Hey all
My wife and I live on a good sized acreage. As anyone that lives on a property like this knows they require lots of maintenance and that requires hired work or owning the equipment to maintain. I am thee later of the two.
This story or rant involves my yard vacuum but has been other equipment that I own.
I have a JD mower with a lawn vacuum that makes raking a thing of the past. I have always took care of my mother in laws yard. She passed early this year and my sister in law purchased her house. Well my wife ( wanting constant approval ) volunteered my vacuum and my time. Not a huge deal but I know what my wife is wanting to achieve by doing this and me knowing she is not going to get it, I went along with it. Two hours of me blowing the leaves from bushes and under the deck with my wife running the mower we finish and the yard looks great. To me that was the end of it, but about 830 the wife is pretty quiet and I ask whats bugging her and she says I cant believe that my sister has not called and thanked us for doing her yard. I bit my tongue but I was not expecting a thank you or even an acknowledgement because she has never thanked us for anything we had done in the past. Gutter cleaning, power washing her house and decks, or the countless times we included her on our nights out after her husband died. None of this was done expecting a reward or anything because family takes care of family but how hard is it to say thank you.
I think from now on my equipment and my time is for people that appreciate it. I just feel really bad for my wife she takes this stuff really bad.
My wife and I live on a good sized acreage. As anyone that lives on a property like this knows they require lots of maintenance and that requires hired work or owning the equipment to maintain. I am thee later of the two.
This story or rant involves my yard vacuum but has been other equipment that I own.
I have a JD mower with a lawn vacuum that makes raking a thing of the past. I have always took care of my mother in laws yard. She passed early this year and my sister in law purchased her house. Well my wife ( wanting constant approval ) volunteered my vacuum and my time. Not a huge deal but I know what my wife is wanting to achieve by doing this and me knowing she is not going to get it, I went along with it. Two hours of me blowing the leaves from bushes and under the deck with my wife running the mower we finish and the yard looks great. To me that was the end of it, but about 830 the wife is pretty quiet and I ask whats bugging her and she says I cant believe that my sister has not called and thanked us for doing her yard. I bit my tongue but I was not expecting a thank you or even an acknowledgement because she has never thanked us for anything we had done in the past. Gutter cleaning, power washing her house and decks, or the countless times we included her on our nights out after her husband died. None of this was done expecting a reward or anything because family takes care of family but how hard is it to say thank you.
I think from now on my equipment and my time is for people that appreciate it. I just feel really bad for my wife she takes this stuff really bad.
