Virtually Paul

Paving the Way

April 30, 2007 on 9:46 pm | In The Life of Paul |

On Saturday, I declared the day the first official Man Day in the Bachelor Pad where I live.

I began the day with a manly bacon and eggs breakfast with some baked beans on the side. Then, in a very manly way, I did my washing, did all the dishes for everyone (aren’t I nice!) and cleaned the kitchen.

I also went for a little drive up to the real estate agent’s office that manages our little rental property and suggested that the landlord might like to locate some pavers for us so that we can avoid the mud pit that was once the property’s front lawn. As luck would have it, he gave me the address of a house he was involved with, that had a couple of hundred old pavers stacked up next to the garage waiting to go to the tip. Score!

I returned home and rallied the troops. My housemates weren’t quite as enthusiastic about Man Day as I was. Heath disappeared to go and play musical instruments with his girlfriend, leaving Warren and I, as usual, to maintain the standard of manliness about the house.

We laid our pavers out, even setting up a string line as a guide so that we could pretend that we know something about bricklaying activities and the like. Anyway, the first paver went in fine… but as I gave the shovel a good forceful dig into the ground to put in the second one, I heard that sound that every pirate on treasure island loves… but every DIY try hard digging in his front yard dreads. I’d hit something.

Fortunately, it was the previous set of pavers that had been completely buried in the front yard under about an inch of dirt. So now we have lots of pavers. And in true DIY style, we’ll think about finishing the job next Saturday.