Traveling Ph.D.

Dear Husband, i.e., The Coach:

Here is your summer “Honey-Do” List, in order of importance:

1. Order replacement parts for the pool. It’s hot out there!
2. Cut the rest of the ivy off the front porch.
3. Chop up the tree branches in the backyard.
4. Dust all the ceiling fans, THEN mop the floors. The landing needs a good scrub.
5. Clean the cat food out of the drain in the downstairs bathroom sink (don’t ask).
6. Hopefully, by this point we can set up the pool. And, build some pool stairs?
7. Replace the back stairs so we don’t break our necks.
8. Fix the fence (new post on the street side!)
9. Replace the kitchen floor (after vacation when fridge is empty).
10. Call Sears and schedule annual fridge/stove maintenance.
11. Call Schneider for A/C annual checkup (after vacation when we get paid).
12. Rebuild the “shutters” on the front window.
13. Paint all lower windows and trim.
14. Clean basement and put in the insulation I bought three (???) years ago.
15. Get another quote for the gutters (after I get second summer paycheck).

By fall break, we should be able to move on to:

1. Fix bathroom wall (after the gutters are done).
2. Put in new toilet in upstairs bathroom.
3. Put in new sink in downstairs bathroom (to make more room for litter box).
4. Figure out how to fix leak in downstairs shower drain.

And by spring break:

1. Paint the walls in the downstairs landing.
2. Get the landing floor really, really clean (or replace it, bah!).
3. Start working on build-in bookshelves for the landing.

When that’s all done, we can discuss the build-in bookshelves in the dining room.

Ambitious, I know, but seeing how *nothing* got done last summer, the list has grown and some of the issues — like those damned stairs — have gotten worse. And, 0bviously, I will help you with some of these things when I am not working on my book manuscript. I can paint the low-stuff. I can paint the landing. I can even help clean the basement.I will not, however, go crawling back into the potentially rat-infested ivy. That one’s on you — and maybe the Russells too.

Love,
The Traveling Ph.D.

P.S. Other minor stuff might also come up, like hanging some new curtain rods in the living room, or putting up a new mailbox, or putting in a new kitchen fan. But, these are all dependent on low gas prices.

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