Vacation Time
Posted on May 6th, 2008 By scott at 7:56 pm (All, Two legs)
I’m on vacation. I needed a break from the Accounting department in a big way and it seemed this week was the only one available to me for quite some time. Busy times at work.
Today, I decided to pull the trigger on purchasing a proper grass trimmer. I spend too much, but I needed to gain control. Sadly, I suck and trimming around trees, stumps and rocks. I sucked at it when I was 16 too. Anyway, I went with a near-professional model. I have finally realized that purchasing suburban tools is a waste of money.
Included with my purchase was a fancy compound limb cutter. I put it to good use. I clipped low hanging limbs in the front yard. When Robinson returned from the office, I proudly showed off my work.
She got a sad look on her face when she saw what I had done to our pear tree. Apparently it will no longer bear fruit. Damn. She said the yard looked better though.
I did do one thing right today: I recycled one computer and three monitors. And, I delivered the dry sink to Goodwill. Nothing makes Robinson happier than seeing my old computer junk carted out the door.
Between the pickup and new-to-me Toro garden tractor, I am getting some serious work done on the yard. I still have Kubota envy… maybe fantasy. As I mow the lawn, I see so many places a compact tractor with all the attachments would help me converge reality and fantasy. It also wouldn’t hurt to have a half-dozen stumps ground to pulp.
Robinson said,
May 6, 2008 at 8:26 pm
It’s not that it won’t bear fruit, it’s that we won’t be able to reach it. Check out the orchard trees at that place in Richland and you will know of what I speak. Of course, I never would have put a tree that I wanted for fruit in the spot that pear tree is in and I’ve had better pears.
And the front yard looks really great.