Mowed the green crap

[Franz]

26 December I wound the Homelite tractor up and chopped leaves and cut the green crap to approved height.

The damn grass was NOT 6" high as an unnamed person residing here claimed, it was barely 4. It has been chopped to 2".

I may become a global warming believer if I have to do it again in January.

[okie]

26 December I wound the Homelite tractor up and chopped leaves and cut the green crap to approved height.

The damn grass was NOT 6" high as an unnamed person residing here claimed, it was barely 4. It has been chopped to 2".

I may become a global warming believer if I have to do it again in January.

We have had summer weather here in Okla. until yesterday about noon. Then came the rain (about 6 in.) and the cold. High today 34 degrees with ice, snow and 30-40 MPH winds plus all the tornado warnings. Welcome to winter. December did not leave without leaving a mess and its still on going.

I still don't believe Al Gore stuff.

T

[Franz]

I just figured it was easier than winching a mower back and forth come Spring and listening to somebody complain it needs to be raked and bailed. Wasn't much above 40° yesterday, cooler today.

The mud issue has gotten a little dangerous here since someone of the female persuasion roared into the field in road gear pulling the dump trailer and got high centered on the mower deck. Since she had the tractor with the electric winch, she figured she'd just pull herself out and avoid the look as I drug her out with a long rope. Besides, she didn't have to hook the rope up in the mud, just climb over the seat and hook the winch to the trailer.

Would you believe winching against the trailer you're pulling is of very little use when the whole rig is stuck in mud?

She called from her cell device to inform me the winch wasn't working right. My life was threatened if I showed up with a camera during the call.

I just arrived with 100 feet of rope and said nothing. I even hooked the rope to the trailer with a snatch block so she didn't get her sneakers dirty.

[RoyM]

My side is hurting, that is hilarious. My significant other doesn't see what the problem was either. If it makes you feel better I was plowing snow.

[bobodu]

I think I'll go up to the lake in North Michigan and put my boat in the water!! Nice thing about an outboard....don't have much to do it in the winter.

[okie]

I think I'll go up to the lake in North Michigan and put my boat in the water!! Nice thing about an outboard....don't have much to do it in the winter.

Why don't you wait a couple of days and see if you feel the same. I sent some of our weather up your way.


T

[KE4AVB]

Why don't you wait a couple of days and see if you feel the same. I sent some of our weather up your way.

T

I was just wondering how you were making it Travis; just seen the stories of icing and flooding out your way.

Our weather have crazy over here in South Central Tennessee too. Just seen the grass in my front yard yesterday and today it disappeared again. Not as much rain and wind today but it is getting colder already with the passage of the cold front.

For me there is a magic temperature here to expect T-storms and the likes; it is 70F. I draw up in a knot everytime they mention these storms when it is this temperature. I seen too many twisters and had too many close calls. At my last home I twister pass both sides of it many times with one light hit. That one destroyed part of my barn. I got to build myself a storm shelter here at the new place if it ever get dry enough.

I don't any of this bad weather on anyone and yes I am still cutting grass here too but it mostly fescue grass which is winter hardy here.

[Franz]

I think I'll go up to the lake in North Michigan and put my boat in the water!! Nice thing about an outboard....don't have much to do it in the winter.

DAMN You Bobo!

I have no idea how you accomplished the dirty deed but it has your stinking white trademark costume all over it.

I got up thinking I'd look out and admire my precision cutting.
I glanced at the thermometer and it's 29° and I thought my eyes were tricking me as I looked out at the new steel roof on the garage.

Looked out the front window over my Dobies grave and sure as hell Bobo dumped a whole inch of white crap on top of the magnificently mowed green crap.
I sincerely hope the oaths I muttered made your ears hurt Bobo, and don't forget your life jacket cause I sent a team to hide your bilge plug.

[Franz]

Roy there is very good reason some of the fleet is equipped with electric winches, and that reason is 5' tall with a Masters in the Nursing profession and 87+ articles in print and 17 textbooks to her credit. She grew up in her Dad's mower shop before leaving for nursing school, and knows everything there is to know about sharpening reel mowers. (right after dad got the mower clamped in the machine)


said reason is absolutely brilliant in a hospital environment including the plantings surrounding the building.

Studies have PROVEN a disconnect between her brain and brilliance happens 9'7" from the hospital door.
Among her accomplishments- calling me to drive across town to jump her car, because Security no longer does that, I learned I shouldn't ask if she dropped her AAA coverage. She didn't know they jumped cars.

She called me to meet her in a parking lot to help change her tire that was going flat. I asked why she didn't just call AAA.
Because she didn't know they changed flat tires. She also wanted me to call and cancel her appointment because I had the number and she didn't. She had an hour to get there, BUT she refused to drive any farther than the tire shop on one of those unsafe donut tires. AAA driver about crapped himself. I also became the carrier of the flat tire, because it was dirty and she didn't want it in her car.

Called from the back yard to tell me to start the compressor because the rear tire on the tractor was soft. She didn't notice the bottom was flat as she drove in pulling the dump trailer.

I can't count the number of calls for the tractor ran about 20 feet and quit.
All machines are equipped with fuel shutoffs.
I am required by some Law of Woman to check said shutoff, place it in the on position and start the damn tractor when it quits for want of fuel.

We have twice a year in service dipstick training. It's good policy, cause that is how it is done in hospitals.
(I don't ask)

I'm not even explaining how she managed to chew the hubs off a wheelhorse using the shaft keys as cutters.

Did I mention she grew up in a mower shop, Pennsylvania Panzer dealer.

Yes, my funeral is preplanned and prepaid and the eternal file drawer is paid for too.
If I say "woman I'm dying as fast as I can in public ONE MORE time I damn well may be getting filed by morning too, and no jury will convict her."

I do mutter more than I did 25 years ago.

[RoyM]

I just choked on my coffee.