Well that time of year has come again where you spend more time inside than out. It's cold and the wind is beginning to blow hard enough to take the bark off of the trees. Time again for coats, boots, gloves and the almighty window plastic.
Now to let all of you that live in new houses know, the old houses do not have the fancy windows that shut and lock. We don't have double pane glass, in fact the glass some of us have is kind of wavy and cool to look through. The only problem with that type of window system (if you call it that) is, it does not keep the cold out, it steams up on the inside with any increase in heat, and it sweats and leaves puddles of water on the sill, as well as on the floor and down the wall.
We have over the years figured out that the older the house the more leaks it has in the most inopportune places. The breeze in our house can be cold at times. NOT this year. I have over the past few days, been up and down a ladder probably 50 or more times. I have cut brier bushes away from the house, taped and stretched plastic (enough to cover most of the house completely), and fallen in numerous holes (dug by my wonderful little dogs).
The last time I went up the ladder fixing the plastic, I had an audience. Rudy, our newest addition was sitting in the leaves at the base of the ladder. He sat there staring up at me with this "What the hell are you doing way up there", look on his face. I would smile and call his name. His back end would wiggle uncontrollably and he would bark at me. Then it happened. Oh ya, stretch out just a little bit further to attache the piece of plastic to the tape. That's it stretch, stretch, almost...........oh shit.... now I'm laying on my back on the ground covered in leaves and Rudy thinks I'm there to play with him. Dam, my ankle hurts, my butt hurts and I am covered in leaves from head to toe. Rudy, get away, quit licking me and biting the leaves in my hair. He tried to pull me across the grass by my hair like he does to our other dog, Bear. Stop you little bugger, and leave me alone. Off he trotted to the dog door and in he went. Now I'm here by myself...... laying there for a minute, I pondered what would happen had I really taken a bad fall. How would I get anyone to help me, if no one knew I was there. You see I was on the north side of the house, surrounded by a chain link fence. Not many people look back there.... From now on I take my phone with me. Yes that is a great idea, why did I not think of that before this happened? Stupid girl, up a ladder with no phone.
Get up.... get back on the horse or in my case ladder. Up I went to finish the job. The north side of the house is done..... yeeehaaa. Only a few more to do on the south side... that can wait till next week... It's my birthday and I am not going to finish this till next week, anyway it's cold outside. See you in the spring.
