July 26th 2008 08:50 am
Living the high life again
Yesterday we got a dumpster delivered. It was very exciting. 
No, really it was, come back!
The guy came early, like I just got back from my walk early, and his truck was a wee bigger than I thought it would be. I got him to leave the extremely large container right where Ron told me to tell him to put it. He kind of had to wrangle the truck a bit.
And then? We noticed he had the lifter part of the truck caught on some overhead wires. Thankfully not connected to anything (I think) but wires nonetheless. So when he asked is he could borrow a shovel or stick or something to move the wires, well of course I said “OF COURSE!” and frantically looked around helplessly.
The guy and I had just finished saying to each other that neither one of us has any caffeine yet that morning either.
So that’s why I got to move the lever on the truck, see, because he was up under the back part that lifts, holding the wire up out of the way, and he couldn’t reach the levers on the side of the truck, so he showed me which one to pull to bring the level back down. All while he stood ther with it coming slowly towards him and both of us watching to make sure the wire got out of the way.
After that I was pretty much awake.
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Today after my morning walk, I wandered around to look at the dumpster (it has a door) and saw MRS gopher runnign under it. I say MRS gopher as babies have been spotted.
This weekend we’ll be tossing things in a dumpster again, making a ton of nose and pleasing the neighbours. (They love it when we work in the yard - really.)
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2 Responses to “Living the high life again”
Addison on 26 Jul 2008 at 8:54 am #
Technically, it’s a Groundhog
JoVE on 26 Jul 2008 at 7:34 pm #
That does sound cool. This whole thinking about buying land thing has me looking enviously at teeny tiny tractors (like the one Ron has). Mat thinks it’s hilarious.
and in relation to Addison’s comment, technically it’s amazing you didn’t put any swear words in the description of that animal. But maybe you haven’t put in a veg garden yet for her to help herself to.
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