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Patio War: Part Deux
April 21, 2009 | 36 Comments
Part One HERE.
“If you want something said, ask a man…if you want something done, ask a woman.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
The battle lines are drawn. It’s Moi vs. Jai and the robins.
Last evening:
Moi: “Jai, I’ve removed the robin nest and washed the patio again. I’m not about to spend the next month avoiding that area and spending the week after that cleaning bird poop. Besides, the motion sensor on the light fixture had been turned sideways and covered with crud. It won’t detect any motion in the yard other than, perhaps, the robins’ bowel movements.”
I placed a statue of bald eagles on the patio table to scare the robins off that area.
Jai: “Oh, poor robins. They worked so hard to build that nest.”
(Note to self: He didn’t say, “Poor you. You worked so hard to clean that patio. Twice.”)
This morning, the motion sensor has been turned sideways again and there’s another nest in the making.
Jai: “Poor things. They work so hard.”
Moi: “Sure. If you want to keep that nest, please move the shoe rack under it. Also, please make sure to clean the wall and the lights after they are done. And please wash the patio.”
Jai: “Yeah, yeah, I’ll take care of it.”
An hour later:
Moi: “Remember, after the robins leave the nest, if the wall is messed up and the light does not work, you have a week to wash the wall, paint it and install a new motion sensor light. After that, I will call an electrician and a painter. I am not doing it.”
Jai: “Take the nest out. Or I’ll take it out later today. I never claimed I wanted it there.”
Moi: “If you didn’t want it, why didn’t you take it out yesterday? Or this morning?”
Jai: “I was planning to.”
I’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating:
“Men are like pumpkins. It seems like all the good ones are either taken or they’ve had everything scraped out of their heads with a spoon.”
- bee
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36 Comments
gorgeous photos!!
aarrgh.. why do men just love annoying us women?
Bee, you crack me up!
Bee, I am rolling down, I like the last quote! The first pic is excellent.
I love that first shot!
Cheers,
Rosa
I will probably plagiarize that last quote by using it constantly with my husband!
Hi hi i love it men ar elike pumpkins.
Yeah why does my hubby sounds exactly like jai.
We did new carpets in my daughters room and the last few cm, under the heating system is not done and i have been telling last few days to fix it, he has not done it till now ( yesterday i reminded him if he dosen’t do it today i will do myself and then don’t blame is it is not done properly) till now threats have not helped, still not done.
Very funny and you crack me up. After a good fight with the husband over the weekend, I ought to show him the pumpkin quote.
ROFL @ quote. But do you really really take off the nests ? Poor robins
lol… That’s funny.
Maybe he knew you’d clean it up if he waited a day or two?
LOL…men are like pumpkins….
NICE quotes ( and very true!) U hit the nail on the head Bee!
LOL! Love both the quotes! Nice pics.
We have the same situation with our garage. Husband likes the doors all open (it is already quite warm here in Cen Tx) but when he does that the house wrens come into the garage and build nests in all sorts of inappropriate places.
I nagged for him to keep the doors closed for 2 weeks and now have decided to drop it. I told him he will be the one doing any/all cleaning up after the birds. If he squawks I am determined to take the empty nest and put it inside his otherwise immaculate car. On the driver’s seat. I think that will end the discussion.
Men are useless, throw rocks at them! Or nests
Bee, I had a suggestion. I dunno how practical/easy it is. But was wondering if, in the Forums section, we could have something – a start or a bolded font to say a new response has been posted? I sometimes do not remember the number of responses I saw last time, except when it comes to my questions. Is this possible? So, its like a star at every topic where there is a new response or something like that?
i’m not sure if this software has that feature.
a star*
ROFL… But i would hate to take that nest off:-) inspite of poop & no motion sensor. The bald eagle is as useless it seems.
LOL……that’s hilarious. Dunno why men love the word LATER and dunno why the word later always means “never” when men say it. We need to get that word out of the dictionary. My man too is a procrastinator and for him the following saying is apt -never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together
LOL! Practicality wins every time. (or should)
Poor robins and poor Jai! The photos are heart warming! Even though there is a point on cleaning and setting things out my heart feels the robins should be let in
Other than your writings and snaps … those quotes are something!
Hmmm! My friend got rid of raccoons in her attic by dropping a rag dipped in ammonia. The momma scurried away with her babies as soon as she smelled that – predator urine, she thought. Maybe you could do something like that?
Or if you want, I can come there and sing:
Fly, robin, fly! Up, up to the sky!
I can guarantee they will never ever come back.
Haha.. it’s hillarious
he hee LOL!
ROFL @ men r like pumpkins
We have pigeons in our building, pigeon poop everywhere. On our walls, windows, corridor leading to the building… And as if that’s not enough, some neighbours periodically insist on adopting stray dogs and raising them in the common area of the building (not inside their own apartments, so they keep howling away in the night and making a mess, until someone else spirits them away), encourage monkeys (“Lord Hanuman has visited our home!”) even as they create havoc in other people’s houses and bees too!
Nice quotes..Esp the last one..Love the first pic!
Procrastination, thy name is man!
Lol….So all Men behave like my Hubby, i am thrilled to know that its just not me who gets an irritating LATER..LATER …reply for every request(Command) of mine
But hey Bee atleast he helps u in cooking,blogging,and cleaning home….mine never does that (not even on weekends)
Pics are nice and loved your rants…May God give some strength to Jai to bear all this (ur rants and comments from us)…lol
Well said! I love the pumpkin quote.
I’m laughing my head off. I’m sorry to say, there are so many good women and so few good men! (Jai does seem like a good guy overall though, better than most!)
Bee, Jai, this story reminded me of the blue heron … alias, SATAN, that came to visit our Koi pond each spring. Each winter the fishies would spawn and we’d find cute little babies galore, UNTIL….well, you know what happened. So…off to the hunting and fishing store we go, hubby and I, confident that we can take action into our own hands. No…no, not what you think…we weren’t buying a gun, or any weapon of sorts, but merely a decoy. Oh yeah… you know where I’m going with this. Same place you’ve been. Ugh-huh! Right.
So, a day later after installation of a rather LARGE heron decoy I catch sight of something like a 747 landing in my backyard. Well, we live close to DFW, but I hadn’t heard engine noise, so, yeah you know….landing on the tarmac, broad daylight, SATAN!
I screamed, ran to the door and the dad-gummed fella is attempting to get that decoy’s phone number and forwarding address.
I boxed that sucker up just real quick and got my $30.00 back, el pronto!!!
True story.
I feel your pain.
Our solution?
We forfeited our pond. Oh yeah! SATAN won that one. And the frustrating part, I still see him occasionally, his flight pattern remains the same. We just don’t have vittles for him anymore.
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