I hate the summer. All that sunlight makes one want to get things done.
I added a drip irrigation system to my wife’s planter box (hopefully a write up to come), found out my Orpington’s are very, very tame. Sit on your shoulder as you walk around the yard tame. Which is weird. I never thought a chicken could be a pet. If anyone is thinking of keeping a couple chickens for giggles, I’d highly recommend them. I’ve had all kinds of birds, banties that attacked me when I fed them too slow, plymouth rocks as a kid that I think were directly descended from dinosaurs (evil effin birds I tell you what), and rhode island reds. I actually have some rhode island reds because I want a plethora of eggs, they are fairly docile, but not like the Orpingtons.
Anyway, here’s something that’s always made me happy, and something I use from time to time to set my mood for the day. Plus this is a great song to have stuck in your head.
This is sort of how I used to view people at rummage sales. Not the idea of people looking for bargains, it was more the attitudes of the people at the sales, the strange competitive nature of people comes out in strange ladies pawing through dead people’s things for a bargain and being brusque with their fellow humans and bargaining over nickels and dimes.
If you’ve ever held a yard sale you know this mentality. “How much is this Picasso? A dollar you say? Will you take 13 cents?” I love bargains, love them a lot, but for the love of Zombies, seriously. There’s some etiquette to the process, there’s got to be. Don’t make an insulting offer on something. If it’s a bargain, a real bargain, then take it for what it is. If the price could use a little paring, make a respectable offer.
I love yard sales, garage sales, rummage sales, flea markets and second hand stores. I once watched bitchy over-weight woman run her face to her husband in those horrible, horrible, tones only woman such as she could generate, about how a $20 Original NES game (more…)
So here’s the skinny in case some of you are unlucky enough to had to mow sometime this summer.
All that dead grass that gets stuck between the mower body and the mower can get really hot. A lawn mower has an air-cooled motor, meaning there’s no liquid cooling system like in your car. (more…)
This is sort of how I used to view people at rummage sales. Not the idea of people looking for bargains, it was more the attitudes of the people at the sales, the strange competitive nature of people comes out in strange ladies pawing through dead people’s things for a bargain and being brusque with their fellow humans and bargaining over nickels and dimes.
