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Draconigena

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Hey Dale, don't know if you even saw it, but post #8702 (couple pages back) pictures were just for you.

It was 92 °F (33 °C) here today, so after voting in the state primary, I did more pruning in "the orchard," but, besides hurting my shoulder again, it was just too damn hot and humid for me to pick up another four or six trailer loads of limbs. Evening thunderstorms and high winds cooled things considerably, so maybe I can get it all picked up tomorrow.
 

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Hey Dale, don't know if you even saw it, but post #8702 (couple pages back) pictures were just for you.

It was 92 °F (33 °C) here today, so after voting in the state primary, I did more pruning in "the orchard," but, besides hurting my shoulder again, it was just too damn hot and humid for me to pick up another four or six trailer loads of limbs. Evening thunderstorms and high winds cooled things considerably, so maybe I can get it all picked up tomorrow.
Sorry, didn't read past messages....I'll check it out.
 

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I didn't mow today, although at 90 °F (32 °C if you're in Canada, England, Australia or some other metric country) that would have been easier on my old tired broken body. I cut lots of limbs and carted them off to the brush pile - the same brush pile that can be seen from space. I'm saving all those limbs for future kindling. Probably have 100 years worth by now. Anyway, between reaching too high to cut dead limbs (remember the bad left rotator cuff shit) and dancing around picking up and filling the trailer, then emptying it and going back for more (remember the broken back BS) four times today after all that cutting (see pics below), I am absolutely beat tonight.

OK, here's the pix because some silly part of me says maybe Dale needs to see the trailer attachment before he gets his EC container totally filled. This obviously is a street-legal trailer (bed is 4'x8') and uses a standard hitch, but I pull it with my lawn tractor by inserting this neat little hitch gizmo in between.
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Here's a close-up, Dale:
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These gizmos are intended to allow you to move/position a trailer by hand in your driveway, but I adapted mine (larger tires for muddy areas - they came off an old riding mower) and attached an old tie-down strap so I can use the hook on one end to slip into that little towing hole at the back of the riding mower. This way the mower pulls the trailer, but you do need to reach around behind you with one hand and hold the handle up a couple inches so the parking foot doesn't dig a gouge in your lawn. I don't know what the current price might be (about $50 maybe?) because I've had this thing for ages.

And here's the empty trailer in the trees, ready for another load. I cut four trailer loads today. Probably have another 20 to go to properly prune these trees and pick up all the storm damage.
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Once I get all the limbs out of here that have been whacking me in the face, I can mow this again.
Lookin good, Rich. Although it looks like the grass and trees have gotten the best of you.....:teehee:
 

Jimi

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Evening Rich, I don't blame you for giving `er up on the branches I had a mild heat stroke working in the garden a few days ago, it was 97 and dead calm, didn't think I was going to get in the house before passing out.
 

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Squonkamaniac
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Evening Rich, I don't blame you for giving `er up on the branches I had a mild heat stroke working in the garden a few days ago, it was 97 and dead calm, didn't think I was going to get in the house before passing out.
You get any rain yet, Jimi?
 

Draconigena

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Lookin good, Rich. Although it looks like the grass and trees have gotten the best of you.....:teehee:
Due to bodily injuries, I have not kept up with this place like I need to, but I am developing my stubborn streak once again, so I plan to do my damnedest to ignore my pains and catch up this summer and never let it get away from me again.
 

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Squonkamaniac
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Due to bodily injuries, I have not kept up with this place like I need to, but I am developing my stubborn streak once again, so I plan to do my damnedest to ignore my pains and catch up this summer and never let it get away from me again.
Was only kidding....I understand there are not enough hrs in a day.
 

Draconigena

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Evening Rich, I don't blame you for giving `er up on the branches I had a mild heat stroke working in the garden a few days ago, it was 97 and dead calm, didn't think I was going to get in the house before passing out.
Yeah, the temp, humidity and the fact that it was one of those very rare days -- dead calm -- that stopped me from finishing today. The thunderstorms tonight, however, brought high enough winds to bend the flag pole, so I had to take the flag down before the pole broke. If we had that wind earlier, it would have countered the humidity, so even with the recurrence of the shoulder pain, maybe I would have gotten it done. Tomorrow is a new day and I plan to "get 'er done" then.
 

Jimi

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Yeah When you get to the Old Phart status you really feel that kind of work, hell you feel all kinds of work
 

JuicyLucy

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I thought she said yesterday that she made a bid on a house through a bank and got it already.

Mr Juicy is in Hilo, I'm fixing to head there at 1 a.m. Thursday morning

My offer was conditionally accepted - now its waiting to see if the title company will actually insure it and I had to sign with a realtor to negotiate the weird excise tax (legally only seller is supposed to pay, but they want me to pay it on top of accepted offer price) etc etc

Its directly owned by a foreign bank and I'm in over my head on this one :confused:

It is still a work in progress and can still fall through anytime

Oh Ok I hope she has a safe and fun trip, hope i get to tell her that

Thanks Jimi :D
 

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Squonkamaniac
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Mr Juicy is in Hilo, I'm fixing to head there at 1 a.m. Thursday morning

My offer was conditionally accepted - now its waiting to see if the title company will actually insure it and I had to sign with a realtor to negotiate the weird excise tax (legally only seller is supposed to pay, but they want me to pay it on top of accepted offer price) etc etc

Its directly owned by a foreign bank and I'm in over my head on this one :confused:

It is still a work in progress and can still fall through anytime



Thanks Jimi :D
Any bank owned property is usually a nightmare, but if you get it, may be a great investment.
 

Draconigena

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Really I don't know
Once upon a time in a land far far away... long before I reached Old Phart status, I used to do something called a "road trip." I would get in my Trans Am (or whatever I was driving that year) and drive through 10 states, staying at motels and eating in restaurants (or, in the case of the Blazer days, pulling a travel trailer)... visiting every national park on the map, taking 30 rolls of 35mm film (now you know how long ago that was), all in the two weeks my company called a "vacation." Haven't been able to do that in so many years I can barely remember what it was like... Even if we didn't have all these animals to take care of, I no longer have the money to do it. One day at a time...
 

Jimi

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Mr Juicy is in Hilo, I'm fixing to head there at 1 a.m. Thursday morning

My offer was conditionally accepted - now its waiting to see if the title company will actually insure it and I had to sign with a realtor to negotiate the weird excise tax (legally only seller is supposed to pay, but they want me to pay it on top of accepted offer price) etc etc

Its directly owned by a foreign bank and I'm in over my head on this one :confused:

It is still a work in progress and can still fall through anytime



Thanks Jimi :D
HiYa Lucy how have you been my friend
 

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