Wednesday’s weather was a repeat of Tuesday: Warm, windy and with low humidity.
I had to get gas at lunchtime (my low fuel light had come on). The price was still shocking ($35 bucks and it didn’t fill up the tank?) but a lot better than it was.
After work, I scanned in some old photos and then had to crop them and create .jpeg files. I promised Erin (Leon’s daughter) I would email them to her as she never knew B___ and I sang at her Mother and Father’s wedding. I’ll send them in the morning.
I had to laugh. It’s been quite a while, but I have had women write their phone numbers on a bar napkin. But, I never had someone write down their email address on one. It’s a brave, new world, I guess.
Then I went out and cut the back lawn with the tractor. The low humidity (34%) meant that the grass just blew away instead of clumping up (thank God). I even went over the one half of the lawn to blow the grass clippings to the fence (I cut the lawn like my Dad showed me how to plow a field).
Would you believe it, I hit that damn stump again and it stalled the mower! But, when I checked, the blade seemed okay. I finished up and went inside for the night, about 8:30 PM.
I made a salad for dinner and watched a little TV. Then I went to bed at about 10:00 PM.
Now you have me wondering how did Grandpa show you how to plow a field?? Is this different from how a person would cut a lawn???
ReplyDeleteUmmm, I dunno! I have never cut the lawn in any different way. What you do is go around the outside exactly four times with your tractor (be it a lawn tractor or my old big Minneapolis-Moline tractor, pulling a plow or a wide-ass disc). I don't know why four is the magic number (but it is).
ReplyDeleteThen you go exactly down the middle and you start to go up one side and down the other (on the edge on one side and down the middle on the other, making your turns on the now plowed (or mowed) four turns. This gets you perfect straight lines in the field (or the lawn).
If you are wondering where the exact middle is, you pace it out, divide by two and decide on a visual sign at the end of the field (or the lawn). Does it turn out always perfect?
No, but it's pretty damn close.
That's just one of the things my Dad taught me.
Always have your kids cut the lawn. That's just one of the things my Dad taught me.
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