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Happy Father's Day, Randy, and to all the dads out there. Wish I could capture in print the cave man noise Tim makes on Home Improvements!
If it makes you feel any better, Randy, I bought one of those cool, light weight, easy to use mops with the pads you can toss and the cleaning stuff in a bottle attached to the mop that feeds the fluid directly to the floor. Now my husband expects me to use it on a regular basis, especially when I track garden gunk into the house.
I kinda thought he might want to use it once in a while, so it was really a gift for him. (0:

You guys--er--and girls--are a riot! Gifts are gifts! The recipient should be able to do with them what they choose and when. Alas and alack, the giver has expectations. It reminds me of my mother who knitted lots of sweaters and always looked forward to all family members showing up wearing those sweaters! She would always ask, "do you ever wear such-and-such sweater?" Some I honestly did, some not so much. I don't wear them now, but I still have some of the beautiful ones she made. Of course, mops and edgers aren't quite the same, I suppose. :-)

Happy Father's Day!

OKC1

My wife wants one of those. I might need to go get her one for "Day After Fathers Day" and put her to work too :-).

We did need a new edger. What I loved about the property the first time we saw it was how the house was set back a little over 300Â from the street. I still like that feature, but see it as a little more work now.

randy

Randy,

Seems to me like a man's time would be better spent standing near his grill, cooking up a wonderful meal!
And, that way, your spouse doesn't have to cook. What could be better?

We have an edger, too, but since it is not raining this year in southern Oklahoma, and the grass is dying instead of growing, there is nothing to edge. So, you see, there is an upside to drought!

Happy edging,

Dawn

Dawn

We just got back from Arbuckle Lake. Last night I whipped up an Asian marinade for Tuna steaks. I then rolled them in Sesame seed and grilled them at my parentÂs house. I did the manly grill work and my better half did the indoor salad veggie stuff. It was fun going there and fixing them a meal for once.

IÂll fire up the edger again tomorrow :-).

randy

Now I recently bought a new weedeater and if anyone would like to try it out?????????? That is the one job that I really don't like doing. Looks good when done but I am in shower washing off the itches by then.
Sorry to say it but up here in north central Ok we have had a week of rain and am glad to have a few days without the lightening/thunder/tornados/damaging winds.
Oh, just got a new chain and bar for chainsaw if anyone feels like removing the big limb,(half a maple tree) that is hanging horizontally, about 8 feet off the ground in my back yard. I can't pull start the saw. sigh, hate being broken. I can use it though if someone starts it for me. Off the subject, my purple smoke tree was outstanding this year.

Broken lady

Now weed eating is a different story for me. I put on the long pants, hooded long sleeve tee, and the old work boots. Strap on the chest harness and grab the full-face shield headgear. Take that big honkin Honda weed eater with the .155 mm string or saw blade attachment and reek havoc and destruction everywhere I go. Life doesnÂt get any better than that.

I guess it speaks to the primitive man in me. ThatÂs a heck of a lot more fun than manicuring my driveway :-).

The knight in cotton armor taming the wild creek that runs through his domain.

Well, I just bought a new person-powered sling blade, to go along with the person-powered push mower I bought earlier this year, so I don't have to worry about the pull starting and the noise of those edgers. My neighbor has one, though, and sure likes to use it. The itchies have definitely started, haven't they?

Randy--I am relieved to hear you were doing the manly job of "grill duty" instead of edging. I hope you enjoyed your visit with your folks. And have fun taming the wild creek. Our creek is untamed and its banks are snake city.

Broken lady, Don't you hate the itchies? I'd almost rather let the lawn look wild than to come inside and have to deal with all that itching. Rain? Lucky you. I'm glad y'all got some rain, though. It would be nice if the rain would come without the companion wind damage and tornadoes though. Virtually all the rain missed us, but we had lots of thunder, lightning and wind.

OKPrairie, All that person-powered equipment is going to build some muscle, isn't it? I like that it is non-polluting. Our air quality down here in the middle of nowhere is pretty bad here lately...hazy/smoggy looking a lot of the time. Some of it is dust, I think, as we are so moisture-deficient, but I think some of it is "yucky stuff" blowing up into southern Oklahoma from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where the air seems to look bad all the time during the summer.

Today I am going to be doing veggie and flower garden stuff, but tomorrow will be mowing and edging. It seems to be neverending, doesn't it?

Dawn

You girls are going to fool around and hurt my poor little feelings. I have a whole garage full of those brand new hi tech "California safe" gas powered toys that pollute far less combined than my old worn out pickup truck.

And I havenÂt even got to talk about my Echo PB-200 blower yet. You know, the one you can hear two miles away, downwind in the middle of a thunderstorm. But IÂm sensitive to the few neighbors I have that can hear it. It never gets fired up until about daylight. A guys gotta see what heÂs doinÂ, you know.

randy

I'm sorry, Randy. Didn't mean to hurt your feelings. I understand that some people like all that gas powered, noisy stuff. I have a houseful of college boys across the street who are always tinkering with something. For me, the main thing is I don't like it when they don't work because I am single and don't have anyone to fixt them for me. Also - I really don't like the smell of gas on my hands. Give me good old dirt if I'm going to get my hands dirty. Ya gotta admit those edgers make an annoying sound, though. But I can be tolerant.

okprairie

No need to voice concern over my feelings. If that starts happening too much here, IÂll end up expecting it around the house too :-).

This whole thread has been about poking fun at myself and my need for more things. More things with power! More things that make noise! More things that drown out my wifeÂs voice when she's telling me to carry out the trash :-).

randy

LOL Randy!

WindsurfGirl

Hey, you are more than welcome to come try out those new power tools at my house :) I can't even figure out my weedeater, so I edge with a flat-edge shovel! I had a lovely, lovely neighbor who used to come edge my lawn when he got done doing theirs, but they moved on and the renters that are in the house now aren't near as friendly.

Lisa

I have noticed that since we built the garage extra-large with lots of 'extra' storage space, we are accumulating lawn and garden 'equipment' at a very rapid rate to fill that space! It must be a man thing. Now that my DH has put a pool table and mini-refrigerator in a corner of his garage/barn, he and my son are out there all the time (and they aren't necessarily using all the power equipment, either!).

I'm not complaining, though. When they are in the garage, the house is quieter! Frankly, I can't imagine how we'd ever maintain even just a few acres without all that power equipment stuff. I stick to the basics, like a simple lawn mower and weed-eater. And, of course, I use my Mantis cultivator/edger, and my human-powered hand-pruners and lopping shears! I leave the bigger stuff, like the riding mower and the DR-type field and brush mower, and the chain saw, to my DH and DS to use (that is, to use when they aren't busy playing pool).

I don't like most of the power stuff because I either can't start it, or don't know how to fix it if it stops working. With our nearest neighbor about 1/4 mile away in any direction, we can use noisy power equipment all day long and it doesn't bother anyone though! I really like that.

Long, long ago I learned that the only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys! Isn't that the truth!!!!!

Loving this thread--it is very entertaining.

Dawn

Lisa

If you lived next door, I would be honored to do it for you.

Dawn, you got it Lady! City boys I know for the most part have their sports toys and country boys have their rural combat equipment. ItÂs still the guy with the best toys wins. Still havenÂt figured out what he wins, thatÂs probably not too important. You donÂt see too much of the agony of defeat stuff in this game, just green with envy. When you been one upped, itÂs time to do some uppin of your own :-).

Since IÂve been a good boy this year so far, my better half has hinted a certain good boy she knows might get a DR type field and brush mower for Christmas/ birthday. I like to make big purchases like that out of season if I can. You can end up saving a little money that way, especially if they are stuck with some in inventory over the dead part of the season that might be better turned into cash invested elsewhere. We saved some on our ZTR by saving up over the year and paying cash. I havenÂt really looked at them yet, but will start researching this summer. Any advice you or anyone else might add would be appreciated.

randy