Rain Day

Its raining for the second day in a row. I like it. Besides being real good for the new lawn it is also nice and cool. High today of about 6o - perfect. The older I get the less I like the heat, I don't think I could live in St. George again too freakin hot there. Of course we are going there in August of all times, Sherry apparently wanted to give old uncle CJ a heat stroke.
So I am trying to decide wether to go fishing or not today. I took Farley the damn dog fishing with me for the first time a couple of days ago. After teaching him to stay behind me he wasn't too bad. After I caught the first fish he really got into it. He would stay right at my side and watch the fly drifting in the current. He was totally fascinated by it, and he would get excited when I landed a fish, he would give it a little sniff and it would flip him in the nose and I would let it go. It was nice to have him around actually, maybe he will make a good fishing dog after all.

Hmmm

Well the house is pretty quiet. Boo is in Utah, Andy and his crew are somewhere in Canada and its just me and Farley the damn dog. Lisa pops in once in awhile but she likes selling houses or something, I don't ask. I passed the real estate exam on the first try last week. Seriously if I hadn't I would have drove into an embankment, it didn't seem too tough. ( but I hear that most don't pass on the first time ) Of course when you study online you never quite know how you are going to do. My online final was 180 questions and I got 94% but when I went to Spokane to take the test, they don't tell you what you got, which surprised me. You either pass or fail, they dont want the actual score used as a condition of employment or something. It seems to me that telling which questions you got wrong might be helpful, what if it is something important like can a monkey sign a quit claim deed and if so will the estate be fee simple or will it be held as tenants in common with its owner. Fact is most agents are good at one thing: figuring out just what the hell 6% comes out to. So now I am waiting to see what brokerage I will work at. In the meantime the lawn is coming in nicely and it quit raining. Summer finaly showed up. Peace

Zen And The Art of Landscape Maintenance

I paid someone to landscape my yard. There I said it. I still can't quite believe it, a sure sign that I am getting old and lazy. It has been bothering me ever since they started, and today it is done and I have to admit it looks really good. Still, I feel like I should have done it myself (except for the huge boulders) I didn't like they way they planted the trees or spread the rock and especially the clowns who put in the sprinkler system. I used to install systems back in the day at Green Valley in St. George while I was attending Dixie College so I know quite a bit about it. Way more than these guys, I suggested a training course to them "Irrigation 101 - Your Ass and a Hole in The Ground - A Comparative Study." It was bad, the leader was a fat lazy dude that rarely showed up, his crew were two tweakers and a pear shaped jackass that they called "Nipples" They could not dig a trench deeper than three inches. He did not have a trencher, he relied on his top notch crew to pick forlornly at the ground for hours on end with no visible result, it was agonizing to watch. Luckily the rest of the work was being done by a different outfit that did half of their trenching just so they could get it done. It has been a long week because I am here most of the day trying to study (online) and the whole process was a pain in the ass. They hydroseeded today which gives it a nice green color and looks kind of like a lawn so you get the gist of it. It's nice. I should have done it myself.