So I sit out on the porch hands aching, tired as hell, popping Asprin pondering life in these United States..

About 3 Weeks ago I did a rather large project, tearing out the front flower beds and building a retaining wall backfilled with Lavarock. Took a solid week, and wore me out, but hey the front of the house looks much neater and cleaner...

So of course a couple of days after I finish the 15 YO kid who's family is renting from my closest neighbor wanders up here to ask if by chance I was looking for somebody to do some work.. I tell him he was a day late but I would see what comes up..

A few days ago I get a new 10' pole saw and start limbing the trees up, which is honestly quite a bit of fun, right up until you have to load all of them onto the Tractor forks to go dump them I think to myself, well hell, kid looking for work and I have the boat getting ready to go back in the water this weekend it will need waxing before that happens. I ain't getting any younger, I could use a hand, the wife agrees, so I stop by to talk to him and his Mom.. We agree after school today he can come down and work for a bit, I will pay him $10 per hour cash.. At this point in time I am feeling pretty happy..

So this morning I go cut more limbs off the trees, and do just the maintenance on the boat, leaving the downed limbs for us to stack, and the boat for both of us to wax...

So comes 3:30 No kid, so I start busting out the boat, because the wife is very adamant about getting it in the water over the long weekend, she saved her pennies to get us a covered slip down at the Marina, so we can go out anytime we want without having to do the whole launch and recover thing

So I think back to when I was hustling lawn cutting jobs and shoveling snow for money at his age, and I can't remember ever not showing up, in fact I think Mom would have had a bit of a problem if I had left a neighbor hanging..

Needless to say I have finished most of the Boat except where you actually have to crawl underneath to wax the hull, and I left the tree limbs for later to stack and dump
I don't get it, the money is better then most places up here pay for real, and what kid wouldn't want to mess around with a Boat and a Tractor, that would have been way to much fun to pass up when I was that age

Any just some rambling thought from the front porch as I watch the Hummingbirds at the feeder right above my head