The dirty weekend

I got dirty today, totally filthy...and I loved it.

Sunday began like most, with a sleep in, then a hearty breakfast of English muffins, jam-packed with bacon and eggs with hot sauce and tomato sauce combined. Trust me, don't knock it until you try it. There was coffee too, a couple Nespresso espresso's, and then I was ready to get dirty.

Before I got dirty I had to go to the porn shop...meaning the hardware store, Bunnings in my case, a legit place to go for all things hardware...well, all things really as they have just about everything a man could need to get down and dirty.

Todays dirty activities were all about pressure cleaning the pavers around my house.

All of the paths and the driveway of my house is paved as per the image above and over winter they tend to discolour with dirt, moss and mold build-up. I usually pressure clean every year although last year I didn't (I'm not sure why but, couldn't be fucken bothered, was possibly the reason) so there's somewhat of a build-up to shift and today was deployment day, operation pressure clean began in earnest.

I use a Kärcher pressure cleaner which is basically a pump that intakes water from a garden hose, performs some internal electricity-powered magic, and pumps out the same water at higher pressure through a nozzle. Once set up and plugged in one simply applies the nozzle to whatever needs pressure cleaning and...it cleans.

With two years of build up I had to get some purpose-made cleaning solution to help move the moss and mold, a basic solution mixed 1:1 with water, applied with a watering can, left for 15 minutes and pressure washed off. It worked a treat.

It's sort of fun doing pressure cleaning...until one's back starts to hurt from bending slightly, and hands and forearms ache from operating the damned spray nozzle all day. Other than that it's fun....Except for the fact that one gets very dirty, and I don't mean in a pleasurable sort of way. The dirt, grime, moss and mold goes everywhere and one gets quite messy, again, not in a pleasurable way.

I have a few hundred square metres of paved areas to pressure clean so it's not something I can do in a day. I was also interrupted by a couple friend who dropped in to fuck up my work flow, although they brought lunch and I forgave them for slowing me down. Because I'm me I like to clean up the mess as I go so at the end of operation pressure clean - day one I made sure the place was tidy for the week ahead and then next weekend I'll redeploy and get dirty again.

Who doesn't like a dirty weekend, am I right? But this one wasn't one of those dirty weekends unfortunately, you know, boy/girl/no inhibitions. Still, it was quite enjoyable as seeing the end result of a day of toil and effort is a pretty cool thing, or so I think.

It's late Sunday afternoon now and time for a shower, a change of clothes and some contemplation around what I'm going to have for dinner. It's a take-out night tonight, I'm too bloody sore and tired from a day of getting dirty to cook. I'm thinking Thai food.

I hope y'all have had a great weekend so far; drop me a comment and let me know what you're up to, especially if you've had a dirty weekend of working around the house getting some DIY done. What are you doing and how's it going? But regardless what you've been up to, feel free to let me know below.