My husband trusts me – especially if I’m at home…. sitting down…. doing something like balancing the checkbook. Add motion to the equation and he starts to get concerned. He has requested I not go out riding my bike by myself. He doesn’t want me to go knee boarding, even though the rest of the […]
Helpless Female Gets Lost in the Bedroom
We’ve lived in this house for nearly 18 years. I am a stay at home mom, who most of the time has been supervising at least seven children throughout it’s 3400 square feet of rooms and hallways. It is familiar territory. Sure, we’ve altered it slightly a couple of times. Once we remodeled the kitchen, which […]
Helpless Female Rents Chainsaw
It appears that a certain large home improvement store will rent a chainsaw to nearly anyone. That is to say, they rented one to me. The first fellow who helped me had the breezy cheerful attitude of a man handing out candy to children… with no thought of the consequences. The second man, surveyed me […]
Helpless Female Works on Transforming Chicken Coop into Anti-Fox Chicken Bunker
I had never seen a live wild fox up close until last week. Now I am intimate enemies with it. I was caught off guard and felt all the helplessness of seeing it show up in broad daylight and kill chickens while I was a few feet away in the house. So, we moved the […]
Helpless Female Faces Sprinkler Connectors Aisle
Have you ever been to shop for connectors and joints for sprinklers? There’s this whole aisle of little white and grey pieces, with various sizes of threads, attachment points, and bends. There are tiny little labels under each box that give the the dimensions, which is fairly useless for me because I can’t seem to […]