Dear So and So

[bmccasland]

Dear Self,
Please remember to take your asthma meds PRIOR to mowing the lawn. Your airway and lungs would appreciate it.

At least they'll get a rest before you have to do that again. Or get some sheep. Or a lawn guy.

[Pax]

I vote for lawn guy. After years of suffering through yard work and being so messed up I couldn't go outside for days afterward... hired a guy to mow and now I get to spend time enjoying myself outside!

[emily_in_nc]

Pax -- so sorry about the loss of your friend. Sensless and tragic.

Dear upstairs neighbors,

Are you running a day care up there? I honestly thought that since your kids were grown, we wouldn't have herds of little elephants running across the floor above us and screaming quite so often. It's great that you've made so many new friends while you spend your winter holidays here, but how I yearn for some peace and quiet! Glad we're getting away for five days tomorrow. I need it badly before I say something I live to regret.

Dear self,

Never again buy or rent any place underneath anyone else!

[OakLeaf]

I wear an N95 mask to do yard work (and ride my moto) when pollen is high. The drugstore "pollen masks" are useless - the OSHA masks are well worth the extra couple of bucks.

I'm going to need some sheep for sure. Maybe we should have a collective TE flock to travel with the seasons. Most people up home have already mowed two or three times, and we won't even be home for another three weeks or so ... just hoping all the mower needs is fresh gas and a battery charge ...

[spokewench]

((Pax and CC))

[alexis_the_tiny]

Dear Self,
Please remember to take your asthma meds PRIOR to mowing the lawn. Your airway and lungs would appreciate it.

At least they'll get a rest before you have to do that again. Or get some sheep. Or a lawn guy.

I vote for the sheep. Sheep's milk cheese is delicious...

[Sky King]

Dear Rain,
Just stop! No deep water classes this week because of spring break and I was really planning some good bike rides to compensate and test out the stronger legs

[marni]

I vote for the sheep. Sheep's milk cheese is delicious...

as a hand spinner and hand weaver and knitter I second the motion!

[alexis_the_tiny]

Dear Dr. Drunk, the last time some rich person in a big car killed a cyclist and ran off, they pleaded not knowing that they hit someone. Now you're pleading the same thing too? Jeez, dude, you hit TWO cyclists. And killed one. Come on. Whatever. I have no faith in the justice system here. Just for drinking and driving alone, there's a special place in afterlife for you and I'll bet it's not gonna be a pleasant one.

On a totally unrelated note...

Dear school doctor, I love you. Thank you for finally taking me seriously when I say I've had allergies pretty much ALL THE DANG TIME for the last 20 years or so. And thank you for giving me a medication I can use long term without any horrible side effects because you get it that I don't see my allergies for a few days, I see them for years. I could have done without the where I'm at risk for asthma but, well, can't blame you for that one, I blame my cruddy immune system.

[lph]

Dear Body,

yah, you rock! After three weeks of sneezing and coughing and congestion and bronchitis and fever and chills and headaches and no hearing or sense of smell or taste, you pulled through, all on your own without any help from meds. Ok, so you're you're still expending blobs of bright yellow something from your breathing apparatus, and you're a little pudgy round the middle and not about to pass anyone on the daily commute for a long time yet, but dang, you whupped that virus! Proud of you

- your surprisingly patient brain

[Blueberry]

Dear Real Estate Agents showing houses:

When you schedule an appointment on an hour's notice, we re-arrange our day and bust our butts to have the house perfect, it would be really awesome if you actually showed up. I wouldn't think you would have a conflict come up that quickly.

It would also be nice (for those of you who have come through) if you would not track so much mud that we have to mop the floors between every showing. We have inside mats and outside mats, and there's really not much mud in our yard. What gives?

While we're on the subject, feedback of "I didn't realize it only had one bathroom" or "we didn't realize it was so small" just means that you are incapable of reading. All of these things are listed on the MLS. Feedback that it should be listed for <significantly less> than it is isn't helpful either. We're squarely in the range every agent told us to list it. Since you are the only one who has made such a comment (out of many, many showings), you are clearly an outlier.

Signed,

Sick, cranky, and tired of being booted away from home and office for NO reason

[indysteel]

(((Blueberry))). FWIW, I asked people to take their shoes off when viewing my house. As far as I know, they complied (it was winter and the carpeted floors were cleaned before it went on the market). I left a tray for the shoes near the front door.

The post-viewing comments are THE WORST. They always left me feeling so dejected. It takes some emotional fortitude to sell a home in this market; more than I often had.