Mowing The Lawn @ MindSay 
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Nope not on your car but your lawn mower, tiller, and don't forget to check your weed eater mix!
Okay so I need to put "more" activety into my exersies. Not a problem for this summer. I'll try to take some pictures of my lawn today and post so you can see what I am push mowing this summer. I am going out today and mowing some more of my lawn. The goal today is to get the entire lawn mowed around the house so all I have to do tomorrow on Randy's day off is to mow the area's around the barns and sheds and up the drive.
That will work right into my walking program of walking for a half hour or 1 mile (if I remember correctly) I have to bust out my program yet. And since Randy will be home sometime this afternoon, if he gets home in time instead of irritating me and making me stop what I am doing he can go get the kids from school. If he does that for me then I can finish up and then get the kids outside with their Chucks and we can work on our free style moves for the tourny this weekend. I can also clean up their forms a bit more for the tourny and testing also. All three of us earned our detail strip last night and the kids earned their sparring stripe also. Mr. Johnson didn't realize I needed my sparring strip also but that is okay at the Adult class I realized I OVER protect my face and head and kept leaving my ab and sides open. Mr. Jones took me aside and showed me a technique on how to keep my abs and side protected. So Friday I will get my Sparring strip.
The details we had to have down were our punches (strong and don't forget the kias aka yells), the double round house kicks with out putting your foot down, and balance. Mr. Johnson realizes even though my knees feel a LOT better I still dont' have great balance so he is giving me some leeway on that but then realized with this current form I only really need to make sure I don't loose my balance on the inside creseant kick turning immeditaly into a side kick. So he took me aside after I earned my detail strip and showed me a couple of exersies I can do this week to get some more balance so I am ready for the tourny on Saturday.
Sorry we did TKD last night, this blog is actually about some tips about how to maintain your lawn equipment if your like me and have no real help. Luckily I grew up with a small engines/machinest as a Daddy so that helps Randy out not having to worry about thigns when he is gone.
With my new lawn mower I didn't have to clean otu the old gas and oil but if you don't have a new lawn mower, make sure you drain out the old gas and oil from your lawn mower. Doesn't matter if you have a push mower or riding lawn mower. If you hear it sounding ruff, before you go taking it to the mechanic, do a lil TLC yourself. Open up that engine and replace those spark plugs, clean out the fuel filter and blow out the engine with air. Loose dirt and other stuff can make it sound ruff and blowing it out will help out. If you are feeling more advantrous, get yourself a small engines mechanic manual and do some more TLC. I fully admit that is about as far as I go on the TLC (OKAY-also know how to adjust the throttal and open up the carb and clean that out also but don't ask me to explain it!) After doing some minor TLC on your mower, it still runs ruff take it to the mechanic. Don't forget to make the mechanic's life and your life a bit easier and get those blades off to either be replaced or sharpened. I usually have three sets of blades for my lawn mower (have to buy two more sets yet for my new mower). It makes it easier to keep your lawn neater if your blades are sharp and not nicked up.
Now with your tiller, this is a lil bit more engine work but YOU CAN DO IT!:D TLC again drain out the old gas and oil and put new in. Change those spark plugs and find those filters to clean out or even replace. Don't be afraid to oil the various parts to make those tines spine easier and if you can take those tines off and go get them sharpened. I do strongly suggest taking your tiller into a small engines mechanic for the bigger TLC if you aren't like me and have a Daddy that can come up and use your tools to bust that bad boy open when it goes down! Randy doesn't even mess with the tiller engine cause he doesn't have the paitence.
Weed eaters are pretty easy for the up keep and on a side note not worth trying to get the small engine working again if it goes out. Just go buy a new one. But go ahead and drain the old gas/oil mix out and put new in, put new string in, and change that spark plug. Now for those of you new to over all lawn care, weed eaters do NOT use gas and oil in seperate compartments do NOT put straight gas in. Make sure you get small engines mix and get yourself a small 2 or 5 gallon gas can and mark it weed eater/chainsaw (that is what is on ours) and make up your weedeater and chainsaw "gas". That way you NEVER make the mistake of putting straight gas into either weedeater or chainsaw and you don't make the mistake of putting the gas mix into your lawn mower or tiller which can ruin their engines!
Okay now I am off. I am staying in my Marilynn Monro Jam Jam's to take the kids to school and then I am coming home, taking clothes off the line, doing a fast pick up of the kitchen, and then putting work clothes on to get my lawn going!
Have a great day!
As if we women don't have enough to worry about! Thanks to the easy accessiblity of porn, we women are now almost overly concerned with the grooming of our nether regions!
Marilyn Monroe made sure her curtains matched her drapes. Most women at least trim the hedges and some of us just throw caution to the wind and take a Brazillian approach. Some women compromise and leave a little reminder that they've actually reached puberty and leave a little racing stripe.
When you think about it, this type of upkeep is a bit ridiculous. Since the beginning of time, men have been facinated with women's feminine cores. They've never seemed to mind risking the possiblity of getting tangled in it's wild yet beguilling clutches. This is why I was a bit taken aback by an admission made by a friend of mine who was telling me about his new girlfriend. He told me that she was smart, beautiful, self-reliant and easy to talk to. He said he liked the fact that she was a size 16 and not another liposuctioned, over aerobicised, fembot. I was thrilled. "Finally!" I thought. "He's hit the jackpot." Then he went on to say, "The only thing that bother's me is well, she's um...all natural down there."
"Well, I certainly hope so!" I replied, "You wouldn't want that to be fake would you?"
"No," he said. She doesn't really trim the hedges. I kinda prefer it to be clean shaven."
"Considering the fact that it is her vagina, don't you think that's really up to her?"
"Yeah, but, I don't know. I was just wondering if there was a way I could bring it up without offending her."
"Well damn, man! Does it bother you enough to keep you from having sex with her?"
"No."
"Case closed."
So, is there a way to for him to bring the issue up without him looking like a tool? Don't get me wrong, I'm being completely hypocritical because I've fallen into the grooming trap myself. I won't get into graphic details, but I will say....nahh, nevermind.
my dad wants me to mow lawns with him. and i didn't want to say it, but dude. no. i'm not mowing lawns? jesus. do i look mexican to you? jeez. but it is a lot of money involved. but really. mowing lawns? i mean. gah. someone's going to ask what job i have and i'll say 'mowing lawns with my dad'. holy crap good one becca. fucking poor or what? who the hell mows lawns? people can mow their own lawn. for free. and i don't even know how to work a lawn mower.
i told him i'd think about it though. seeing as there is a whole lot of money involved.
and i've decided on doing basketball managing instead of winter track. i'm thinking i'll help more people managing basketball than running winter track. but i'm still somewhat split.
1. i know nothing about basketball. but i just want to help any way i can.
2. girls' basketball or boys'? at first this wasn't even a thing. but then a friend asked me which one i'd be doing and i was like wow i could do boys' basketball. but then i was like wait a minute what's wrong with doing girls'? but i don't know. boys' could be a lot more fun, simply because they're guys. but then again, i'd rather be on a bus full of chicks, you know. ;-)
and that's what's up now.
Well, I just finished mowing the front lawn way ahead of when I thought I would be. Makes me think I missed a bit. A big bit, possibly some kind of dark corner where triffids are planning a take-over in the most gruesome way possible. Of course, there still is the backyard to do, the jungle like backyard where the grass is high enough to potentially be decendants of the Sarlacc from starwars (A big pit monster with lotsa teeth for you non-geeks), but I'm banking that'll take several several hours seeing as it's 4 times higher then the 2 inch front lawn. I should put a sign up; "Trespassers beware, Triffids may live here".
I should probably get before and after shots... possibly of me as well to see how much of me is eaten by the plant life when I'm finished. I wish the trash pack people would come tomorrow morning and take it away too. Last time it sat festering for months, not that there was anything in it to fester, I just like the word. This is mainly so I can store the triffids somewhere safe so they don't consume the local wildlife after I mow them all down. It's been so long since the trash pak people were around I've forgotten who they are so I can't call them. Guess I can just use plastic bags otherwise, I mean, plastic restrained magneto for a while so why couldn't it do the same for potentially ravenous plant life? I think in three weeks time I'll hire a big skip and inform my neighbours so everyone can chuck crap they don't want anymore in. Seeing as there is no way I'll have enough crud to fill even the smallest skip! I also need to goto a gardening store and get some of taht super-plant-posion so I can kill a whole heap of horrid plant life, namely the triffids bigger-badder brothers that have taken up residence on the far side of the garage. So much so that I think a puma might be living there.
I guess I should shower and groom, because I smell, like freshly chopped triffid youngin and if I don't get rid of the smell their parents might come after me. Oh yea, and also for work seeing, seeing as I deal with a bunch of labourer-working class folk I should at least smell better then them. Although on the other hand I did my parents lawn yesterday in exchange for borrowing the lawnmower to do mine, so I smell from that too. I wouldn't be surpised if an army of mutanous ravenous plant life is on the way to my house for chopping up their smaller, less threatening cousins, grass.
I actually think I could get into gardening... well the sort where I trim and generally maim and destory plants. I could be a superheor in the fight against long grass and weeds. My arch enemy could be the thorn or something of the pointy sort. I'd be much better at that then the whole, growing a flower thing. Speaking of which though, I should plant the seeds I got given earlier this year. They're snap dragon seeds. I like snap dragons. Despite the name they dont' bite and they're kinda pretty.
-- Lory
It is way too late to be up. I am anyway so I might as well blog.
Today it is supposed to rain. I plan on mowing the lawn before it does. The guy who does mow my lawn every two weeks stopped by this afternoon. I was vacuuming the house in a t-shirt and boxers when he knocked on the door. I was right behind the door and he could see me though the doors window so I opened it. I felt like an idiot. Luckily I did not fall out.
He stopped by to ask me if I wanted to sell my Miata. I really do not want to since I need to have some vehicle to take the dog in and if I want to go bike riding someplace. But hey, money talks. If I need to, I can go and buy a beat up ole pick up truck to do those things. So I told him that the car needed a valve job but if he wanted it I would sell if for $1500.00. He was asking for someone else who was wanting to buy it for his granddaughter. I will not go below my price since I do not need to sell it. Yeah it needs some work but I have a $1000.00 in the car stereo alone not to mention the Eagle GT tires and the British Racing Green paint job both of which I put on it last year as well.
I would miss the car. I bought it new off of the dealer lot in 1995. It has been wrecked, towed, gone through hail storms, had sex in it, different systems installed, new tops, new tires, new paint, engine overhauled, cracked and replaced head, new clutch, new water pump. Now that I think about it, this car was a cash cow. Maybe it would be a good idea to sell it. It looks good, though.
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