I'm sitting on my porch, with a small DL off to my left.
The things I should get done today if I get nothing else done.
Right after making the list I decide to go into garage and get a bracket to hang the hummingbird feeder. Currently it's on a shepherd's hook in the dirt. It needs a permanent home.
So I said to myself "bracket" and got up to go to the garage. Noticing on my way that I also should get the slider things for the wood rack on the porch. The feet are metal, and it's tough to move.
Then I thought that once the wood rack is moved, I'll hang the retractable extension cord on the wall behind where the wood rack was, as part of my larger overall plan to rework that corner of my porch. The hanger for the reel was in the garage. Might as well get it too.
So I counted out loud and on my fingers, "bracket, sliders, and hanging thing," and walked into the house and out to the garage. I walked to where the slider things were and got them, then said, "Hmmm, brackets are around on the other side of Jalepeno, so I'll get the hanger thing..."
Then I couldn't remember hanger thing for what.
Then I laughed at myself.
And walked around the car to the place where the brackets are kept.
It's a tad embarrassing how many brackets I have.
I picked up one that weighed about 12 ounces and thought it would be a tad much for a hummingbird feeder. Besides, I had a bracket in mind. Naturally it was at the bottom of the stack.
I took a good look at it and said, "It's a little not straight."
Then moments later of course said, "But it's okay, it's meant to be that way."
So now slider things and bracket in hand, I went back to the other side of the garage. "Hanger thing, hanger thing, hanger thing for what, I've got a billion things that could be called hanger things."
Laughed out loud at myself some more. But kept looking. There were three things on my list.
And thus far I only had four. Because, much like Steve Martin in The Jerk, I also found a hose hanging bracket that I could use once I got my drill out after the retractable extension cord was in place. And grabbed a can of spray paint for the bracket.
So I looked at everything on the wall in my garage figuring what I was seeking would become apparent once I saw it. And after a few moments it was. It was the hanger thing for the retractable extension cord. I grabbed it, a glass of Gatorade on my way through the kitchen, and came back out to the porch.
Put everything down, put my drink by the list, and noticed nothing I had just done was on, nor supported anything on, the aforementioned DL.
