No one rings our door bell any more. Not the mail man when he leaves a package at my front door. The Fed Ex guy fails to ring our door bell and even when the UPS driver delivers insulin to my front door he doesn't ring the door bell. We seldom use the front door since my wheel chair is in the garage and my wife doesn't go outside unless she's taking the car out somewhere. Sometimes we don't see our front door for days.
Light bulb in grow light died. At least I hope it's just the bulb. Ordered new one but for a few days have to carry three flats of seedlings outside in AM and back in at night.
Not at all, Tom Jones didn't have a lawn either: Down the lane, I walk with my sweet Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherries It's good to touch the green, green grass of home Then I awake and look around me At four grey walls that surround me And I realize, yes, I was only dreaming For there's a guard and there's a sad, old padre barfo
Croquet? and you call yourself a pirate? Whats wrong with tackle football, frisbee, Hackey Sack or love Ins or Concerts on the lawn! Croquet sounds to aristocratic for a scalawag!
Pirates aspire to high society too, you know. Our fearsome appearance masks our need for acceptance, but be not fooled, we are sensitive creatures. barfo P.S. not really, all we want is to lop your head off and feed it to the fishes.
Three things: 1. When I heard that song in Vietnam over and over and over again it brought tears to my eyes longing for the good ol' USA; 2. Nothing makes a BBQ better than the smell of fresh cut grass; 3. How am I going to get my fishing worms without a lawn to pour soapy water on? It brings a ton of worms to the surface.
As a kid I remember my best friend and his dad (avid fishermen both) would go out at night, water their lawn, insert two metal rods into the ground and then hook them up to an old car battery. You’ve never seen worms moves so fast. They’d just come boiling up from the ground. My friends dad just couldn’t see buying worms at a bait shop when the ground was chock a block full of them.......
We have a housekeeper twice a month; makes my wife's life much easier. I do the fun gardening stuff - planting, playing with my roses, etc. - but the big stuff like fall leaf cleanup, we hire a gardener. I am also completely inept at fixing things, so although I can write a book, I was literally unable to figure out that our tub was stopped up because the drain plug was in. So yes, I have to hire a handyman far too often.
This is funny. Back in the mid 70's I worked with a guy that had retired from the Army moved to Oregon with his new Japanese wife. He was a big time gardener and yard freak, so he called the zoo and ask if he could get some elephant shit for fertilizer and they said sure and they would even deliver whatever amount he wanted. He made arrangements to have a couple yards delivered for Saturday so he could be home. Well on Thursday, he gets a call at work from a neighbor saying you better get your ass home right away as the Zoo came and dumped a whole dump truck of elephant crap in your driveway and street and the whole neighborhood is pissed. His neighbor told him his wife wouldnt talk to anyone about it or call him as it was Don's responsibility not hers. She had here own responsibilities. He ended up hiring a company to come get it, except for what he was to use. His wife packed his lunch everyday and he never knew what was to eat, she also ironed his work close every morning and bathed his back for him in the evening. She once left the car in the street when it wouldn't restart, just left it there and didn't call him he got a call from the police. She had her duties and he had his. I never laughed so hard in my life when he told us about elephant crap.
Last I heard which must be at least two decades ago, the zoo was selling their animal dung for fertilizer.
Holy shit, but yeah, that's inept. But what can I say? One time in college I spent half an hour looking for my glasses after i showered and found them rotated such that the lenses were on top of my head. Come on guys, what stupid things have you done, and Sly, tell us something different than lighting your farts during heavy drinking parties. I mean, who among us hasn't done that?
