Ever since the pandemic began, all I could do was mope around the house.
Sitting home alone all day made me bored, and I wanted to go see my friends.
I was so over cleaning my room and doing the chore list that mom always left on the kitchen counter. I felt like I was the laundry boy and dishwasher. My dad heard me grumbling one afternoon and asked if I had a problem? I told him I had to get out of the house. He gave me a job cleaning out the shed. He told me to get everything out and clean the tools. Although it wasn’t something I wanted to do, it was better than being in the house. Within a week I had the shed cleaned, and I scrubbed every down while hanging up the tools and putting them away. When my dad came home from work the following Monday, he brought a big box with him. He told me to take it out of the box and figure out how to put it in the shed. I couldn’t believe he had brought a ductless HVAC system home with him. I was busy getting ready to install the HVAC system when dad came out to help. He was proud of what I had done with the shed. Once we got the HVAC system installed and running, my dad gave me another box. I had always wanted to build things. He gave a dog house kit and said now that there was heating and air conditioning, I could work out here whenever I felt overwhelmed. I was wondering when we were getting the dog.