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The Problem with a hose
Thu Jul 01 2004

I make poor assumptions, including the fact that my diary is so fascinating that anyone who stumbles across it will be compelled to read it from start to finish. By way of background, I live in an apartment. There are no water connections outside. There are no electrical outlets outside. There are only cherries outside. And pink pooping birds. Lots of pink pooping birds.

This is what needs to be done if I want a hose with water outside our apartment: 20 April 2003: My Weekend in Pictures *Graphics Intensive*. The set-up illustrated in this entry shows the hose going out the front door. The cherries are through the living room, out the back door.

Hosing off every day is simply out of the question. I like to shower, and would not be enthusiastic about the hose being a permanent fixture in my bathroom. The Socialist and I did discuss whether the hose is long enough to run down the stairs, through the living room and out the back door. The verdict is out, but he did agree to give it a try next time he sets up to wash his car.

I need more hungry pink pooping birds to deal with this problem. And then I need a major hurricane to pass through, to wash away the the results of the pink pooping birds repast.

18 Comments
  • From:
    Lilith (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 01 2004
    What a mess! Have you thought of a portable canope (sp)?
    While you're picking up that canope buy yourself a pretty little pill box to stash an extra pill or two in that will attach to your key chain.
    (if you can remember to put the pills in the box)
  • From:
    Sillyrabbit (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 01 2004
    That's an incredible amount of cherries! Loved the story about sweeping cherries in the rain. I had a funny image come into my head when I read it.
    I don't know which would be worse, a deck covered in cherries or a deck not covered in cherries but the mosquitos being so bad that you can't go out anyway. I think I'd personally go for the cherries because if I get one more mosquito bite I'm going to go postal!!!!
    Now that I'm done my little rant, I hope you're having a great day!!!
    Megan
  • From:
    AQuietEvening (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 01 2004
    And me...I'm sitting here thinking I'd get my bowl out and have me one giant cherry feast. Yummy!! But alas I have to recall that your cherries are my olives and then I'm annoyed right with you. Somehow I think the cherries are messier though. But still....those dang things are over $3 a pound here - on a good day.. and they are falling from the sky - on your patio no less....

    I think I might be jealous and that's before I even allow myself to imagine what rain looks like. I think it might've rained here once....a very long time ago. LOL!!

    ~QE
  • From:
    Yetzirah (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 01 2004

    Singin' in the cherry rain,
    Just singin' in the cherry rain.

    What a glorious feelin'
    I'm cherried again!


    Don't you have a hose?
  • From:
    Shay4l (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 01 2004
    It looks like you'll need to use a tarp next year to keep your patio from getting covered with bloody hailstones.
  • From:
    Yetzirah (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 01 2004
    Well, I couldn't forget, if I never knew....
    Haven't been reading here for a whole year yet!

    :-)

    I see your dilemma.

    Forget I mentioned it.

    Get the deck brush!

  • From:
    KiwiKimi (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 01 2004
    Good grief! You weren't exaggerating about the cherries!

    A tarp sounds a good idea. A portable waterblaster (they rent them out quite cheaply here) might be more fun, though.

    Could you put a bucket out and gather enough to make jam?
  • From:
    Sunni (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 02 2004
    Cherry Problem - have you tried hosing the deck off daily? It might work if you have a pressure nozzle on the hose. (I haven't actually TRIED this, just a thought :) ).

    Good luck!
  • From:
    Yetzirah (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 02 2004
    RYC:

    I DID plant some in planters and they are doing just fine. Need lots of sun.
  • From:
    Ichandra (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 02 2004
    that is hilarious about the cherry tree

    i always forget to carry my tea bags
    with me which isnt a big deal until i
    start going into the throws of my
    addiction anyway what i do i just leave
    tea bags where i know i will be going
    like in all my favourite jackets or my
    friends house etc
    you have probably thought of this
    but just in case
    have a nice day
    you probably thought of
  • From:
    GoingUnder20 (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 02 2004
    *~Salamander~*

    My mom takes her pills every morning, at almost the exact time every morning, I dont know how she does it, because even after I got pills for my strep I forgot sometimes and only took them maybe once a day instead of twice a day, not good on my behalf...I dont know how my mom does it.

    Ewwww pink poop, lots of pink poop. Yuck! I say go for the flat topped canopy, I think its your best option you got. As for cherry pies, I dont eat pies a lot, and least of all cherry. LoL

    Hope you get the poop and the cherries cleaned up somehow! Good luck!

    Love,Alaina
  • From:
    KiwiKimi (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 02 2004
    Oddly enough, I'd forgotten the hose hoo-hah (ha ha). I remember now. *Our* apartment block does have a hose set up in the carpark. I think it's for people who indulge in a mysterious activity I've heard of called "washing the car".

    You wouldn't need an exterior electrical outlet for a waterblaster, just a heavy-duty extension cord. Of course, since we have at least three of those, I'm assuming that ordinary people have at least one. You'd also need water available, though, or the effect would be somewhat disappointing.

    What you need is a flock of hungry but continent birds.
  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 02 2004
    you wrote:
    "Lots of pink pooping birds."

    Wow, you have pink birds that poop?
    ;^D
  • From:
    Lilith (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 02 2004
    Where the heck is George Washington when you need him.
  • From:
    Thubten (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 02 2004
    How about a layer of wet newspaper laid out on the patio in the morning, and picked up at night after work? Hoping it doesn't dry out and blow all over the complex during the day...
    love
    thubten
  • From:
    Viivi (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 02 2004
    I wonder.... would they notice, if you chopped down some of the trees?
  • From:
    Greensparkles (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 02 2004
    lol@"So I was driving to work this morning in my pink-poop covered car"

    Sorry, don't mean to laugh at your dilemmas....but your entry is funny*

    When does this cherry bombing end?

    How bout just keeping some pills in your purse?
    You have to take those pills for the rest of your life huh?
  • From:
    Kriss (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 02 2004
    Wow, a person who makes bird poop entertaining. THAT is tallent.