Washing the outside—a lot

My father-in-law owns a couple of pressure washers and has recently been on a washing kick. He started with his brick garage, then went to his house and patio and is now trying to convince us that our siding needs washed. It’s all pretty funny, except I don’t really want him spraying down half our house because he’s not able to reach the top half—leaving the house to look uneven. Sometimes, though, he lets Mags help him a little and that’s actually kind of cute as she has to wear goggles and tries to get every little speck off the cement.

We do have a cement patio that I think could use some sprucing up, but I’m trying to convince Grump that we need to paint it a nice warm brown color. The bland color of cement just isn’t necessary anymore. If I can get him to agree to that then I won’t have to have my father-in-law over spraying the heck out of my cement. Unless, of course, he decides he wants to do the actual painting. That then would be a different story all together.

I wish my husband was more handy, though. Then I wouldn’t have to ask other family members for help with such things. The guy wants to someday own a farm and he can’t even mend our little fence around our yard. What kind of craziness is that? I have to do all the household repairs and most of the gardening. What would his job be on the farm? Milking a couple of cows? No doubt that would lose it’s novelty in no time and I’d be stuck taking care of the entire farm by myself—something I really don’t want to have to worry about. Just one reason among many I’m glad we’ll probably never own a farm. I don’t think I’d have the patience for all of that.

At any rate, my father-in-law has decided our house is grubby and he really wants to take the hose to it. I think I might actually just say “ok”. Why not? Yes, only half the house would get washed, but it’ll give the dude something to do with his toy and keep Grump out of my hair for a couple of hours. I’m sure my mother-in-law would be glad to look out her window and not see high-pressure water squirting everything on her property. And it’s free, so why not?

My family is just so very strange.