BS: Old lessons relearned...

Subject: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 10:30 PM

Seems that we most of us have to relearn old lessons...

Today I relearned that a Kubota 3650 farm tractor can not outrun an angry hornet...

Got me on the back of my left arm...

Ouch!!!

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 11:41 PM

Another old lesson I've learned over and over is not to trust or believe other drivers. I'm the only good driver on the road.

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 01:29 AM

Lesson learned - every year I resolve that I will get out early and deal with the weeds in the garden, so next year's bed preparations will be easier. And I never manage it.

Someone (we don't know who) said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results." So each year I look at my garden and hope that I'll finish the work and leave it easier to approach next year. But shit happens, it gets hot, and there's always tomorrow.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: fat B****rd
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 05:00 AM

With you completely gardenwise, SRS. Despite the winter etc I could have been out doing the necessary.
One never learns, does one?. Oh well, manana

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: kendall
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 12:45 PM

How do I teach my flowers to not bloom until after the last full Moon in May? Stupid Tulips.

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 12:50 PM

A bit like teaching Seamus to heal. Tulips bloom early. Plant bachelor buttons.

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 12:53 PM

kendall, there are some types of tulips that flower very late, for example the frilly 'parrot' style ones.

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: gnu
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 01:04 PM

Kendall... keep them from getting much water, if you can. Works for me. I only have one that is ready to open. All of the others aren't gonna flower until at least a week after May 5.

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 01:26 PM

SRS: Someone (we don't know who) said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."
Aparently it's Einstein
Or, to quote the Beatles: "Any old iron, any old iron, any any any old Einstein" (Yellow Submarine, the movie)

Cheers

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: frogprince
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 08:41 PM

"a Kubota 3650 farm tractor can not outrun an angry hornet..."

That's your idea of an old lesson? You gotta be kidding me!
An old lesson is that a Farmall H, or a John Deere 60, can't outrun an angry hornet (or a Hudson Hornet).

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 08:57 PM

A few years ago, someone in my apartment house killed himself & ruined his apartment by smoking in bed.

What does the fire marshall say when he lectures the schoolchildren?

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 09:04 PM

Well, let's see, f-prince... You have just run over a hornets nest on your Farmall, Ford 8-N or my Kubota... What, you gonna just gonna get off it 'nlet them have the tractor, too??? Heck no, you ain't...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: frogprince
Date: 01 May 12 - 03:09 PM

Hey, I din't say you wun't talking about a valid lesson, I jest cudn't see that, jest th' way you were expozziting it, it cud be called an old lesson.

Subject: RE: BS: Old lessons relearned...
From: gnu
Date: 02 May 12 - 02:32 PM

The hornets will attack whatever attacked them becuase when a hornet is killed it releases a pheromone that incites other hornets to attack whatever that pheromone is on. One good reason not to kill a hornet that is on you if you can brush it off.

In any case, park the tractor and run.