I decided to put my little pool up today. It will absolutely be worth the pain later, when the Nebraska heat hits 1000 degrees, but it was a pain in the ass. Leveling (again), shoving poles into other poles (no innuendo intended), and spiking my water bill for the next three months. It's dirty already, and I can't afford a proper pool vacuum, so I will be seen any given day scooping debris out of the pool by hand. (Why did I ever move from an apartment building with a proper pool and workout facility included? (I think it had something to do with my irrational fear of other people burning down the building...)
I also just spent $50 on chemicals to kill and/or repel things from my yard. Bunnies, squirrels, birds (repel) - ants, flies, gnats, mosquitoes, grubs (kill). All those little fuckers are ruining all my hard work by eating the shit I planted. This isn't a socialist garden; it's MINE. So they have to go.
And then, for every plant I intentionally put in the ground, there are roughly 100 plants which don't belong. I have pulled out about 500 (seriously, no exaggeration) little maple trees from my yard. They are tenacious little fuckers, growing in places I can't even reach. Even the stupid bunnies don't want the maple trees. Just now, trying to spray a chemical barrier around my sunflowers to stop the onslaught of fuzzy little creatures, I inhaled a couple lungs full of whatever is in that bottle. Thank god I got the eco-friendly variety, but I still have a terrible red-pepperish burning in the back of my throat. If their are no more blog posts, you can assume I succumbed to the toxins.
Every time I go in the back yard to relax, I end up picking weeds. I wish I could be a lazy sack of shit like my neighbor and just guzzle beer in the garage, but I can't sit still while NATURE tries to outplay my man-made (lower-case) nature.
I'll get those bastards. I've got nothing else to do for now... :)
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