Send help for Matt and I’ll forward it on: On TNML sticker placement Then Saturdays turn into margs on the cantina patio - or maybe on your own patio - while wearing the most comfortable shirt on the planet. It’s great to see the wives understanding and appreciating the structure of TNML and how it frees their husbands from spending their weekends doing these tasks. I’m going straight to Matt’s wife instituting “Poop Clean Up” Wednesdays to the calendar. I’m going to leave that great question for the experts on here with insane-looking properties. However, my wife is all in on TNML as she’s officially added “Poop Clean Up” to the Wednesday family calendar and “Mow” on Thursdays… it’s like when your artwork makes it to the family fridge!! Thanks for all you do! I’m unfortunately out for the golf outing as baby #2 is due the weekend before.
My question for the group is should I be patching spots with the topsoil first or should I aerate then patch things up? I was planning on getting some topsoil down before reseeding to patch some spots, but the neighbor and I are also booked to rent an aerator for Saturday. I’ve got 3 dogs and so many patches to fix (particularly around my deck stairs). Looking for help from the seasoned vets of the TNML crew: Is it hard to find random Legos these days? TNML member needs your help There’s a 0.0% chance his 5-year-old nephew is looking to part with any Legos. Odd texts out of left field after I’d had a couple of Garage Beers® Now I just need to find a Kirkland Signature dad sweatshirt like the guy checking cards was wearing. We get our receipt - the kids are always in charge of handing it to the retiree at the door - and we are released into the wild of massive SUVs lining up to haul off their new 75″ Samsungs. There’s the hunt for the best Sample Saturday offerings and the obligatory search for the Air BBQ 2022 Kirkland Air Lights, but alas the shelves are offering up $14.99 slip-on patio shoes that I snap up for formal summer outings. Onward through the baked goods… holy crap those muffins look incredible! Through the racks of ribs…the rotisserie chickens! Then it’s a nice, smooth trip up the far wall to the fruit and vegetable cold freezer where my son does damage on the fruits. Then it’s over to the quiet and solitude of the air fryer aisle, up to the new toilets, spin around the next aisle to see what’s going on in the lighting section.
We zip in and out of the plants that are being sold three weeks too soon and make our way over to the pool stuff that’s being sold 6-7 weeks too early. Then we roll into the store and my son has his theories on why we need one of everything. I love to explain how I’m all about the low-stress Costco runs where I don’t have to dodge Chevy Suburbans because we’re three rows over from the maniacs trying to navigate 10-passenger vans around Dodge RAMs. I love the questions about why we have to park way in the back right next to a cart corral. He’s being taught the art of finding the perfect parking spot well away from the mass of cars who need to park their massive SUVs as close to the front door as possible on a beautiful 58-degree Saturday. It might sound bizarre, but Costco road trips with my five-year-old are joyous these days. Now, let’s go to the “joy” portion of the self-help. It’s just four guys out in the woods slapping around a golf ball and not sitting in front of a computer screen. The most important thing for me right now with golf is solitude. We need to know when to provide comic relief for the A-players and when to celebrate our successes like an A-player while never forgetting we’ll never be A-players. I’m no good, but we all have to fill our roles on the golf course.
No, I haven’t been reading self-help books full of 101 deep questions to ask Internet readers. It stopped me in my tracks because this simple exercise is something I’ve been hitting on with the “What brings you joy?” question I’ve been asking readers for the last several months.
What he was asking is “What do you do, for yourself, that brings you joy, like you used to experience when you were a child, free of responsibility?” One thing that stuck with Larry was a question the therapist presented to him: “What do you do for fun?” Larry wrote about losing his father in 2021 and how he’d been going to a therapist to get his head right over the loss. I want to start this with something I saw on a former coworker’s Facebook timeline the other day. Weekend recap & the art of finding a parking spot at Costco