Saturday, April 24, 2021

Whether You Have It Or You Don't

 UMULAN? It rained after a week of hot, sunny temperature. Hay naku Mulan! That's what it is. Sometimes, we need rainfall because if one week of hot days at the island you'll never know what you gonna get.

I noticed many trees showing its shoots of lime colored leaves. The neighbor's dogwood tree is in full bloom with its pretty flowers. The cherry blossoms bring that cheery disposition on everyone's vision no matter how pink they are. Lilacs, purple lilacs are evidently seen, azaleas, wisterias, tulips and daffodils they are spring flowers and they add life to the vibrant scenic view on the streets. Sorry,  cannot shoot photos of them. I can admire all those flowers only by what my eyes can see. 

There is so much to do at the front yard after the TN had plowed the top soil they added on the yard. However, it turned out that there are too much gravel on the soil. Pebbles, gravel, rocks and weeds of dandelions that need to be eradicated before the bermuda grass is put into place. Or a hydro-seeding would be the best option.

I asked Lorne if... what if I just plant sunflowers all over the front yard instead? Like you know an array of sunflowers at the front yard. OMG! I wonder what would happen or what could it lead to? 

Oh, forget about it.

 

We once lived in this townhouse complex that my husband managed for 22 years and 7 months. The landscaping is truly awesome. My hubby's the carpenter, the painter, gardener, landscape artist, the pressure washer guy, sometimes he also do the plumbing, roof shingles fixer, being the handyman for the company he works for has saved them lots of money. Extra works such as replacing bulbs and light fixtures, renovation, cleaning gutters, fixing synchronized water sprinkler, replacing hot water tank, and a lot more other fixing to do.

Why he needs to do such thing when he is the manager? Other managers just have to sit and call plumbers when there's a plumbing job to do. Or call a roofer to fix roof shingles blown away by storms and gusty winds. Know what? To call those blue collar job men for the kind of fixing will cost a company broke. lol. Not funny. Some of them are too busy to fix something and when you call them for emergency appointment you'll have to pay them just for arriving at the site without doing anything. You know what I mean? Sorry, but that's a turn off right?

We should have been rich with the kind of work he does for the company but NO. My hubby's a very honest man. Just the painting of houses, he could make lots of money but don't know what he is doing. Instead of  billing his customers the right amount of  what professional painter should be paid, he just billed them less and no profit for whatever business he had. I don't know, maybe he is a saint. Maybe he likes being poor because he was from a wealthy family before. Maybe he likes to experience such quality of life, the simple life and blend in with those people who are called the "have not."