Carl’s in the back yard, making room for his trip to Portland by working the morning shift removing turf* from the back yard.
Ashlan is still in bed, making room for more Z’s before getting up at the last possible moment to get to work**
Jay is biding time, waiting for a ride to get to work at the last possible moment before the never ending series of meetings and way behind projects begin for the day***
* Calling the stuff in our backyard turf is stretching the imagination. There were more moss layers and weeds than blades of grass. That is the reason for ripping it up.
** Ashlan is resting up for the drive to work in the OLD car, since Carl wants the NEW car for the drive to Portland. If she were to try and help Carl she would have had to have been up hours ago – due to the need to shower after spending any time at all working in the back yard (dust-dirt-sweat) [OLD & NEW are of course relative terms. The oldest family owned car (not included in this discussion) is actually the newest owned family car.]
*** Jay is not out helping Carl due to the same reasons noted above for Ashlan, although some at work might like the visual verification that Jay actually knows how to do “real” work.
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