Thinking Spring Maintenance

How many of you like doing maintenance? No, neither do I. My car goes to the garage when it won’t start or something sounds terrible and my roof gets fixed when it starts raining inside. I am not good at preventative maintenance and I pay the price. Some people reading this just don’t understand this attitude. My mechanic has got used to me and he often does things I have not asked him to do because he is not sure when the next time will be that he sees my van again and I appreciate the fact that he is looking out for me. My excuse is I’m busy and I don’t have time. Well it works sometimes (the excuse that is).
When it comes to our back yards now is the time to do some maintenance (cleaning and sharpening tools etc.). We are not out in the yard yet and in fact unless you are pretty cold blooded or live in a different part of the world it still looks like winter outside here in Canada. The thing is, the time of year tells us that it won’t be long now and we will want to be outdoors in our back yards having fun or relaxing again. So while we have a chance we need to get ready so we don’t miss a minute.
I have often wasted those minutes by not doing maintenance in a timely fashion. I go to do a quick job so I can enjoy the rest of the day and oops it doesn’t work and then I spend half the day getting it fixed or buying a new one and then I miss out on my time to relax. I know you have done the same thing but some of you have learned from those experiences and do things so that it isn’t repeated.
This article did not go where I had planned. I meant to start talking about what types of maintenance we should be doing at this time of year in preparation for spring but sorry I got talking about me again and not a good me either. So over the next few entries I am going to talk about what we need to be doing to get ready for spring and I promise not to tell you things that I am not willing to do. You can check me up on it too.
Well so far I am still thinking but I promise to get started this week how about you? Wait I haven’t talked about what we need to do yet. O well if I can think of something to start on you probably can too.

Maintenance “By the yard”