Wednesday, October 26, 2011

yesterday

If you read my post yesterday, you know that I had some guys coming to cut down trees and that since I needed to be at home while they were doing it, I was going to try to accomplish a lot on my own!  There were 5 men actively working on our trees with 2 additional men giving instruction and supervising.  Let me tell you what....I am not sure I've ever seen a group of men work as hard as these 5 men worked.  The trucks pulled up at 8:30 and by 8:35 they had chain saws going and were hard at work.  I had a tough time getting started with my chore-list because it was so much fun watching the men work.

But eventually I remembered that my bedroom floor looked like this:


Although, actually it looked worse than this.  I took this picture several days ago and laundry had continued to get piled higher and higher on our floor.  But...at least you can tell that I tried to lay it out flat!   I didn't want it to get wrinkled or anything while waiting to get folded or hung up!  ha, ha!!!

By 10:00 I needed an little extra motivation since I was spending too much time watching in awe out my window to see how they trimmed and cut down my trees!  I decided I was going (try) to match them in their intensity and efficiency and so I made my own little "challenge" to get my List finished before they finished their List! 

Do you see the guy in the tree?
This looked fun!


So...I got busy and worked hard.  But 5:30 came and they got their trucks all packed up and I was still working on the laundry and vacuuming.   They won.  They finished their list before me.  But, I didn't let that stop me. 

  

I poured myself a glass a wine and kept at it.  Vacuum in one hand and glass of wine in the other.  Seriously.  I'm not kidding.  By 7:45  I had all of my hard jobs finished with the exception of cleaning my bathroom.  All that is left is stuff that I can finish by the end of the week.  And, if Friday afternoon comes and my list from yesterday is complete, I'll feel like it was a very successful and productive week!!!

4 comments:

Unknown said...

I LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU WERE COMPETING WITH THE TREE SURGEONS! Congrats on getting it all done, that was quite a list!

Sft x

~Carla~ said...

Wow... Well done! That was quite a list, I'd have had a bottle in my hand, never mind a glass!! ;)

Sharon said...

great pics...I was wondering how you survived your HUGE list! :)!

Family Balance Sheet said...

maybe that's what I'm doing wrong. My entire house is a mess and needs cleaned up, but there is no wine in the house. Love it!