First there was Jelly. My kid brought home Jelly and told us all that they were going to marry. That was several years ago. They still aren't married and for this some of us are very grateful. Jelly is a wonderful person and we all love her...let me get this out right now. Jelly is loved, but Jelly makes us all a bit crazy. Jelly likes to be right. Even when Jelly is wrong, Jelly is right. Jelly will defend the right to be right til the death...even when Jelly is proved wrong.
Jelly thought that living in Idaho was so perfect that Jelly began to believe that Jelly should bring family members to come here and live with us. We are just one big Happy family. *Sarcasm* (That is for those of you that don't understand sarcasm....just like Sheldon in "The Big Bang Theory") So Jelly brought them all here and for a time my house was crammed full of people. Jelly and one of her siblings, Jery, thought it would be marvelous to buy a house here. So they set off to do just that. They bought a house here and moved some of us into it and others stayed behind in the other house. This is a nice way of saying the stress of it all caused a separation and eventual divorce to occur.
So begins the story of Jelly and Jery and their incredible adventures.
The house that Jelly and Jery bought was a very nice place, but it needed a bit of work and of course there is the daily maintenance involved in being a home owner.
The first major purchase was a washer and dryer. My kid was buying the washer and dryer so he thought he would be able to choose what he wanted. No such thing. There were "discussions" *sarcasm* , about the color, size, shape, brand and model he should purchase. It couldn't be that awful candy apple red, because Jelly hates red. It couldn't be Navy Blue since that would just show any dust, it must be white. Then came the discussion about whether or not it should be front loading or not. I think the kid won that one since they are front loaders and that was a real bone of contention with both Jelly and Jery. So the kid bought the washer and dryer.
Then came the next thing that needed to be purchased...a lawn mower. Jery decided that a new mower was not a purchase he wanted to make. Jery claimed that there were plenty of used Lawn mowers that would do the job just as well. He was even willing to spend $20 on a nice used lawn mower. But it better be in really good condition for that kind of money. So off he went to all the second hand stores to find the perfect mower. In the door came a weed eater, (we could use that to cut the grass until we found the perfect mower), a hand log splitter (you never know when that's gonna be helpful), and a snow blower (it was only $12 bucks...don't know if it works, but that will take care of snow removal this winter). No mower though. In the mean time no job either. All the talk of having a job before the move was just that...talk.
Jery finally found a mower. It turned out to be a good one too. Of course, it cost considerably more than $20 - try $125 - for that perfect used lawn mower. (This is a mower that originally cost $700 and he got it because the people were moving and it didn't fit in the moving truck.) Jery bought it as he was walking down the street and stopped to talk to the guy about his shiny red lawn mower.
Jery intended to mow that lawn every week. That lasted for a couple of weeks. Then it turned into every other week, and then once a month. It was two months before winter hit when the lawn was last mowed.
There is speculation, by every one that meets our young friend Jery, that Jery was dropped on Jery's head a lot while a baby. I think it was more like Jery was thrown out the window with the bath water before Jery's mother remembered Jery was in the bath. She would then trudge down the stairs and out the door to retrieve him. Everyone that meets Jery pulls either myself or my kid aside and asks, "Is Jery all there...you know mentally?". It's rather disconcerting to have your opinions voiced by others. Sometimes even Jelly looks at Jery with that speculation in her eyes.
Jelly and Jery moved to Snowy Idaho from the desert of California. And so started the Adventures of Jelly and Jery.
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