My Latest Adventure...
Well Spring has sprung..Grass is growin. and growin. like weeds hehehehe... them too.. So any ways...I got an old ridin mower...paid like 25 dollars for it three years ago... made a gas tank outta a cheepy plastic gas can...tinkered with it got it runnin... probably look like a whale ridin a tricycle hehehe...I mode the grass last week wit it.. cool beans... then couple days ago.. I decided it was widin time again... ask the boy.(myson) to do the back yard... he didnt wanna....Well junior he aint into doin tings like most folks...you know you go around the outside edge.. or back and forth... nope not my boy.... he is like cuttin figure eights... chasin squirrels...(look dad no hands) yepp no brainer there lol...dodgin them big pine trees in da back yard...Junior he did have a good time....and took a little longer to finish..dang near hung him self on the cloths line...that old mower aint got no safety switchin thingy... If ya fall off it keeps rite on going and going... hurry up boy it's almost in da street... dagnabit junior run faster boy... junior he don't run.. well andy way...it was an eventful after noon...So thursday..I wanna do some widin... got me beer... fired up old paint... backed off the patio... started mowin grass...hung a left around the first corner of me yard...decided I wanna take the wide open space first ..since I aint finished me beer...like to ride slow... take me time...enjoy the sunshine and me beer hehehe...well it's the only beer I gonna have all week..gotta have one bad habit rite...NOPE?Oh well like I'm listen lol.. andy way back to mowin... I got to hang a right...I'm singalin for the turn lane... and well morer aint turnin.. the steerin wheel turn but not the morer...even spilt me beer... jeesh....JUNIOR...!He can't hear me... he got selective hearin... yepp.... Ifins I'd of hollered Bugger King he'd be there lol...So I put it (da morer in reverse) back up turn left..back up turn left till I make it back to the patio..Well I disasembled the whole front end of that old tang...it aint the most bestest steerin system I ever saw... just a flat piece of steel wit teeth ground into it.. and they like messed up plum...some bent this way and some bent that way.. mostly some missin ... right in the middle..where ya go straight they buggered up somethin ferious... Well I make like a repair man... take my trusty hammer and beat that thing back straight.... get out the old file and grind them teeth back best I could...welll it looked like it might work... rite... I'm gettin too old for this chit... andy way... two days.. messin with the steerin... I'm bruised... knees hurt hands hurt... grumpy... more grumpy...mostly cause I spilt my weekly beer.. jeesh... I got dat old morer back to gether...yepp...now it wont start cause I flooded it...JUNIOR...! Oh...yeah... Burger KING...!I'm ready to go Dad..! yepp he here rite now... jeesh... okey ..Looky jr.. pull on that rope for me a while...one..... two.... three... three a charm.. old morer fires rite up....All them squirrels line up on one the pine tree limbs... holdin pine cones... Jr. he like eases back in the house...reckon them squirrels got him spooked.. serve ya rite boy..them squirrels don't like bein chased by no crazy kid on a widin morer.. he gone.. aint heard a word I said...well I talk to myself alot.... squirrels heard me ....told em I got a 12 gauge say ya better put then pine cones down ... yeppers... they gone.. cones and all....Me I get all comfy on that rider .. back out into the yard.. so far so good....well alone the back stretch of grass that old morer starts driftin...first this way then that... kinda looks like the way junior mows grass... an I promised to mow the neighbor ladies yard...so I start fightin my old morer.... got this spot in the middle where nothin happins... I'm pussin and tuggin on the steerin wheel trin too find some teeth.. gottya.. turn rite ... nope turn dang ya... gee.. almost got that tree.. well there a lot of play in the steerin... hehehe... reminds me of an old truck I once drove...one the neighbors in the project she like laughin her butt off watch me try to mow the grass... go head laugh.... caught a sight of couple squirrels looked like they laughin too.. Me I aint got time to laugh.. accidently got it in high gear.. whoa nelly... move over trees... gee... that was close... Yepp I got the yard mowed... few strecks here in there...by the time I finish... i know this old morer aint mowin no more grass till I can steer it.... so andy way... I plop down in my lawn char.....it 400 pound tested.. yepp... sun is nice... but I see clouds comin over the river... ganna rain...me I'm like that old morer... missin some teeth...aint prutty.. but hey with a little weldin and some soap and water me ant that old morer clean up pretty good.....So hey I'm proud of myself... all that wrestlin counts as exercise rite... so when I cross my pontica butt with that briggs -n-stratton lawn mower.. we gett the job done...I'm happy... neighbors happy .... squirrels are relieved... junior aint mowin lol...so next week maybe I use a push mower lol... laters... russ...
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Ya\'ll was s\'pose to laugh....
I still don\'t hear no laughin...
oh yeah.. i forget I\'m deaf lol..
Ha Ha Ha.........okay now Russ, i\'m laughing!!! It sounds like my own lawn mower escapades here in the North East. I\'ve always loved mowing the lawn but since MS has slowed me down......this old gray mare........she aint what she used to be.
Last summer I was out pushing our mower (we\'ve got like 2 acres to mow), and anyway............life was good. But after a few swipes back and forth I began getting over heated...........staggering out front in the yard. Hubby was inside and had no idea. Well........................oh did I mention i\'m stubborn??? LOL.....anyway I was dragging butt and then.........................oops!......................I turned our water hose into a sprinkler system! just great :-( lol. I went inside, confessed to hubby what i\'d done...........he laughed. But seeing my purple face he made me sit in front of a fan before I passed out. After I cooled down, I went back outside and he said \"what are you doing? trying to kill yourself? ...............no...........I want the job done. So outside I go (this time with ice packs around my neck) hehehe...............all was going alright until I hit some of those \"blade finders\"............aka rocks........Russ, I thought after all these years i\'d of smoothed them out. Nope...............I hit the \"blade finders\" then the mower made a horrendous noise.............scared the bejeebers outa me. I stood there and watched black smoke come out of the engine..........then \"poof!! I blew up the engine!
So anyway I said, to heck with this stuff, I want a \"Reel Mower\", like grandpa used to have. So.............we bought one. I figured, no motor so I can\'t destroy this one. Well...................as of now we only still have the \"Reel Mower\". I made two swipes here last night and thought i\'d die..........hehehe. So............guess what we\'re doing later on today? Going Lawnmower shopping! Yep................don\'t know what we\'ll end up with. I know I could\'nt drive a riding lawn mower to save my soul LOL.
Oh...............did I mention the \"bleeding heart\" plant and the Lily of the Valleys\' that I mowed over several years ago, came back finally? They\'re alive!
Now.............if only that dang lawn mower with the busted motor had 9 lives!!!!
Hey my friend. Enjoy your day! Sorry I rambled on..........I do this from time to time.
:-) Happy Mowing!!!!