Let me preface this by saying I love my wife with all my heart. But it’s hunting season, and she keeps adding projects to my honey-do list. There should be some sort of marital rule that when hunting season starts, the only things that can be tagged onto to-do lists are drastic emergencies.
We got the enlarged dog run built just as the antelope season started, and that was OK. I try to avoid venturing out on opening day or opening weekend, so I wasn’t planning to go hunting, anyway. And that bigger kennel benefits my hunting dog, so I couldn’t complain.
But as soon as that project was completed, I was informed we needed to put a new gate in the back pasture. That would have been simple, except that it required a new gate post and a rebuilt corner support post. We haven’t even finished that yet, and now I have to get started building a wood shed.
This is starting to concern me a little bit, because I know we’re going to have to replace a yard hydrant before winter, too, and when I tackle a plumbing project, it always ends up taking about four times longer than I thought it would.
Heck, I consider myself a pretty competent carpenter, but even those projects tend to eat up a lot more time than they should. I’m hoping the wood shed can get done in a weekend, but it’ll probably take at least two. Maybe even a few weeknights, too. I don’t want to even think about how long that hydrant will drag out.
It all has the potential to put a horrible dent in my hunting plans. I should still get the chance for at least a day-trip antelope hunt, and hopefully I’ll be done with the honey-dos before the elk and deer rifle seasons start. But who knows what else will get added to the list? I better get crackin’.
