10 Reasons I Love My Job

Some Perks of Working for the Dirty Hoe:

1) The crew is a cast of all star wing-nuts, and I mean that in the finest sense of the word. Actually, everyone is quite top quality, and quirky to boot. Very fine.

2) We do a "bang-up" job. Son, we can make some residences look damn good, organically.

3) Our conversations on (and off) the job are well balanced and most interesting; we spend equal time discussing diverse topics such as: interpersonal relationships, world issues, cream of nettles soup, world travel, bicycles, pet care, Jesus, and Paul's mom (and plants and stuff too).

4) I am inspired to go home after work and make cream of nettles soup.

5) With a little persistence and perstering of Heidi, German can be learned on the job. Ex. Das ist meine grosse shouvel. (Forgive the certain spelling errors.)

6) We eat the World's Best Carrot Cake on a regular basis and drink prosecco to celebrate Barack Obama. We also drink Austrian schnapps of different flavors (including the infamous turnip flavored schnapps, which tastes like alcoholic saurkraut juice.) We also eat chocolate truffles and fancy cheese and ice cream sundays at Ultimate Ice Cream.

7) We (well some of us, um, not Donna Price) wear eye glitter on Fridays. I talk about Jesus every day at 2:30, and people tolerate it.

8) My co-worker Rachel convinced me that I should take a last minute spontaneous trip to Texas (see future post) and my boss ladies encouraged it, telling me I should do shit like that while I'm young. It involved missing 2 days of work last minute notice.

9) We have Man-Hoes, too, and they pack the masculine punch.

10) Paul and I broke down in the Dirty Hoe truck at the dump last week and we made the most of it by studying the fern section in the "Landscaping with Native Plants" book and bonding with the tow-truck driver, whose name was Spanky. He was called Spanky because he used to play so many practical jokes on people at school as a boy (hence, earning lots of spankings). For example, he rather enjoyed poking people in the butt with thumb tacks, setting off the fire alarm so he could watch all the girls run down the fire escape, and scaring the teacher with snakes and frogs.