ARRRRGH!

I’ve just come in from trying to weed whack around my veggie planters – a complete failure and now pooped from the effort.

I took one of our weed whackers and the long extension cord out to the side yard. I plugged in the cord at the back of the house, and then started to attach the other end to the whacker. It wouldn’t plug in. I’ve never had the problem before, so looked at things carefully and tried and tried, but it just wouldn’t fit. I took the cord back to the garage and found another one that was shorter, but had an end on it I thought should fit.

This one went easily into the plug in the back of the house, and also into the whacker! I turned it on and nothing happened. I checked both ends again – twice – and finally had things happy. I started the weed whacker and it was just chewing at the weeds – not really doing a good job – and was taking a LONG time. I thought about taking it and exchanging it for one of the others we have, but decided to tough it out.

My back really started talking to me when I was starting to try to weed whack on the back side of the long planter. THEN I found the cord was too short to go across the back. I was fuming, trying to rest my back, and THEN it started to sprinkle. THEN sprinkle harder…

I finally gave it up and brought the cord and the whacker back into the garage.

Tomorrow I’ll choose another weed whacker that will hopefully do a faster, better job, trying to make sure it’s got the whacking cord on it, ready to use, and trying to make sure the cord will plug in before taking it all the way out to the side of the house. :0(