6/8/26

Work is a lot. I knew it would be. I wish our software doesn’t break every day. Some day…..maybe?

Moe was bugging me to go out and sunbathe at about 7:15 am this morning. He was out the majority of the day. I took him for a lap around the field. He jumped in the pond again. He also got a hose bath again. He will now be put on a leash prior to re-entering the yard. Dumb dog! He is very clean!

Paul was pissed because the did some weed whacking in an area where there is poison ivy. His allergy is pretty sensitive. He saw that it looked like poison ivy, but still did weed whacking sending the poisoning to aerosol form.  He then asked questions. He didn’t like the answer. He even tried to tell me I was wrong and that it wasn’t poison ivy. 

Any amount of denial won’t prevent someone from poison ivy onset.

He had choice and colorful words after I confirmed that it in fact was poison ivy. He immediately showered and foreshadowed that his eyes would be swollen shut in the morning.

Paul was mad because I knew about the poison ivy and didn’t tell him. That is actually false as we had a conversation last week about it. He doesn’t recall that conversation. I accused him of not listening to his wife (which bad things happen)….and he said I should have been more pro-active with making a big sign alerting him. 

I explored the logistics of the sign. I asked him if the sign should be posted in the house or in the general vicinity of the area where the poison ivy is?

He thought I was CRAZY! “Duh….in the area of where the poison ivy is!”

I pointed out “if I posted the sign in the house that there was poison ivy by the tree out back”, he wouldn’t even need to get near it!

“How is the general public going to see a sign in our house?” He asked. Ok! This is getting a bit ridiculous! 

“How many people of the general public are you expecting in our back yard?” I asked

“Well let’s forget the sign because I already know about it.

I told him we needed to hire goats. He didn’t care for that idea. He said it was mean to make Goats eat poison ivy. “Why is it mean? They aren’t allergic to it.” I pointed out.

What a silly conversation. We left it as I have poison ivy already….he feels like he will have it by morning. He is choosing not to get rid of it with goats or round up. I have helped as much as I can. He doesn’t want solutions, just to bitch about it.

Having these silly ideas with a wife that is perimenopausal is dangerous. I might just include pieces of poison ivy in the next salad I serve him. Ha! He is too valuable to do that to…..even after this annoying interaction, he really is more valuable alive than dead! Plus he laughs at my jokes sometimes. But don’t tell him I said that. I don’t want his ego to inflate!