12-09-2010, 07:06 PM
Joe Fryfry -
I was sitting here contemplating your situation. Yeah, I know, it's easy for me because I'm retired and I have lots of time.
But it wasn't always that way. I too, had a job that demanded a lot from me timewise. But I had (have) a daughter. She was under six back then. If I needed leaves gathered to "make some scenery stuff for the railroad," if I asked her to gather some for me in a bag, she would have done it. She's 26 now, and if I asked her, she would go on to her college campus and gather a bag full of leaves for Dad.
Now, getting her mother to bake them and pulverize them in the blender ... that request would have been a far different story, one that would have resulted in laughter, followed by a firm, NO!" I would have had to do that myself while the two of them were at the Mall. But the baking can be done when you are doing something else, the blending doesn't take any more that ten minutes, the washing, drying and putting away the blender doesn't take even fifteen minutes!
Ask your son to gather leaves ... he'll probably think it's a kinky request, but be a good son and do it for you anyway. After that, you're almost home free!
I was sitting here contemplating your situation. Yeah, I know, it's easy for me because I'm retired and I have lots of time.
But it wasn't always that way. I too, had a job that demanded a lot from me timewise. But I had (have) a daughter. She was under six back then. If I needed leaves gathered to "make some scenery stuff for the railroad," if I asked her to gather some for me in a bag, she would have done it. She's 26 now, and if I asked her, she would go on to her college campus and gather a bag full of leaves for Dad.
Now, getting her mother to bake them and pulverize them in the blender ... that request would have been a far different story, one that would have resulted in laughter, followed by a firm, NO!" I would have had to do that myself while the two of them were at the Mall. But the baking can be done when you are doing something else, the blending doesn't take any more that ten minutes, the washing, drying and putting away the blender doesn't take even fifteen minutes!
Ask your son to gather leaves ... he'll probably think it's a kinky request, but be a good son and do it for you anyway. After that, you're almost home free!
EDIT: I just realized as I was re-reading this thread, that I spelled your name wrong ... sorry ... corrected!
And, you know ... it never occurred to me that you might have a very, very, very young son!
And, you know ... it never occurred to me that you might have a very, very, very young son!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln