If you see a man with yellow hands, thats my husband

You know, for all my husband's many and varied bad points, he does have a few good points. One which I may not mention on this blog, and the other is that he is very very good at DIY. He has tool skills which will make other men green with envy. (which, if I was being rude, I might say may or may not be related to the first point, heh heh)

 

Not sure if I told you, but last weekend I decided the kids needed to have bunnies, so I told Kate to ask her father for a bunny. Now, Marko is a soft touch when it comes to his precocious precious daughter so before you could say 'but who will feed and take care of the bunnies', he had whipped out his drawing kit, designed an entire first class bunny hutch, bought the material and created a masterpiece.

 

Two days and 200 hundred blisters later, just as he had finished the masterpiece; his darling wife decided that the bunnies needed a place to play in the garden. Unfortunately for all involved, we have a rather large dog who is rather fond of bunnies, which meant that Scary (yes, Kate called her bunny Scary, why are we not surprised) and Snowy would have to have their own special cordoned off section of the garden.

 

Next weekend, its back to the hardware store Marko goes (by now our R60 bunnies have cost us R2500 for the hutch and the enclosure) and slaves all weekend mixing concrete, building a fence, enclosing the area, installing special mesh so that the drooling Bruno can't have bunny for lunch.

 

This evening, as he gets home from work, he strides past the pristine, hardly used kitchen and into the study. He thrusts his hands in front of me and says 'can you see anything different about my hands'? I see a few blisters and I mention so, making the right sympathetic noises, but no, he says, not the blisters, my hands are YELLOW! Can't you see they are yellow? Hmm, they do look a little on the yellow / orange side....

 

It's all my fault! he says. Apparently after working his fingers to the bone on Saturday, he went into my cupboard (mistake!) and grabbed some of my 'hand cream' to help with the pain. And did so again on Sunday. It was only after jaundice and / or gangrene of the hand threatened that he read the label on my 'hand cream' carefully - FAKE TAN! Hahahahaha! He had put fake tan all over his hands, no wonder they are yellow. Funny chap. That will teach Ole Yellow Hand about scratching around in my cupboards!

 

PS I wanted to post pics of Scary and Snowy, but they came out really fuzzy. It could be due to the fact that greasy fingers have been poking around with my camera, but I dont have conclusive proof. What I really should have done is take pics of Ole Yellow Hand, hahahaha! Oh, I am enjoying that story.

Comments

[Abbie]

Wow, that is awesome. Serves him right for getting into your cupboard!

[Simonne]

Wait till he's asleep, rub some more fake tan into his hands then take photos pretending they're the original yellow hands.

Oh, and BWA HAHAHAHHA!!

[Orange]

Yellow skin? Omigod. He's turning into Homer Simpson. Don't give him any beer or donuts.

[Heather]

That's so funny!

[Andrea]

One of my first "mom moments" -- when I had any time for myself at all, was to carefully apply fake tan to my legs, only to discover they were white as ever the next morning, and that I'd actually applied sun block! i understand why people stop trying after a while!

[Caroline]

Bwahahahaha excellent!

[Melissa]

Ok. I think I speak for everyone when I say we're going to need pictures. Not of the bunnies. Of the hands. We just HAVE to see Marko's hands. :)

[Megan]

haha. lemon juice will help take it off :-P

[R]

ok, that is damn funny!

[ruth]

hahahahaha - suck it up marko, you are not sick, your hands are just yellow . . . .

[Woody's Girl]

Forgive me if this is a sensitive subject, Tertia, but... *only* Bruno? Did I miss something? Does he no longer have a playmate?
*ducking*

As for the yellow hands, I thought you were going to say that the bunnies had PEED on Marko! LOL Now THAT would be really funny! ROFL

[deb]

Oh, Tertia! This takes me back 25 years..my son and daughter, very close to the age of Adam and Kate, decided that bunnies would be the BEST pets. Mind you, we already had 2 dog and 2 cats.

These bunnies, Bunz and Benjamin to be exact, were such lovely pets. They were litter trained, and would hop around the house like family members. The only times they ever, ever had a mistake "out of the box", was when one of the cats would lie down in their cage while they were out and about. Said cat, or should I say FAT CAT, would be blocking the bunnie's access to their litter box! Wonderful sweet pets!

They are very clean, very smart (vet told me smarter that cats and dogs!), and THEY DON'T STINK!!

Deb

[Kim]

Yay for great tool skills.

[angel]

he poor dude... works his fingers to the bone, turns yellow, and gets laughed at!
ahem
i did not laugh, i swear!

['wishIknew']

I'm laughing so hard my eyes are watering - thanks for a much needed laugh today. My husband heard me laughing and is now laughing with me as I read him the story too.

Poor Marko.
Sounds like an amazing set up for the bunnies though with all his hard work.

Haven't posted in AGES so almost must give you a BIG CONGRATULATIONS on "lucky # 7" ! Fingers continued to be crossed for you.

'wishIknew'

[Lindsay]

THAT IS CLASSIC!! I have a sore tummy from laughing!! Men!

[Lindsay]

What happened to the pup, Peter died? Do you still have Shelley? Or was it the other way round?

[Gill]

Mwahhahaha! Love it!!

[tess]

HEE HEE HEE!

and the best part is, he only has himself to blame!!!

[Wobs]

Brilliant! Maybe you should send him for a fake tan spray job - then it won't be so obvious....?

[Deblet]

Oh My What a Pawpaw!!Glad my hubbie is not the only over the top DIY guy,we also spend way more than planned with arb 'little' projects.The yellow hands had hubbie & I sceeeching with laughter serves him right for sratching in your stuff!!At least it was only fake tan ??

[Janet B]

Oh Lord! That's hysterical! My ex-husband put instant nail glue in his eyes - thought it was eye drops!! Hahahahaha!

[Beth]

Poor Marko--too funny!

[Jazz]

Bloody Funny

[Kristin]

OMG how funny! Wish you had gotten a picture of Marko with yellow hands.

[liesl]

we absolutely MUST have photos of his hands. Dont care how you do it. just do it pls! hysterical. sounds like something out of an enid blyton story I read my boys. what a laugh. thanks!

[KERRY]

That guy deserves a medal!!!
I am sitting here laughing out loud. That's one of the funniest stories ever, I'm going to be cackling for days!

[Liv]

Haha... Bunny pictures coming out fuzzy....because bunnies really are fuzzy. I need more sleep.

[renee]

ha haha ha haha ha ha haha classic!

[Maggie]

That is pretty damn funny! I'm just curious how even the tan is. A couple of months ago, when getting large with this baby, and quite exhausted, but hadn't given up trying to look half-way decent.... I made my husband put tanning lotion on my legs for me. I thought it would be fine, him being very detail oriented in general, very thorough, very much a DIY guy (definitely one of his best qualities!), and he used to be a house-painter. Huge mistake! Big orange streaks down my legs! I laughed, but was quite self-conscious while out and about with strangers. Strangely, I thought, he wasn't even ashamed of his failure!

[Beth]

Love it! You must post a photo.

[savannah]

that is tooo cute!! And sooo funny!!