Its a bit unusual for this time of year that I was out on the golf course yesterday, but it was 65 degrees out there. My pal Ron really wanted to play, and I had no good reason not to, so we teed 'em up. No money changed hands...meaning that we both played poorly enough to finish in a tie. My back survived.
I still had plenty of time when I got back home to finish picking up leaves and mowing my back yard. As a bonus, I noticed a half-bag of weed 'n feed lawn fertilizer in the garage as I was putting the mower away, and did an application to stop the advance of some broad-leaf weeds that are coming over from the neighbor's yard in the back.
I have almost twenty bags of leaves for the city to pick up later this week. Most of these are attributable to a couple of big trees in a neighbor's yard two houses to my West. All the while I'm raking, I'm thinking what a useless endeavor I'm being required to effort simply because of this guy's trees. There's my time. There's an out-of-pocket cost. Really an irritant. There oughta be a law.
One bright point of the experience was that, after having a bit of an ineffective time of it with the leaves around my front bushes in Act I on Saturday afternoon, I found/discovered/remembered the yard vacuum/blower that I had in my garage. (Another example of CRS. I'm sure it has been years since it was last used.) So I was able to go in and suck all the leaves in the hard-to-get place in both the back and front yesterday. Its a loud tool, but it is efficient.
It was a year ago this past weekend that we had the clan gathering in LV to remember Aunt Martha. Lots of water under the bridge since then. I miss her.
Internet Explorer is evil. Just sayin'.
For the record, I don't think climate change is on the radar screen of the jihadists. I don't think that the Left would have any problem naming them as Christian radicals if they came from a murderous segment of the that religion. And "vetting" hundreds of thousands of immigrants is a pipe dream. Leading from behind ain't gonna cut it.
Make it a good week in your neighborhood.
BCOT
No comments:
Post a Comment