...and then dead again and then dead once more. I am still shaking and getting little eerie chills all through my body. First of all, I am terrified of spiders on a good day but that is now the THIRD black widow I have found on these premises since we moved in in September. (The first was discovered on the night we were moving in) Also, my mom nearly died after being bit by a spider a few years ago and you don't shake something like that off too easily. (There were liver biopsies involved) As much respect as I have for living creatures (see BEES) I'm sorry but the sight of a spider, particularly one with a large red spot on it's tummy, is enough to make me shriek like a shrill 31 and 9 months year old woman who is about to be killed by spiders. In case you are wondering, it's a similar sound to that of a twelve year old boy who just got kissed by a girl with cooties...voice cracking and all.
Excuse me while I go change out of my soaking wet camoflauge pants and tank top and try to find suitable medication to alleviate the eerie chills STILL coursing through my blood
Update: Learned another valuable lesson approximately 2 hours after my first sprinkler lessons...I suppose this could be
2b) It is helpful to make sure the sprinkler is entirely screwed onto the hose so that the water sprinkles gently across your lawn and flowers as opposed to the gushing hose situation and entirely flooded front yard I just encountered when a chance glance out the window turned horribly horribly wrong. Also? Supposedly dead spider is no longer present in the spot I last saw it. Am hoping fervently that said spider has been carried away in the flood waters and did not, in its dying throes, manage to make it's way through the stucco into my house.
Oh you silly, silly lil lady...
's Berv, you crack me up...ALWAYS!
Well i now know ehat I'm getting you when you turn 31 years and 12 months.
doesn't Riley's tail look better....?????
Frig...even writing about it now give me shivers and chills. GAH.
hi beverly
. we don't like spiders we do this
. macaroni played with a bee yesterday and his one paw got really big but he didn't seem to mind
. we think you will get better at sprinkling in a few years
. happy hockey roodle doodle sunday
'nd after reading ur post, hmmm, maybe the new entry should read "beware of the bevster's backyard" - specially the bar-zebo
'nd then put a
for when it's safe or not! aghh, spiders, for all the good they do, i like them further away the better too! Have a GREAT - *Relaxing* Long Weekend!
Well, the spider probably disintegrated from all the spray, LoL! Don't think you have to worry about him anymore!