Front Gardens etc. Backhoe dug!!!!!

DannyD · Jul 18, 2004

Here is the first real project for the backhoe on my 23. This is the front of my house, bushes are on the way as I rest from my "work"

One question, is it alright if she recognizes that I am having "fun" digging so she encourages me to keep going. Had a hard time convincing her this was really work.

DannyD · Jul 18, 2004

Second one with the tractor stretching its leg..........

DannyD · Jul 18, 2004

This bed was about 12 years old, all of a sudden it had to be bigger...........more "work" I guess. It will now be done with landscaping blocks that we had left over from the pond project.

Henro · Jul 18, 2004

<font color="blue"> One question, is it alright if she recognizes that I am having "fun" digging so she encourages me to keep going. </font>

DannyD,

I can tell you from experience there is great danger there...

Initially the toy aspect is certainly there...and unfortunately the better half can perceive this well...

But later the tool aspect takes over, and the other kind does not perceive the tool aspect well, and can only see the toy aspect as that is what was there in the beginning...and being what they are, that is all they can understand for the most part...so, better to nip it in the bud if you can and carry a towel with you, constantly wipe your brow, ask for water and drink when you are not thirsty, and complain about how hard it is to work that tractor but you are doing for her, so it not that bad after all... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Unfortunately, no one was there to give me this kind of good advice...now I have to live with the better half's toy syndrome...when in fact, honestly, and truly, the toy has become a tool that I love to use, but a tool it is and I do tire after 10 hours of tractor work in a day...

I get no compasion...she simply writes it off as too much play in a day, for which no credit is given either...

Poor me... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Beware...