Suntan just washed right off.
By koopharper
@koopharper (7599)
Canada
June 2, 2016 9:12pm CST
Did my best today to go inside during the hottest sunniest part of the day. I usually get a sunburn working in the garden this time of year and I'm trying to be careful.
By the end of the day I was a lot darker than at the beginning. Scrubbed up at the laundry tub outside with absolutely frigid well water before calling it a day. All that wonderful tan just washed right off. Darn! It was all just dirt after all. I'm just as sickly white as I was all winter.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
3 Jun 16
bless yer heart :) i'd the same 'xperience the other day 'fter i'd mowed :)
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@Carmelanirel2 (8085)
• United States
3 Jun 16
I was spotted the other day when my son and I cleaned off my dock.. I gave him a branch that was hanging in the muck so I could trim it and as I bent over the cut, the branch slipped and I got mucky spots on my right side. 
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
3 Jun 16
I got really dirty. When I picked up Brandon at work, I told them I wasn't sure I'd get all the dirt off in time for my shift later today.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8085)
• United States
3 Jun 16
@koopharper Unless the dirt has something unnatural in it, it usually washes off pretty easily.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
4 Jun 16
@Carmelanirel2 Our reddish dirt comes off skin easily enough. I doesn't come out of clothing so well. Very high iron content.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
3 Jun 16
Oh I bet the water was refreshing. I do not garden quite so hard as you. But there are a few of us sharing the community garden.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
3 Jun 16
It was still warm outside, so yes it was refreshing. If I'd waited though, the temperature dropped and it wouldn't have been much fun.
@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
3 Jun 16
That I am. Trying to be here a little more consistently than I have for the first part of the year. Haven't seen you in a long time. Always great to reconnect.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
3 Jun 16
Boys are hoping to find better employment soon. We had a change of managers and they've had their hours cut to next to nothing. Frustrating but it has been worse for others. All of our Filipino employees quit and found other work because of the same management change. Brandon has a bit of a broken heart. His sweetheart just wants to be friends. Otherwise they're doing well.
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@sol_cee (38669)
• Philippines
3 Jun 16
@koopharper oh yeah. I'm a bowl of ramen now. How are your boys?
@Morethanamom (1948)
• Canada
5 Jun 16
I burnt my shoulders last week when I planted my veggies. Everything else is pasty white. I don't tan very easily, but when I do it hangs on.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
6 Jun 16
No burn yet. Granted we're not seeing much sun right recently either.
