I can't keep up anymore. My back won't let me do all I once did. My husband is refusing to spend his weekends doing brugs. I have over 300 seedlings sitting all over my house and yard, all refusing to take care of themselves. They all need to go into the ground in the next 2 months. So............................ I have hired a 16 year mini hunk to do all my digging and planting!!! FREEDOM!!! So now I can get some more seeds going! LOL
Is he going to "Water" too Kell?
Deb, I may rent him out for Susie's pool RU. LOL He will work Saturdays.
WTG. You need it, owe it to yourself!
I have a cleaning lady, my big deal in life. Gives me more time with my hobbies.
I'm jealous of both of you! Kell, please keep in mind I get the POOL BOY first. I know there is a thread here about me needing a pool boy LOL... Gloria you have a cleaning lady, we need to talk. It's time I had one too. I need some tips.
I need a gardener and house keeper. LOL
I have a l4 year old, I'm fixing to put to work LOL he's not happy about it, and If I offer to pay him he'll never shut up about what cha gonna pay me mom LOL. But If I tell him i'll pay him he'll work harder LOL. I have alot of plants to go into the ground too, but I don't know if I want to put the brugs in the ground just to have to take them back out again in the fall. that's just way too much work. Your lucky to be in zone 9 Kell
kathy
OMG I can't stand it... he's good-looking too?
Kell, just pretend you're not paying him, and you'll enjoy him (uh, I mean his work) that much more.
I'm sounding delusional now, aren't I?
Could be jealousy talking. LOL
Ada, good for you!...when people ask if I have a dishwasher, I answer, Yes, me!
Kathy, my sons are only a few years away from hard labor, and you can bet I don't miss a chance to remind them either!
Jackie
Well heck, get a drink and a chair and enjoy the view if he is a hunk. RELAX and enjoy. lol
Good for you Kell.
No sense in overdoing yourself and hurting your back.
You know those type of injuries take a lot longer to heal with us getting older...LOL
I make fun of myself from year to year because it's so simple to kneel down and weed. The trouble comes when you try and get back up! It seems to take longer and longer as the years fly by.
kell has a 'HUNK' whew fanning myself, how can she possibly work with Brugs when a Hunk is right beside her.
Kell I am with Gerris, lots of room in my yard for Brugs,maybe I can even find a 'HUNK' that way LOL
Kell good for you and good luck. I have a fellow, not a hunk, who has worked for me for more than 15 years when he had time and I had the money. He does the hard heavy work and I try ti do the more fun type, like planting seeds, transplanting and planting smaller plants out in the garden. Maybe in time that will be the same for you. Donna
LOL. I have the same trouble Kin, getting up is so hard to do! I want to know why it gets like that. I get down there and then I can't remember how I used to bounce back up. I just do not have the mechanics of it anymore.
Gee Gerris, have I dated myself? LOL. He is MINI hunk! Too young!
Kathh and Jackie, not to burst your balloon, but do not count on your boys. Mine was a total garden failure. Still is. He would take so many drink and bathroom breaks I would end up doing it all myself. Even now he is like that.
During his Christmas vacation he came home, I told him to give me a couple of hours of digging holes as my present. Well, it is February and all my bareroot roses are still not planted and he is long gone!
oh- could you ask him if he wants to come to ft. lauderdale for spring break?
free hotel here in the house in exchange for garden work! My own personal 17 year old looks at me like I'm insane when I ask him to help!
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BTW---Good luck! And happy leisure!
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I've thought of finding a 16 year old helper myself. Alot of kids come around asking to mow lawns, rake leaves, shovel snow, etc....... Maybe I should ask then. They work for cheap!
I just got my l4 year old to dig about 25 holes for daylilies, I felt sorry for him and told him he could quit, I have about 25 more to go and lots of other things that need to go into the ground, I never got all the things into the ground this fall because of that heartattack and by pass surgery. I told him I'd pay him 5.00 for each row, LOL he griped alot so he was only worth 5.00 >LOL
I am impressed. My kid would never have lasted for 25 holes. He sounds like a keeper, gripes and all! Sorry to hear about your health. I hope you are much improved now.
You guys are so funny! How come these kids are all alike? Is it in the air, the water, maybe, just maybe, too much Gameboys etc??? How come they have to be paid for everything? How about putting a meter on the refrigerator (coke machine)?
And Joseph, I hear you laughing, but not saying anything about your help. Maybe you are the hunk these ladies are looking for. Do you do windows? That is the equivilant of digging holes. Yes, I remember your offer of a solution to their problems. You dig holes but only in your own yard. LOL
Unfortunatley I live 15 miles from civilization. If I even ask someone to plow my driveway they think they will either get a nose bleed, or need an oxygen tank to come to my place. It isn't altitude. You would think they had a "house arrest" bracelet that only lets them out into their own yard. What do you think my chances are of even getting a non-hunk to come here for any price? They are the reason I cannot get connected to my server.
Jeanette
Gerris, to me a guy is still a HUNK if he has the qualifications. LOL
16 is too young for me. I need a 36 year old hunk! LOL Young enough to dig too!
Oh my, I am already fantasizing a hunk to look at and get the work done too how wonderful and I think we all are having fun imagining.
My philosophy is to train them while they are still young. Pre-teen years comes to mind. While they are still young, healthy, willing to work hard and eager enough to want to earn some extra "pocket change". However, you have to train them well, so that they don't wander off! Once they hit those high school years, they have their minds on which college they want to get accepted to, whom to take to the junior/senior prom or which car to buy. Plus, if they play sports or are in marching band, they definitely will be commited during the Spring & Fall growing seasons! Not to worry though, they usually come back for a good home cooked meal, clean sheets and a big hug & kiss from their adoring parents, grand-parents, aunts & uncles! :~)
Hmmmmmmmm a yard Hunk and a cleaning lady. What''s a body got to do to get them lol. Sure could use both.
It would sure hepl out wouldn't Donna. LOL
How about a robot, you don't have to feed, pay or listen to them, just give them a command. If we are going to dream or fantasize, lets do it in a big way. At my age who cares what they look like as long as the work gets done.
But now if they can make a robot to resemble a hunk, that wouldn't bother me a bit.
Linda
You got that right! WTG.
I'd love to get a cheap yard man for all the work I have to be done around here. I want one I can tell what to do and then walk away. When I come back later, I want the work done like I explained. My guy does a pretty good job, so maybe I better keep him and pay the price.
Over the years, I've had my best luck with all sorts of help, office, children, yard, house, warehouse, farm, etc, by figuring out what the individual does and likes best, and try to work around the high quality jobs and, with the gardening, I try to work on the other jobs myself. I hate paying for half done work, and I've never found anyone that could please me 100%, but I'm still looking, lol!! Also, if I have a big job, I attempt to have it all planned out and arranged, with all the stuff required being out and ready to go. If it's a really big job, I attempt to make the next work day easier. And, I stay with and work with the help and I never ask anyone to do something I wouldn't do myself. I have new help which I hired while my daddy was here, and I never had the chance to train the new guy, which makes it easy for a worker to develop poor and untidy work habits. Backing up and correcting is much more difficult than teaching the worker from the get go but we are getting there. Also, IMO, it's very important to know what you want the worker to do and explain it correctly. For instance - I have a very large L shaped, covered porch around my big house. When I was restoring the house, we stored lots of stuff under the porch, including, rugs, furniture, faux plants, lamps, you get the drift. The stuff was there for quite a while, and I was doing much of the work myself, so, from time to time, I'd tell the guy that worked for me to check on the stuff on the porch and see that everything was okay, and each time he reported, yes, the stuff is fine. You can imagine my surprise when I went to the porch to bring in my four, very large faux trees and the bottoms of all four baskets were rotted out. My helper had been faithfully watering them all the while they were under the covered porch, knowing that they would receive no rain. Whew. Who knew??!!
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kell, i love it: "mini hunk" LOL
Sherry, you might want to re-think your theory of not asking anyone to do something you wouldn't do yourself. I am/was the same way. Then when I had a bad surgery and couldn't do a lot of the stuff, I was in a mess. Because I did not know how to ask/tell people to do things.
Not good. I don't know how old you are, but I think it would behoove you to take some management training with that in mind. Mind you it should be geared to that. I had tons of management training but none of it came close to that particular type of management. I hate to say it but I think it might be that "female" thing.
Jeanette
Jeanette
Hahahaha, goodness, Jeanette, maybe you have the wrong girl?! I have no idea what might have prompted you to write your post. Is it possible that you think I might have wasted my career away the past 30+ years as the office manager/case coordinator/paralegal, for the same legal firm, lol? Silly me, all this time, I thought I was, at least, reasonably successful!! What in the world do you mean by, it might be that 'female' thing - what female thing?? I'm 62. How old are you??
Ya'll are cracking me up!
Sherry,
I'm 65. and Maybe you ought to go back and read your post prior to mine. I didn't say you weren't successful. And I consider myself successful when I was working.
Jeanette
Sherry, I understand where both of you were coming from. I think you sound like a very good manger to me and just wish more managers tried to acentuate the positive.
Jeanette, by "Not doing anything I wouldn't do", I think Sherry meant she wouldn't ask some one to put themselves in any kind of peril she wasn't willing to risk for herself.
I'm a female construction worker and I have been asked by male bosses to do jobs they would never in their best days been able to do themselves. It really irks them when they come back and find it's done. Te,He.He
I also have someone I ask to do all the heavy lifting in the garden. I had him also plant a few things in the garden here and there.
When I went to NC last month and he came by daily to check on my disabled roomie, he was bored, and DUG UP AND REPLANTED a huge area of my garden I had so carefully planted last year.
He had pulled all the dwarf gardenas from their carefully chosen random spots and planted them in an entirely un-wanted straight line on the far side of my front drive, put my burgandy varigated ajuga ground cover all sorts of places, even pots. Moved my 3 Hawaiian snowbushes 3 feet. Well, if they don't survive, I can plant Brugs where they are NOW. They are the only thing I didn't make him put back.
I have now made myself clear and told him if he wants to move a plant out side, there is a fifty year old live oak I'd like about 4 feet east of where it is now.
Sidney,58
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Well Sidney, you may be right. I sure didn't mean to pull Sherry's chain. Something obviously a sore spot.
And Sidney, careful what you wish for. You may get that Oak tree 4 feet to the East. LOL
Have a good day both of you. Jeanette
Gosh, Jeanette, I regret my point wasn't clear to you and I'm grateful that Sidney understood. Thank you, Sidney! Next time, I'll try harder next time to make my point clear, okee dokey??
