One person found this funny: Misadventures in chore doing

I cut the lawn. The entire thing. After my three mile walk this morning I now have 19,217 steps. Can that be right? Nearly eight miles? Five miles of walking back and forth pushing a mower up and down hills and around bushes.

I could be wrong, but should G’s mom be doing this ? I understand that it gives her a sense of accomplishment and she likes doing it I know she takes breaks and it usually takes her the full day and that there is a lever that rolls it along. I still had to push it around all the bushes and up the hills. It took me most of two hours and I was moving pretty fast.

You never see this in California. Eighty-five year old women mowing a half ace of lawn. Here it’s pretty common. The neighbor takes a chair and rests after each row.

I’ve been working on mastering chores. If I can prove that I can do these things, I’ll be allowed to keep doing them. I’ve been doing a great job with the laundry. That is until today.

Gs mom gave me a bundle of sheets all wrapped in a sweat shirt. I tossed it in the washer, rearranged everything to balance the load. Turned it on and when I came back and changed the load to the dryer, the TV remote fell onto the ground.

I started the conversation with G. “I have to tell you something”. “ Great”, he was going to the store so invited me along.

When I explained what happened, that I had inadvertently washed the remote. His mom had wrapped it in with the sheets without knowing it. After swearing him to secrecy, (he might still rat me out) he laughed. I needed a plan. I needed him to be a partner. We devised a plan. Oh man, I can’t believe this happened. Will it still work? Can a washed remote still turn on the TV? Yikes! I guess we will find out tonight😬😬😬

The TV remote STILL WORKS!!!

Now the key fob has gone missing…