Mowing At Yallourn Nth

Went to Yallourn Nth and cut half the front lawn. It took
two and half hours! I went with Kirsten the first time,
on Tuesday 6/01/09. Turned out that was green waste day
and they had already emptied my side of the street, but by
the time they did the other side of the street at 10.15 a.m.
Kirsten had run the bin, (which was almost full!) over and
after they emptied it she bought it back again!

She had to bring the bin back from their farm as Nathan had
taken both my bins down there as he said they had too much
rubbish!

The man next door said he hoped I got quiet neighbours in, as
his wife works night shift three nights a week.

A lady came from the supermarket and said there was a worker
there who was interested in renting the house so she took my
mobile phone number to give to him. He rang on Sat the 17th
Jan to say he had another place!

She had not even walked away when another lady came up and
said she lived in one of the houses behind the house and she
wanted to know if I had any intention of selling the house
in the next three years as she wants to put two goats in the
paddock.

I told her it would be about five yeras before I sold so she
said she'd put fences in and keep the goats there. GOOD, it
will save money on getting the paddock slashed!

I can't believe the mess that Kath and Nathan left the house
in. Kathleen was always so fussy at home. There is a hole
in the bathroom floor about six inches wide by four foot
long! and dog shit all over the floor! They also have holes
in the toilet wall and a broken bathroom window which is
lying in pieces on the floor. The surround around the bath
is broken as Kirsten stood on it to wash the walls and being
a thin sheet of fibro of course it broke!

I took home enough grass to fill up my bin so I did not have
to cut my lawn.

The second time I went up I cut the side from the edge of the
front of the house to the beginning of the garage. I recut
the grass on the tall upper front side and did the other half
of that front side. I did not put the catcher on as the
grass was too tall.

The toilet bowl was so dirty that when I went up the third
time I took cleaner with me. I recut the short front side
and started cutting down the far side of the house and
around to the back yard another two hours and I was buggered!
and the bin was full so I put it out in the street and came
home.

Went up today 21/01/09 to bring the bin in which was suppose
to be emptied yesterday only to find they had only HALF
emptied it, which means it will take more work to get it
under control.

Donald and I both need to cut our lawns so I did not cut
anything especially as I had Keith with me, as he wanted
to have a look with a view to renting it but he took one
look at the bathroom and said he couldn't live with that
hole and mess! I don't blame him, but I didn't appreciate
the fact that he brought Spag with him and the dog peed on
the floor in the loung/kitchen, as if there was not
enough mess to clean up and Keith didn't even clean it up.
I had to soak it up with a newspaper that was lying in one
of the bedrooms!

On the way home we dropped in to see Donald who had taken
the day off because he had a sore back and we dropped off
the mower. It is looking sad another year and I will have
to buy a new one!