The price of being sick
Normally I like to begin my yard work in mid May. The April showers have finished, the grass has been growing since mid February, and a mowing in mid May will usually last till early July for the meadow grass.Sadly, as some know, this year mowing in mid May was not an option for me. So some rains, some sun, some more rain..
Well today I decided to tackle it. OMG, some of the meadow grass is over 40 inches tall already. And while I was in the hospital the vines took over some of my windows and buried my poor hedges.
my side yard
My poor house
Did I mention my poor 1950s tractor with the 5' bush hog has a flat (original to the tractor, a Chief tire) tire and I am waiting on a new replica tire to arrive so I can mount it?
Fortunately I am both cleared for exercise, and I have a back up plan. A top of the line DR Field and Brush Mower.
So today I began attacking my side yard.
Hacking away
Here, the pesky vines have been dealt with, but work on the side yard is barely begun.
As sundown nears, the side yard is done. Note the tip of the DR sticking out. :)
Not done yet, acres of meadows on the other side and in front to go, but I am sure me and the DR can do it. Hoo Rah!
RS, I loved the ending of tonight's Game of Thrones. Dragon Power. :)
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Hire me! I'm good at making lemonade while you do the yard...
Nope! Wrong time of the month for you. Remember?...
Nothing like a bit of getting close to nature to get you back on your feet. So glad you're getting better now.
hope you are better now and all the best with the grass
it would have been great if it was weed and not just grass
do you want me to send you some seeds over
What I am looking at is a beautiful big garden full of
Maybe it also say you have to rest for while, good that you're ok now
And I like the side of country that you have there, quite & of course no traffic
Have a good day & good to know you're in here again
Every time I see one of these wooden houses overseas I get annoyed with our authorities. I wanted to build a wooden house a long time ago but the council refused point blank to approve the plans. The banks refused to finance them as well. Insuring them was another problem. We have very few wooden houses in SA. The de facto standard is bricks and mortar. I wonder if things have changed a bit since then.
Did you leave a piece of grass for your cats playing?
Hope everything goes well!
There is an implication in this I suspect that my Pancreas may be coming back on line. To what extent of course is yet to be determined. I still have 3 days before I am given an A1G and assigned a doctor (and yes, I will today buy a 2nd glucose tester (Walmart has some nice cheap ones for a comparison just in case the one they gave is giving fake readings (but with the sweats, wooziness, cramps, stumbling, etc. I doubt it) I can discuss things with, but clearly some things are changing inside me. LoL, I think we call this process healing.
All I can say is TG if I am right. Many employment aps in the US ask, do you have any of the following conditions, and many of the jobs I apply for are in the exempt class and allowed to discriminate and refuse to hire if any answer is yes.
Noting also many US states as well as the US Dept of Transportation have specific laws (or restrictions) pertaining to drivers licenses and Diabetes. Working it out last night (and also adding in all those jobs in places where bringing emergency snack food into an op center or clean room is verbotten) I think maybe at least 60% of doors tot jobs I have held are now suddenly slammed shut in my face. Grrrr.
Cat - in America, wooden buildings are very, very common. Obvious primary reason is the vast forests of suitable wood that have covered America since the early days of colonization. It was hundreds of years before settlers reached our plains states (similar to your Serengeti but bigger, or our desert country. Sure some stone (LoL, hostile fire arrow resistant) buildings were built back then and many old ones still stand, and brick is popular (but all brick is too expensive nowadays, so brick veneer is common) for building, but wood (and lately wood pulp pressed together and bound with glue) is our most common building type. A Victorian era house I grew up in (and all the others in the neighborhood too) was a mix of stone block (up to about the middle of the first floor and timber (no longer used in the US for fire reasons, and replaced by Platform construction technique).
Nidifugous - Been there, tried that. Waste of time. A riding mower bogs down the second it hits a 2 foot high Meadow grass or similar. Also their cuts are too narrow to do a 10 acre patch in less than a whole day. Truly a 5 to 15 foot Bush hog with a (true) 20 - 45 HP big tractor is the best way of coping with 12+ acres of meadow.
Did you just say I'm lazy? I'm a hard working person you know...I know how to cut grass too...on top of the fantastic lemonade!
We have horses on an area that size. It's nice to have room around the house, but it's a lot of work - if you have a full-time job, are sick or just get older.
I cut the ditch, planted veg and moved the lawn a couple of times - my future garden decorating plans involve a lorry load of gravel.
Get well soon and don't overdo it Ken.
Attn: all, my HD just started making weird noises. I am going offline to make a full TIB bu before it fails. May be awhile before that finishes.
Hey, don't work too hard man! Take some rest.. and have these rests.
I can totally appreciate what you are facing there with the tall grass...have seen commercials for the DR and it seemed to be one of the machines that made sense in taking care of taller grass/some brush. At the moment I am anticipating what kind of mower to get for my acreage and larger pasture area since the 42" cut mower I have had for 13 yrs has decided to become a part of the past history for mowing...bad timing of course, very seldom see anything with mowing that is good timing...so having to hire it done is not what I plan as permanent solution and have the definite intuition that this mower is not worth the expense of returning it to working condition...and for how long!Just hate going shopping for mower in prime mowing season! Such is life...
My opinion? Hold off a bit to look around and seek ye, either a Farmall A (or B, no bigger), or (best) an original International Harvester brand Cub Cadet (ignore the other brand named Cadets as the name was sold when International Harvester (IH) went bankrupt in 1982, so many cheap machines now carry the Cadet or Cub label) in running condition. Put a belly mower on it and you should (presuming reasonable maintenance) be happy for another 40 years. BTW, almost all IH parts are still available as they had a huge inventory when the died and Case purchased much of it and just tell the Case dealer the part number and $20 later, you have it. Cast iron forgings on the machines I named, with zero plastic anything.
My baby. Older than me. Currently temporarily down with a blown rear tire or else all of the meadows would have been finished by day two.
Let you know what I come up with.....Avias