Today I decided to go out to the local lawn mower dealership and buy a new lawnmower. I bought one of those new types that you sit on and drive like a bulldozer. If you really want to get fancy and not get off of the mower to dump it you can get one where you just sit there and push a button on the side and the gate opens and the body picks up and dumps your lawn clippings. It also comes diesel powered which is what I bought with a posi-track hydrostatic transmission and halogen headlights in case I have to mow sometime at night, which is often the case. I just got it home and made four passes across the front of my lawn. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, it’s a 52″ cut. I really wanted a 72″ cut but I couldn’t justify it. This one will have to do for now.
Archive for July, 2008
I was browsing the Internet, just looking around and stumbled on a website called stunning-stuff.com. It looks like it has not been updated in a couple of years, which is too bad because I really enjoyed reading it! It is full of strange, weird, funny news. The topics vary greatly, from sex to animals to technology, to crime, to health. I’ve spent about the last hour just going from story to story, really enjoying the site!
This is one of the years where I knew exactly what I was going to spend my income tax refund check on. My wife and I had a discussion about it, she finally looked at me and said “do whatever you want.” I think she had some other things in mind, but when everything was said and done she seemed to be happy with my choices. I got an extremely large amount back this year because one of the things that I did last year was have the company that I work for take extra money out (I planned on this.) OK. Back to my plan. I’m having a new driveway put in, hot top. Two layers, ten feet wide, nice and smooth and a drainage ditch to the side. My driveway slopes downhill and every year one area of it always washes out no matter what I do. Well, next year, when it rains hard, I’ll just laugh as the water runs down the side of the driveway in the ditch and into the big pile of crushed rock at the bottom that I put off to the side. This will be the end of me having to fix the driveway every year! It think it will also be a lot easier to maintain.
Down by the beach, where my dock is, the shoreline is washing away. So I went to the town and got a permit to build a retaining wall. I got a heck of a deal on some granite and a friend of mine said he’d deliver it for free. I have my own tractor so I’m going to be able to move all of the granite down by the water and place it myself. It’s going to take me a couple of weekends to build.
It was extremely windy the other day and I didn’t have too much going, so I told my wife I was going to go fly my new kite that I got for my birthday. She just laughed, but as I was going out the door she asked if she could go with me. We went down to a big field by the school where there is lots of room and I took it out of the package. I forgot to mention that is was a six foot airplane, shaped like a jet! As soon as I launched it it started climbing and climbing and climbing! I was impressed by how quickly it got up in the air! We played with it for probably an hour. Now I wasn’t paying much attention, and the wind was blowing and my wife was saying something, but I couldn’t hear her. So she finally tapped me on the shoulder and I leaned over so I could hear what she was saying. She was saying “look, look!” So I looked over and she was pointing, there were about six cars parked beside the road, watching me fly the kite! As I looked a little closer, one of the cars had some kids in it and they had gotten out and were standing in front of the car, watching the kite. I felt pretty good about that! I flew the kite for probably about another half hour, because I had other things to do. When I finally brought the kite in, the kids seemed kinda disappointed. I don’t think they had ever seen a kite that big! As soon as we get another windy day I hope I’m not too busy because I want to fly it again; it was great!