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A man’s job
I have done a man’s job today.
The work had to be done, I couldn’t escape.
In our back yard, we have a water-butt with a tap at the bottom.
But if the water-butt is on the ground, it is impossible to use it to fill a watering-can.
So I put it on a little ‘table’.
I put four poles of one meter long halfway into the ground and on top of that I put one square hardwood garden tile.
I shortened the rain-pipe by half a meter and put the water-butt on the ‘table’…
Easy enough!
Or is it?
I really hate this kind of work.
We had rented a large hammer to drive the poles into the ground.
It is difficult to use such heavy equipment. It felt like it weighed more than 20 pounds.
But it didn’t. I put it on the scale and it was ‘only’ 10 pounds.
Such tools scare me. I am glad the job is done now and no accident has happened.
Well, I did break a nail, but that was while carrying a bag of cement.
Yes, I will be casting concrete one of these days.
But that will be another story…
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