The Dead Zone - Random thoughts and ramblings

I've been a good boy again today, f*ck the pain! I have things to do!

I cleaned out a couple hundred pounds of crud, stuff left behind from firewood, from the back of my truck.  I let it get wet! I put the snowblower in the shed. Added some StaBil and ran the carb out of gas.

We still have to sew a repair on the bigger part of the boat cover!

I raked the leaves away from the front of the house, cleaned the remaining hosta plants.

Put that stuff in one of my big trash cans.  I need to contact our local landfill.  I have about 5 bags of water softener salt.  I have no idea how to dispose of this.

Talking about lawns I mowed the entire lawn today afterwards I was totally EXHAUSTED!

I've been slowly getting some of my work done around here. I mowed the front yard yesterday. Before I did that I checked the tires on the tractor and tried to get one of the blades off so I could sharpen it. I put a block of wood against the blade to try to stop it from turning while I try to loosen the bolt.

I have a piece of pipe that I use to add leverage to my 1/2 drive breaker bar, I couldn't find it.  The damn blade was just bending anyway!

I've never seen so many dandelions, Mama was kind enough to pickup some weedkiller today when she was out.  I filled one trash can with leaves from the old dog run, I'll let them dry out a little more and get the rest tomorrow.

Jimbo wrote: aka ron wrote: I've never seen so many dandelions, Mama was kind enough to pickup some weedkiller today when she was out. My yard fills up with Spider Wort. Hard stuff to kill. Best way to get rid of it is to just dig each plant up by the roots. Lotta work, though. I also get a lot of Biden's Alba. Not hard to kill, but because so many bees and butterflies land on it, I don't like spraying poison on it.

I've never seen so many dandelions, Mama was kind enough to pickup some weedkiller today when she was out.

The general at an AFB in Indiana my dad was stationed at absolutely hated dandelions & would send out hundreds of men to pull them up.  Not one small yard, but the whole frikkin' base... 

Do you remember that you're supposed to blow on a dandelion and make a wish.  I know they're technically weeds, but I like dandelions and think they're pretty!

It's a freaking beautiful day in the neighborhood here today, how things can change in less than a month.





Our latest 'toy'... It's a freaking ghost!

Where's the moustache?

MrTim wrote: Got a new friend today while mowing the yard.   Had a hawk following me around, going after stuff where'd I already mowed.  We got within an arm's length a few times (it would sit on branches, the fence & a street sign) and we just looked at each other as I drove past.  It wasn't scared of the riding mower at all.  Also got some inspiration & put up a PVC pipe perch near the mac tree (it's getting cleaned out by the tree rats again this year), should be some good hunting there if it figures it out...

Well, I don't have any commercials on my list. I'm running out of things to talk about.  Mama is bringing me some food after meeting her mom.  Her washing machine is broken so they were going shopping.

I had one outdoor chore I wanted to do today. I looked like Pigpen while mowing the lawn yesterday, a cloud of dust followed me everywhere.  I wanted to get the irrigation pump up and running.  So much for that idea, it's raining now anyway. I'll try again tomorrow.  My chest was feeling a little funky, too.