Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

Lawn is far over rated.
I grew up in Essex Center, Vt. from ~1958 to 1973. My Dad and Grandfather bought a 30 acre parcel of the most beautiful land. Gently rolling, about 30 acres total. We [Grandfather (a master carpenter, former railroad Engineer), Dad (Mechanical Engineer at IBM), and I (gopher from age 12 up)] cleared and built a duplex for both the families over the course of about 3 years.
My Grandfather was addicted to LAWN. My Dad liked to hunt and fish, often with me.
Grandfather started with about half an acre of lawn tight to the house, enough to keep the bugs down. But then kept adding to it EVERY YEAR. My Dad mowed the lawn, starting with only a pushmower Craftsman 4HP lawnmower. But eventually moving up to a 15HP riding tractor as the acreage maintained expanded to about 5 acres.
During the summer he spent most of his "free" time mowing (this was before ZT's). He grew to hate it.
Since then I've always tried to keep my lawns minimal in size.

When we put the lawn in here, we had two walk-behind mowers ... both around 20" - 22".

One was self-propelled (a golden Murray IIRC), one wasn't.

Thankfully, the Old Man let me use the one that was self-propelled.

I was probably around 11 or 12 at the time.

We did that for a couple of years - including the entire front I've posted pictures of ... and I absolutely hated it.

That was before he got the IH 444 and the Imco 60" brush hog.

Once we had that, I was good with cutting the grass ... including the 8 acres of fallow field ... more seat time ...

 

[rswyan]

fix that porch before you have the neighborhood dance party over RS...

No "fix", only "disassembly" ...

 

[Buppies]

Thanks for support refuses to go to doctor gets belligerent

Paving cul de sac today about half done

Nice pup wngsprd

 

[sodamo]

66°F and .35 inches rain.

Guys won H&F last night.

Didn’t sleep well. Up about half dozen times with sharp, cramp like pain in my calves. No clue as to why. Could walk them off a just a few minutes.

3 areas left to mow, should get 1 and a partial done before heading into town for laser eye procedure. Can’t say I notice any benefit from last week. I didn’t have a complaint really, just something the Dr had commented on every exam since my cataract surgery.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The youngest got to work before i woke up this morning.
Good breakfast with part of the gang this morning, 5 out of 8.
Then stopped by the church building and did some cleaning.
After that dropped a release form off at son's DR office, so they can send records concerning his short term disability claim.
Then dropped off my Amazon return at UPS.
busy morning for me.
.46" rain so far today.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,

Since then I've always tried to keep my lawns minimal in size.

newbury, this is the Ct lawn not Vt. I am one of those people that think they should own and maintain two properties !

So I am definitely on board with your thinking, because I am becoming painfully aware that it is very difficult to take care of both properties properly ! We are thinking of getting a property in Ct that is easier to maintain, like no pool to begin with ! Time will tell !

Have a good afternoon !

 

[sodamo]

Della

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Cute

 

[two_bit_score]

Where I was raised tips were shared with the backroom staff.
I'd just make a point to tell them I deducted 2% from the tip.

They do need to know.

 

[sodamo]

Rs, didn’t realize Arthur Treachers was still around. Used to like their fish.

 

[two_bit_score]

Drew, hope you continue with recovery. My RV friend in Maine is still posting from there. Here is something that should sound good on your speaker system.

That sunrise pic and the guitar music should make Drew want to shake a leg. Get well soon!