Complaint of the day

We are on a mandatory irrigation water schedule ( 3 days a week -no more than 20 minutes). There is a schedule chart based on the last number of your street address. My lawn is suffering yet every morning on our walk we see the same people in the surrounding neighborhood watering every morning. The irrigation district has to actually "see" the water on before sending a letter to educate the homeowner. I'm so tempted to write a letter and suggest they have someone drive the streets I walk between 7-9 am.

This is irrigation water from the Yakima River and our district has “ junior” rights meaning agriculture gets 1st dibs. Snowfall was low last winter so less water.

I have two petty, first world problem complaints.
One is shoelaces. First of all, I do not have wide feet, but I feel like shoelaces are always too short, as in barely long enough to even tie. Also, those slippery, polyester shoelaces? HATE them. Maybe I walk weird or something, but they always come untied. I always have to tie them in double knots, but they are often too short for that. I have a couple of pairs of sneakers with plain old fashioned cotton shoelaces, and I don't have that problem with those.

My second vent is about stickers on things. Why in 2024, have companies not figured out how to make stickers that peel off more easily? And if they must be difficult to peel off, WHY oh WHY do they have to put them right smack on the front of the item?
Okay, my petty vents are over now.

Happy Birthday!

Well now that you’ve typed that out it’ll get worse. Or the algorithm understands you and it’ll go away. One or the other.

Once a week I treat myself to a breakfast sandwich on my way to work and my choice yesterday was McDonald's only because there wasn't a line! I ordered a Bacon and Egg McGriddle. Got to work open up my sandwich and there is cheese and bacon - no Egg!!!!

I'm breaking my once-a-week rule and going this morning to Starbucks to get the amazing Egg, Mozzarella and Pesto Sandwich I had last week to make up for yesterday!!

TGIF!

Having to do reauthorization for life saving meds. Been 6 months and time to fight again for dd's IgG medication and supplies. 🙄

I'm trying to fold laundry on my bed and various cats of the household keep jumping up trying to get scratches, messing up the piles in the process.

2 hours in, 7 phone calls and not resolved.

I. Hate. Privatized. Healthcare. And incompetent medical staff.

My next door neighbor (not to be confused with Round up spraying renters out back). The family moved in about a year ago, after our long term (30+ years) neighbor died.

They are actually not bad neighbors, but they have no concept of cleaning their area of the block. The sidewalk. The street in front of their house. 

They live on the corner, and so, yes, have twice the amount of sidewalk, curb gutter, etc. But damn, please make an effort. 

Our neighborhood has a lot of car traffic, a lot of foot traffic, and when the sanitation truck comes, they do not clean up spilled trash. All that to say that there is a lot of stray trash and litter.

Yesterday I could not take it anymore, because how freaking depressing is it to walk outside and feel like your street has turned into a slum.

So I took a lined trashcan and a shovel, donned two pairs of gloves, and cleaned it. Pulled weeds growing all over the cement. Trimmed down the saplings growing next to the utility pole. Shoveled out the decayed leaves, the weeds, and trash from the curb gutter area. Picked up a ton of litter, including a whole, unopened bag of raw chicken drumsticks that I could smell through the bag. 

Gah.

Neighbors: You have a fresh start. Please clean it from now on.

Stinging insects are my complaint for the day.

We've been battling carpenter bees for 2 full weeks now, and have finally evicted them, only to find that they had next door neighbors---hornets. So now we need to take down their living quarters today.

And while we're dealing with those, we keep seeing wasps around some brand new supports we just put up for a porch repair, as if they're considering starting a new home for themselves as well!

Finally yesterday, and I asked one of my kids to please work on a project involving an old milk can we had out in the yard, and when they tried to do what I asked, they found yellow jackets had a nest under the milk can.

We haven't had any issues with hives/nests the previous 2 summers, so apparently we're going to deal with every variety now.

I bought these and put them up near the usual places we've had nests in the past. They've been up since May and so far we haven't had any new nests or sightings.

Fake Wasp nests