BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 May 10 - 12:12 PM

Ah Bobbie. You insist on seeing problems where there are none. Do as you have always done - pick the crap up and put it out of the way. And if you bend three blades with your carelessness, don't blame P-Vine. She kept her part of the bargain.
I will never understand male logic.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 May 10 - 10:47 AM

Bobert ol' buddy, have you considered that she's only thinking about your health? This way you get the exercise you need; if you didn't have to get on and off that chair you use to cut the grass you wouldn't get any exercise at all.

See? She's saving you from a heart attack or something.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 01 May 10 - 10:33 AM

mauvepink: "We are women... we have double standards to live up to! ;-)
Just see how happy it makes you having something to moan about lol"

No truer words have been spoken!!!!!!!
Great post!!!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 01 May 10 - 09:37 AM

Great idea, Amos... Problem is that if I were to do that then seein' as the goats would eat the P-Vine's massive ornimental gardens that in doing so I'd be getting rid of her, too... That won't work... Might of fact, the next farm over is Mr. Wilson's goat farm and them critters are just on the other side of the fence from the P-Vine's gardens... Used to worry her sick that one would come over the fence as the sumabichs can get over 'um and it ain't rare to find one in my driveway but...

...so far, so good... But she has learned how to shoot the .410...

Goat meat, anyone???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Amos
Date: 01 May 10 - 08:52 AM

Wal, you could install a large bunch of sheep and goats. The sheep will eat the grass and the goats will eat the metal stuff...



A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 01 May 10 - 06:57 AM

Great ideas, folks... Well, the cow idea ain't 'cause other than 3 useless horses and four somewhat usefull cats we ain't got no cows here on this farm...

Yeah, Janie... In this case it's a riding mower which I have bypassed the kill-switch on the seat so I can, at least, get off the sumabich without havin' to restart it but I gotta disengage the power to the blades, take it out of gear and set the brake on it before gettin' off it... The do the same (in reverse) to resume mowing... Yes, it's a pain... BTW, you can tape the saftey bar to the handle on yer mower and that will allow it to run while yer doing something else... To kill it just take any tool with an insulated handle (like a shovel) and use the metal part to touch the end of the spark plug wire to ground (anything metal on the mower)...

As for swappin' jobs??? Shoot, this gal ain't getting on the tractor... I mean it, she ain't... That's men's work... lol... But, yeah, I have often thought about how she'd like it to have to deal with acreas of obsticles... The worst one was last year when I ran over one of those waterers that ya stick in the ground and it goes, "pfst, pfst, pfst" as it sprays a circle of water about 40 feet... That thing bent 2 of the three blades...

"Geeze, Honey, I'm so sorry..."

Ahhhhh, then how's about pickin' that stuff up when yer done then???

"Well, not that sorry..."

But I loves the gal... I sho nuff do... Maybe Amos's idea is the one... Just have Shatner's come mow with the BOBERT ENTERPRISE???

I donno... I'm so confused...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: mauvepink
Date: 01 May 10 - 06:43 AM

We are women... we have double standards to live up to! ;-)

Just see how happy it makes you having something to moan about lol

(somewhat tongue in cheek)

Have a lovely weekend in the garden!

;-)

mp

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 01 May 10 - 02:01 AM

Pour oil and vinegar on the lawn, and tell your cow to go out and graze, and tell her to watch out for shit she left in the yard, so she doesn't chip her last tooth!

Grinning,
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 May 10 - 01:07 AM

See? It isn't such a bad idea after all.

It's called Consequenses.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Janie
Date: 01 May 10 - 01:04 AM

...didn't finish...or the experience of all those stops and starts to deal with crap, including tools, left lying on the ground.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Janie
Date: 01 May 10 - 12:55 AM

Suggestion. (prob'ly a hard one) Swap jobs for a bit, and have her do the mowing a time or three. That might bring home that it is not only the destruction of tools, it is also all the stopping and starting, climbing onto and off the mower, etc. Assuming you are talking about a tractor or riding lawn mower, but it don't really matter. Havin' to stop a push mower to move stuff, then yanking that cord to start it up again is equally a pain-in-the-butt. There is nothing quite like the experience of running over a tool you yourself left on the ground, and hearing and seeing the tool, the mower, or both, mangled....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 10:55 PM

Ahem. I have a sad story to tell you; it's a story that's never been told...

When I was a kid and playing outdoors I often left my stuff out when I came inside the house at night or when rain threatened. You know why? Because I knew the brother just older than I (I had four brothers) would gather it up and bring it in.

I say: Just toss the stuff in the fencerow(s) and tell her that you saved it from harm.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 10:54 PM

Impound and then charge her a quarter per item to get it back! I get pure D Bloody H**L if I don't pick up the dog toys before he mows let alone tools!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 10:35 PM

If you cannot run over it, safely, which you can't, I would throw it away. My grandson is learning it is a safety issue that he pick up after himself in the yard precisely because of the danger from running over something and having it fly out and hit someone, etc. My mom and dad both taught us to pick up after ourselves as we went about our work, esp. when cooking in the kitchen and, in dad's case, when welding and other outside work.

IF you want to preserve your life, impound them and/or find some kind of portable, on wheels?, catch-all, she can keep handy for tossing the stuff in, but she HAS to keep it picked up! How the heck does she find it when she needs it next?

Good luck!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 09:31 PM

Last year, Rap... I hit so many of them that it seems that I didn't go a month withut having to buy new bladees that were hopelessly bent... Ahhhh, not to mention, her tools and stuff...

What's the BOBERT ENTERPRISE, Amos??? That some kinda spaceship with a mower deck, 'er what???

I donno... But I do know that just running over the stuff hasn't worked... And pleading hasn't worked... And reasoning hasn't worked... So I figurated that impound might work...

Kinda reminds me of back in the early 70's when I went back to college and I moved in with a bunch of stoners and, man, these guys never washed a dish and the kitchen was a serious mess so I threw all the dishes, pots and apns out in the back yard and put up a sign that read "Don't spit on the soup, we've all got to eat (lyndon Johnson), Wash your fucking dishes (me)"... Hey, it worked with the stoners... Kinda a little behavior mod thing... And they thanked me fir it... Well, not immediately, mind yoy, but....

Hey, I like the "impound" idea...

My other idea was to just take the stuff and hide it where she thinks someone came and stole it??? But people don't come back here and she'd know I had the stuff... But that's still in the running...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 09:10 PM

Run over them. No problem. I mean, you wouldn't get off the tractor to pick up a skunk, would you? Of course not! Just run over them like you would the skunk.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Amos
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 08:17 PM

The BOBERT ENTERPRISE boldly goes where no man has dared to go before him....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: beardedbruce
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 08:17 PM

Foolish Bobert!


Haven't you learned that there are two sets of rules of behaviour- those YOU must follow, and those SHE has the option of following when it suits her???

Subject: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 08:15 PM

Okay, seems that every time I gotta go out and mow the grass I find myself gettin' off and on the tractor about 5 zillion times to pick up stuff that the P-Vine has left where she last used it... Immean, like garden tools and hoses and plastic planters and chairs and, and...

Now don't get me wrong, I loves the gal but it drives me crazy... Her gardening mentor, no matter when we just stop in to see here, never leaves stuff out...

So I was thinking of taking the stuff to an "impound" area... You know, like my tool shed where I could just lock it up fir a few days until she signed a staement that she would not leave that particular item out again???

I mean, this sounds like I'm tryin' to be some control freek but it ain't that at all... She asks me to keep my clothes put away and I do that so why not the same consideration for garden stuff???

And, yes, I have asked her but it ain't gettin' fixed...

B~

(Yer gonna get the blast fir this one, Boberdz...)

Well, okay... I might....