Hi Dave,
Stephen has looked at riding mowers but by using the lawn care service, hasn't had the need to buy one.
If I hired a lawn service my Scottish forebears would be "spinning in their crypts".
Your choice. When they got old enough, my brothers did the lawn care for
my parents and I know Steve has mowed quite a few yards. It's not a
favorite chore so I don't mind him spending the money to have someone
else do it. He, along with several other men, mow the church house
yards, mostly with a riding mower but a hand one where needed and a
string trimmer.
It lived in a back corner of the garage until one fine afternoon
when a friend called and asked if I knew where he could find a DD>
reasonably priced mower for his son who had bought a house with a DD>
Good deal. My parents owned about a quarter acre but kept a small strip
of the one neighbor's pace mowed to extend our back yard slightly. Neighbors owned several acres surrounding ours but let us have free run
of most of it, including a good sledding hill. Only part of their
acreage was kept mowed, the rest was left wild.
Like the farm house my Granddad and I stayedin during the week while
my Grandmother was working out of town. There was a front and side
yard.
The other "side yard"was taken up with a kitchen garden having green beans, carrots, radishes, sweet crn, popcorn, and asparagus patch,
etc.
Dad's vegetable gardens were in the back of the house, one near an old
barn foundation (barn had burned some years before my folks bought the
lot but the foundation was never cleared away). The other was in what we
called the "lower lawn", down a small hill in the back yard. He grew
lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, wax beans, beets, sweet corn, rhubarb, don't remember anything else when I was growing up. After I left home he added brussels sprouts and IIRC something else. Most of it was either eaten
fresh or canned, later frozen.
The backyard contained the well and pump (no runnin water), DD>
smokehouse, tool shed and outhouse. And the other side of the fence DD>
was pasture.
Lots of room for a kid to run wild in.
she called back saying it was soupy; in trouble shooting, she thought
I'd said 3-4 cups (instead of 3/4 cup) of water. I was able to tell her the extra amounts of flour, yeast, oil and sugar (or honey) to add to
the bowl to make several crusts (the dough freezes well) so she'd have them on hand for a quick meal.
I'll bet you told her three-fourths of a cup where I would have said
three quarters of a cup. My grandpa taught me that when we were making
a sewing table for my grandmother. He had asked me for a measurement
and his ears elided the three fourths inch in the same way your lady mis-heard your
water measure. Sso he instructed me to use quarter instead of fourth.
Bv)=
Probably so, been so long I don't remember. Do you say "oh" or "zero"?
I grew up using the former more but some time ago switched to using the latter.
In casual conversation I use "oh" If giving a number ... phone,
address, etc. I use "zero" and may do phonetic letters like "apple", "hairy", etc. Not the same as the military but the same principle.
We hear all kinds of substitutions on the radio, generally from folks
who've not had any exposure to the NATO phonetic alphabet (usually in
the military. The NATO alphabet is supposed to be used but some of the
older hams will come up with all sorts of variations.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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