dahJah!

[WitchyOoman]

I am sure thats not the way mr witchy feels. U will continue to be the great companion. U doing a hell of alot a tings today fi smaddy weh sick so big ups to u.
Wat oonuh need now is to go away someweh warm. I hear jamaica is nice this time of the year. Lol

yuh dont sey, man? dwl



this mroning, my girlfrend and I raked 75% of my backyard and used the leaf blower. Its suppose to rain tomorrow so Wednesdey we can finsh the backyard and do my front yard (and the side of my house).
We put out 40 bags of leaves! Plus all of the tree limbs that came down in Sandy - the storm.

I collected all of the houeshold garbage/trash and put it out to the crub also, for collection tommorrow.

i did all of the laundry. Mondays are Laundry Days. Five loads of laundry!

I vacuumed the bedroom and the upstairs (2nd floor) hall, and the front hall, and the stairs.

tonight I cookeed for supper:
first course - sliced tomatoes sprinkled with salt, a pinch of sugar, lemon zest, homegrown oregano, homegrown marjoram, and garlic
second course - beef stew w/ carrots, potatoes, corn, green beans, sweet peppers, celery and seasoned w/ Sarawak white "pepper", Tellicherry black peppers, cassia, ginger, nutmeg
side dish - zucchini sauteed in butter and avocado oil, and seasoned w/ salt, orange zest, homegrown tarragon, homegrown chives, shallots, garlic, Tellicherry black peppers
third course - pumpkin pie w/ hand-whipped sweetened cream; rum raisin prune fig bread pudding w/ hand-whipped sweetened cream


I have to work hardr or i may find myself useless and expendable. Better to kill myself with wrok than to be found wanting and expendable, nuh true? I'd ratheer be dead than no longer wantd by my husband/. So tmomorrow I need to owrk harder and get more done. Didnt work hard enough today. Didn't get enouhg done. *crying again*

[WitchyOoman]

See the tree limbs and all of the bags. OMG!

[WitchyOoman]

the back yard (in front of the garage) and the outback (behind the garage)

[WitchyOoman]

bhind the garage and behind the huose - we did about 75% of the Fall Clean-Up in the back... we still need to finish it and do the front yard. And all of the roof gutters. THANK GOD FOR MY BEST FRIEND, HER HUSBAND, HIS BROTHER, NAD HER BROTHER - alnd all of their help this year. I normmally do all of this work myself.

If i cant keep and maintainn our home then i'm worthless to mr witchy. absolutely worthless. (still crying)

[WitchyOoman]

Yes, we have 40-ft ladder. yes, i go up it and do my own roof gutters. yeah, that's a 35-degree pitch roof, yep. scary, too! but i conquerd that fear 20 yrears ago. normally i do it by myslef. Not this year I cant/.
Goddammit! I'm so useless now! I cant even be a normal useful good homemaker anyomore. *crying(*

[missus_vegas]

Kissteeth ok madame watever u say. U must know.

[Emperah]

[missus_vegas]

den a wah sweet yuh so? is it how she a wuk out harself and a chat say she useless or is it bcus u know many young strong ooman weh kill dem dead u nah ketch dem a do dem deh breed a ole wukk deh inna one week much less day

[WitchyOoman]

den a wah sweet yuh so? is it how she a wuk out harself and a chat say she useless or is it bcus u know many young strong ooman weh kill dem dead u nah ketch dem a do dem deh breed a ole wukk deh inna one week much less day

i've alway kept my house by myslef, withuott help. in my 30s (the '90s), in my 40s (the first decade of the 2000s). now i'm 51 and my broken spine makes trouble for me, and now this stroke makes more trouble for me. if i can't work at h ome, and i cant work outside my home, what good am i to anyone? getting old really sux!

i cant help how the younger genreation is too lazy these days.

what'm'i gonna do????/

[missus_vegas]

Mi **** so u spine bruk to an u a climb ledda.
Neways witchy the 90s and 2000s are over tell mr fi hire somee help for the real physical stuff an u do cooking laundry and light housework. Get wid di times and tap type fawt a mi yeye.

[WitchyOoman]

Mi **** so u spine bruk to an u a climb ledda.
Neways witchy the 90s and 2000s are over tell mr fi hire somee help for the real physical stuff an u do cooking laundry and light housework. Get wid di times and tap type fawt a mi yeye.

@ yuh, ma'am

I'm not stuck in the '90s an 2000s. I'm stuck in the 1940s... Rosie the Riveter. I can do it! No men about so I'll do it and I can do it... and I did it, hallelujah! My house was built in 1941 and most of it is original - wiring, plumbing, flooring, plasterwork, etc. I have a 1939 telephone in my kitchen that *I* rewired to make work with modern dial tone and touch tone. And I added a small ringer box to it that I hid inside the phone box in back so it wouldn't show... I have a 1938 telephone in the front hall that I did didthe same with.I have 1940s phones upstairs, too. I have original 19401 toilets, sinks, tubs, all throughout the house, including the double wash tubs/sinks in the cellar... only one toilet (mine) was replaced, by necessity, last year. Original windows and doors -a ll. No modern energy saving windows... I only wish. Insulating drapery from the late 1940s that stillworks great, though... Plantation shutters in the great bay windows. Half shutters on other windows. Huge solid oaken doors and oaken floors. oak stairs, too. Everything about this house - and my life - smacks of 1940s housewife's life. Everything! So yes, I go up ladders to my roofs and such. yes, I clean out my own fireplaces, and my own chimneys. Yes, I do my own gardening - vegetable gardening, that is. No frippery flowers, all food for me! I do plumbing, I do electric work, I do roof shingling, i do plaster work on the walls, I do basic carpentry work on the wooden clapboards, I do it all. I've learned all about these things. And no one beats me in laundry stain removal knowledge - NO ONE!! Not even my local dry cleaners... They ask ME, sometimes, for hints. I clean and oil stainless steel (my kitchen sink is one huge stainless steel sink)! I service my own gas stove (6 stovetop burners, 2 ovens, 2 broilers) - it's a 1941 Universal...there's one JUST LIKE mine in Disney World, in the 1950s T.V. cafe. but theirs is non-working, just for display; MINE works daily!

You want a time-travel trip back to the 1940s? Come visit me... that's all youneed to do. Step into my house and pass the day with me. Wash the laundry with me. let the dog in and out and in and out and in andout and back in again a hundred times a day. SHoo the cats off of the ironing. Cook on my old beloved Universal stove. My kitchen, itself, is one helluva TRIP!! ..... The phone rings sooo differently than modern chirpy phones... it's an old-fashioned bell ringer! So's my door bell - a real bell that goes DING DONG for the front door, and DING for the back door. Hear the kids from the junior high and the high school 'round the corner... hear the wonderful marching band rehearse as they march on by... GO ORANGE TORNADOES!! WOOT!! Wave your apron at them as they march by... they love it! :-D While you're out front, in the garden, pick some fruits and veggies and herbs, use your apron to hold it all and bring it inside... walk thru the front hall, thru the butler's kitchen (no butler - alas) and into the kitchen with it all... Gotta start supper late in the afternoon... I cook from scratch - no frozen crap in MY house! Good healthy food here. You can sit down with a cup of hot coffee or tea or whatever before Himself gets home from work... everything'll be done and ready before he gets home, and we can rest, put our feet up and watch the news on T.V. for half an hour... before we have to put the damn dog out again... and feed the feral cats... and feed our indor cats... Thank the good Lord we haven't got children to take care of also... When would we have time to do that, too? OMG! And this wasn't a busy day, either! No politics, no errands, no shopping, etc. We didn't even have any visitors today. It was quiet! sigh

[Magician]

So yes, I go up ladders to my roofs and such. yes, I clean out my own fireplaces, and my own chimneys. Yes, I do my own gardening - vegetable gardening, that is. No frippery flowers, all food for me! I do plumbing, I do electric work, I do roof shingling, i do plaster work on the walls, I do basic carpentry work on the wooden clapboards, I do it all.

Need a day labourer for some roofing work at my parents yard.
Shout me.

[missus_vegas]

bway withcy u wouldnt even mek the trades man dem eat a food