My financial controller and life gunnery sergeant, stays on my case about working outdoors in all this heat. She insists that we hire someone to do the lawn work, but I am stingy and truly believe that I should do all the things I used to do - if I can. My routine is to do the mowing about 5:00 p.m. because that is what I used to do when I had a job. She says I should mow early in the morning. So, I checked with my friend Parrish, who is also retired, and he mows during the same time of the day as I do. And, his wife complains about him too.
Well, guess what? She has decided that she will work on the flower beds. My plan of using a vegetation killer just didn’t work for her.
This is where the plot thickens. She decided to tackle one of the flower beds right in the middle of the hot sun, while I was watering in the back yard, in the shade. She called me on my cell to tell me to bring her some water. I found her sitting under a small tree and obviously over heated. I got her back inside to cool off.
I waited about five minutes and told her to get back outside and do the job. That didn’t happen.
Just wait until the next time when she tells me not to work outside in the heat.
PMO
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