My weekend

[Wolfman]

You need some time off in some place warm with maybe palm trees. Mid life issues? Been there, done that.

[Toddowen]

At least you mowed the grass. I meant to today but decided to lose several hundred dollars on the horses and BJ {no...not a blow job, unfotunately}

And now I sit here thinking it too late and dangerous to get my drink on.

[War Wagon]

the day I pay somebody to mow my grass is the day you can bury me. Nobody touches my yard but me. I spent all day yesterday and today, "unfucking" it, as you not so colorfully described. Scotts weed and feed and the dandelions ain't so fucking proud anymore.

as for the race, Kevin "Happy" Harvick won and that makes me happy.

Bowled in a tournament tonight and shot a 712 series, missing a 300 the last game after the first 11 because I choked and left the greek church in the 12th frame. But I still cashed.

Feel great, it's been a great weekend. Back to the salt mines tomorrow.

[smackaholic]

Well, needless to say, I did not "unfukk" my yard!

Actually, it's been so fukking cold this year, nothing has really started growing yet, but a few sunny 70 plus degree days over the last wek should take care of that. I spent the better part of the weekend at CB's boy scout troop's father/son campout. They do one of these each year and the main event is basically making a thanksgiving dinner type feast on saturday.

We did 2 15 lb turkeys and 2 spiral hams. I will post picks of the rig they put together to roast the birds. It was kinda neat. They have 8 3-4 ft long pieces of rebar with chickenwire tubes hooked to each piece. The chickenwire tube is about 4" diameter x a foot or so long. You stake the rebar into the ground in a roughly casket sized rectangle. You then get a bag of charcoal going in a chimney. While the charcoal is getting fired up, you make an aluminum foil fence around the rebar stakes. You also make a few wood tripods and crossbar. This goes over the aluminum foil fence. You hang the birds from this pole about mid fence height. When the coals are ready, you fill the chicken wire tubes about half way. Top off these tubes as needed with charcoal. You wouldn't think this contraption makes a very good oven, but, it does. A little over 3 hours to do the birds. the hams were precooked so they just needed to hang the last hour or so.

[Mikey]

Sounds like a nice cookout. The best mass campout cooking contraption I ever saw was basically a steel 55 gal drum with the bottom cut off and a few holes cut in the sides. Start a pile of coals and/or oak burning and put the can over the top. The lid is set up so you can hang about a dozen tri-tips on meat hooks at slightly different heights so that they're not getting too much in each other's way. Season your tri-tips, hang them from the hooks and roast in that hot smoker for about 45 minutes. Best way I ever saw of cooking 40 or 50 pounds of beef at a campout, short one of those $20,000 trailer rigs.

[Left Seater]

the day I pay somebody to mow my grass is the day you can bury me.

I can understand that as I enjoy working in my yard as well. However, unless you never go anywhere for more than a few days, someone will have to mow the grass for you. Hell, if the vatos and cholos can handle it, no reason someone in your area can't as well. $20 gets the yard mowed, edged, trimmed, weeds pulled from the beds and clippings bagged and removed.

I would rather do the design, planting, pruning, maintenance, etc than the mowing every 5 days.

[Mikey]

I use to have three lawns. Then I got tired of mowing, fertilizing, watering and chasing down gophers.
(yeah my gophers demanded all that)
Now I have zero lawns.

[Left Seater]

I use to have three lawns. Then I got tired of mowing, fertilizing, watering and chasing down gophers.
(yeah my gophers demanded all that)
Now I have zero lawns.

Why chase them when you could have shot them?

[Mikey]

I use to have three lawns. Then I got tired of mowing, fertilizing, watering and chasing down gophers.
(yeah my gophers demanded all that)
Now I have zero lawns.

Why chase them when you could have shot them?

Would have needed a bunker buster shotgun.

[War Wagon]

what you call gophers, I call moles. and they have absolutely destroyed my back yard the past few years. what makes it worse is that my dogs dig more holes trying to hunt them down.

yeah, I guess my yard really is pretty much fucked. don't know why I even bother trying other than to have a patch of dirt to call mine

[Mikey]

When I start to think I'm getting a handle on the gophers, then I start getting ground squirrels. They don't dig as many holes but they dig bigger holes.

Started seeing gravel around a few holes in the front yard and realized they were into the leach field.