get some conversation going on the HT.

[Eilan]

My wife likes to mow the lawn. We've been here for 3 summers; I think I've mowed it three times.

I have to confess that I've never done that. We have probably 70 trees in our yard, so our ground cover barely qualifies as grass, but it still needs to be mowed. We have 1 1/2 acres, and mowing it is an all-day job.

 

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[Eilan]

That's a lot to mow.

It would be a lot easier if we didn't have all those trees to mow around.

We have about 1/2 acre of thick lawn, needs to be mowed twice/week (she feeds it.) It seems to be expanding though since we got the lawn tractor. One day I could hear it running, but it seemed far off (my office is in the basement right now) so i came upstairs and saw her mowing across the street. Then she went and mowed a small field beside the cemetery that the city usually does.

Wow. That's a real love of mowing.

My husband admits to being one of those guys who likes a nice lawn. That's why I'm baffled as to why he bought a house with a boatload of trees in the yard.

 

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[Eilan]

What kind of trees do you have? Does shade limit the grass growth or pine needles affecting soil ph?

Mostly oak. The soil's crap. It's very hard and it has a lot of rocks in it.

If all goes well in the next few months, we're going to add a new master bedroom and bath to our house and finish the the currently existing upstairs part. Then we'll probably knock down some trees and try to level things out as best we can. It'll be a pain.

 

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[Eilan]

The trees must be beautiful during the summer. We have some large oaks in the back and in the woods; it's been a banner year for acorns here.

Oh, they are beautiful, but a couple of them aren't healthy because of age and lightning. And the leaves.

We'll have a lot of deer in our yard soon, if we haven't already. Our puppies got the runs by eating the acorns.

The project sounds exciting. I'm sure you'll be glad when it's over though.

We also need to redo the kitchen, but that'll probably have to wait.

I'm currently finishing off half of our attic space to kove my office up to an area with some daylight. Have almost half the drywall up right now. Lots of work left to do though.

Just the thought of doing any work at all is daunting to me, even though my main job will be to keep the kids out of the way.

My husband can do a lot of the work himself and our next-door neighbor has already volunteered to help us with some aspects of construction. He knows lots of people, so he can call in some favors. But it'll still be expensive.

It's necessary, though. Four girls and one bathroom ain't gonna work in about three or four years.

 

[KarenDee]

It's necessary, though. Four girls and one bathroom ain't gonna work in about three or four years.

I hear you! I have 2 teen boys and the way they fight over the 2nd bathroom (especially if a hot date is looming) almost makes you wish you had girls!

K

 

[Eilan]

I hear you! I have 2 teen boys and the way they fight over the 2nd bathroom (especially if a hot date is looming) almost makes you wish you had girls!

My oldest is 7, so she doesn't care about stuff like that--yet. We want to be ready when she does.

Right now, I'd settle for another toilet in a quiet part of the house. Every time I go into the bathroom--for whatever reason--someone ends up banging on the door and shouting, "Mommy! I have to pee!"

 

[KarenDee]

Eilan, I have to tell you, your avatar cracks me up. A number of years ago I was walking through WalMart and my youngest took one of those plastic Halloween pumpkins and put it on his head. It got stuck after passing over his ears. He was staggering around the store, bumping into counters and people. It was almost way too hilarious. Took a store clerk and me 5 minutes to finally remove it. It never bothered him a bit, but I had to leave the store shortly after. People kept pointing at me and whispering, "she's the woman who's kid had the pumpkin head."

 

[Eilan]

Eilan, I have to tell you, your avatar cracks me up. A number of years ago I was walking through WalMart and my youngest took one of those plastic Halloween pumpkins and put it on his head. It got stuck after passing over his ears. He was staggering around the store, bumping into counters and people. It was almost way too hilarious. Took a store clerk and me 5 minutes to finally remove it. It never bothered him a bit, but I had to leave the store shortly after. People kept pointing at me and whispering, "she's the woman who's kid had the pumpkin head."

That's funny, but not as funny, I'm sure, when it's your own kid! I could see my two-year-old doing something like that and then getting hysterical.

Kids will do the oddest things. A few years back, when I was still teaching, one of my students asked me if she could bring her 10-year-old son to class. She'd decided not to send him to school that day, even though he wasn't sick. The reason? He'd decided to give himself a vacuum cleaner hickey--right in the middle of his forehead. She was worried about what his teachers would think.

 

[KarenDee]

Experimenting with a vacuum cleaner at 10 years...you wonder what's in the future for him!

 

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[EJFan]

PS - Are you back for good, EJ?

no... i'm back for...

EVIL​

BWAHAHAHAHA​

*wrings hands and sneers*

 

[silverwhisper]

damn but i've missed you, dude.

so...i hope you've been hitting the weights: looks to me like you're gonna answering eilan's prayers and streak. it would be a real shame to streak and not...measure up to expectations.

ed

 

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[silverwhisper]

or, from eilan's perspective, devolve, i would imagine. :>

ed

 

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[silverwhisper]

i think they'll keep the election for sweeps week. i know that i would if i were sorkin.

ed

 

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[silverwhisper]

good for him, although given his expertise demonstrated in the "how to really lose weight" thread, i'm guessing he doesn't really need all that much time...

ed

 

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[bisexplicit]

no... i'm back for...

EVIL​

BWAHAHAHAHA​

*wrings hands and sneers*

hahaha, I you, EJ. This place really isn't the same without you.


On a side note, this place won't be the same without me for the next week or so, I'm sure, while I'm gone. You can all begin crying now. Either that, or one of you can attend my classes that I'm missing and give me expert notes on it. The latter being slightly more productive.

 

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[bisexplicit]

Great! Now we can really hijack and abuse this thread.

I mean, we're going to miss you so much. This place just won't be the same with you gone.

You all just wait for me to leave, don't you? So you can have secret fun parties where you all say mean things about me.