So i've always thought of myself as more of a condo/loft type of gal. I've never cut the lawn in my life, i despise dirt so you will never catch me gardening or raking leaves or painting, the list is endless. The past two weeks i have spent house sitting for a friend while her and her hubby have been away on their honeymoon. Let me tell you these past 2 weeks of housesitting have confirmed what i always thought to be true.
The work that goes into her backyard on a daily basis is ridiculous. Her neighbours have these enormous trees that completely hang into and over her yard. Not only did i spend many an hour sweeping up the leaves that had fallen, but they also have a gigantor cherry tree and as you can imagine, the cherries were everywhere. Some where smushed into the deck staining and discolouring it, many were rotting and had flies all over them ewe!!!! So everyday, at least twice a day i was out there sweeping up dirty, rotting cherries full of flies because the neighbours want to enjoy a forest in their backyard.
I had a bit of trouble trying to throw out the bag that i put the rotting cherries into. She told me to just use it for the week to throw out the various remnants that i had swept up and to eventually toss the bag out on garbage day. Well you can only imagine after a few hot hot days of 100 degrees or so the state that the bag was in. Let's just say there were too many fruit flies to count and it was starting to ferment and liquify at the bottom. I actually called my dad to come and throw the bag out for me, but then did it myself *stepping out of the box people.* I did almost vomit though.
Not only did the cherries and leaves fall onto the deck, but they also fell into the pond, which also needed to be cleaned on a daily basis. As well there was clearly a problem with said pond. It had to be filled up every few days with water as the levels would go down. This involved retrieving the hose from the side of the house where the neighbours yappy dog was and dragging the hose across the yard, filling the pond and putting everything back where it belonged every other day. I also had to scoop various things from the pond along with the cherries and leaves including a huge, fat, dead, bloated white earthworm ughhhh. It was revolting.
They also have a pool that needed to be maintained. That was my first time ever vacuuming one and i was surprised that it took as long as it did. Of course i was also skimming the water daily for the leaves and bugs and other various floaters in the water. We had a few windy days which knocked a lot of leaves into the pool and thus the filter basket was constantly needing to be cleared.
So, these past few weeks have reminded me of just why i will choose condo life over owning a home in a heartbeat. I'm not into rotting cherries covered in dirty flies and big bloated dead earthworms.
Oh and a note, because i'm a whiner....i forgot to mention in my last post that in my drunken stupor trying to get into the cab, i somehow jammed my finger and it swelled up to double it's size. Luckily PP came over with a splint for my finger, but it was bloody hard doing all that work with a mangled finger. It's still swollen almost a week later ... yikes!!
