This is my post for # freewriters Saturday hosted by @mariannewest
prompts
eczema
the wild
native food
wall art
first cup of coffee
awareness
My awareness of how much things cost is climbing and is going to drive me to not order anything else. I ordered new springs, U bolts, and hangers for my boat trailer. $170 plus a few dollars, I can't remember the exact amount.
A brake on my husband's truck was grinding every time he hit them. He went to the parts store and bought what he needed. $170 seems to be the magic number, that is what it cost him
We have not fished at all this week but I sold 300 dollars worth of areca palms, that 300 did not stay in our pockets for long. We might as well have thrown it into the wild.
The new hangers have two holes where the old one had one and of course, they would not match up. I wondered if I could make some sort of expensive wall art from it. My husband said all we need to do is drill a hole in it.
We do not have a sharp drill bit to drill through the hanger so we had to buy one which was another 20 dollars. I took it out of the package and it does not fit the drill, our drill is a 3/8 and the bit is for a 1/2inch drill. I go back to the hardware store and find out that they do not make a drill bit that big for a 3/8 drill. I feel like maybe I have eczema or something like it coming on, I am itching with anxiety when I get home and tell my husband this. The funny this is, we were at a thrift store yesterday and they had a 1/2 drill for 25 dollars and my husband told me that we would never use it.
He drilled a smaller hole in it and we found smaller bolts to fit. We bolted the hangers and put the leaf springs on it but it would not line up with the axle, the hole he drilled is maybe a 1/4 inch off.
I threw all of the tools into the wagon and pulled them into his shop. I am done for today. I think I will have the first cup of coffee in the evening, maybe with a shot of whiskey in it.
My husband smoked some mullet today, you can not eat more native food than smoked mullet. They are not as good this time of year as they are in the summer. In the summer they are full of fat and when you smoke them and the fat seeps through the meat, aw, it is unexplainably good.
All photos are mine
