OT I told April about the $8400 Nissan Leaf in UCity!

[John Kuthe]

https://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/d/saint-louis-2013-nissan-leaf-hatchback/6902957369.html

I looked at it a few weeks ago! Nice!!! If I didn't already have one!

And April was telling me how she went to Calif on her vacation and there were charging stations all over the place! :-) Me think SHE WANTS! :-)

John Kuthe...

[ZZyXX]

to get as far away from you as possible

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

She'll be asking for a transfer to another branch soon to get away from him.

[Bruce]

On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 22:51:20 +0100, Pamela <pamela...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On 21:36 7 Jun 2019, "itsjoan...@webtv.net"

>I wonder if the poor woman knows her contacts with John are being reported
>on the Internet.

Her bank probably already got a phone call from an anonymous rfc'er.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

Let's see who John accuses this time.

[Bruce]

Whoever called the police on him, he asked for it.

[John Kuthe]

What ARE you yammering about? I was a perfect gentleman! I asked an attractive young lady for a dinner date, that's all!

John Kuthe...

[Bruce]

I'm talking about when you had this fantasy of getting on the roof
with an uzi.

[John Kuthe]

Where DO you people get this shit? Confabulation?

John Kuthe...

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

Agree.

[Jinx the Minx]

Wants you to buy her a car, yes!

[Bruce]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 18:30:17 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe

From you.

[jmcquown]

It was probably one of his neighbors. I can't imagine living next door
to someone like him. I picture him outside mowing the lawn, yelling to
all the world it's an ELECTRIC lawn mower! I'd call the cops, for sure.

Jill

[Bruce]

On Sat, 8 Jun 2019 00:30:55 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

That doesn't mean much. You'd call the cops if a neighbour waved at
you.

[Gary]

Bruce wrote:

>
> jmcquown wrote:
> >It was probably one of his neighbors. I can't imagine living next door
> >to someone like him. I picture him outside mowing the lawn, yelling to
> >all the world it's an ELECTRIC lawn mower! I'd call the cops, for sure.
>
> That doesn't mean much. You'd call the cops if a neighbour waved at
> you.

We have two princesses here. One self admitting and the other one
in denial. One is often bullied and the other is often the bully,
even to her sister RFC princess.

[John Kuthe]

Hee hee! I LOVE stopping my electric mower almost instantaneously to tell people it's my outdoor food processor WITH A CORD so as long as I pay my electric bill it runs great!! And then I resume mowing! Again almost instantaneously! :-)

And then they think! Many think "Wow! That mower just started right back UP! With NO PULL CORD! And does NOT STINK!"

John Kuthe...

[John Kuthe]

It's amazing how it draws the goodness out of people when you treat them with kindness and respect! I've seen it happen many times!

John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and Cultural Exchange!

[Gary]

John Kuthe wrote:
>
> And then they think! Many think "Wow! That mower just started right back UP! With NO PULL CORD! And does NOT STINK!"

Back in my many lawn mowing days, the one thing that I really
hated was walking behind and constantly breathing the motor
exhaust. Not fun to do.

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Saturday, June 8, 2019 at 9:11:02 AM UTC-4, John Kuthe wrote:

> And then they think! Many think "Wow! That mower just started right back UP! With NO PULL CORD! And does NOT STINK!"

My mower starts with a key:

<http://www.tractordata.com/lawn-tractors/000/8/1/814-john-deere-116.html>

It does stink, though.

It has additional utility pulling a trailer around my yard when I need
to pick up dead branches in the spring or when we trim some of our
trees and shrubs. A million other uses like hauling bags of potting
soil and big pots, etc.

Cindy Hamilton

[Dave Smith]

That is like my Ariens with a 22 HP engine. I turn the key to get it
started, put it in gear and pull out the PTO knob and just sit there and
steer for an hour or so. I could not manage a long enough electrical
cord. My property goes back 465 feet. A battery powered unit would never
make it through one cutting.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Saturday, June 8, 2019 at 8:11:02 AM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
>
> Hee hee! I LOVE stopping my electric mower almost instantaneously to tell people it's my outdoor food processor WITH A CORD so as long as I pay my electric bill it runs great!! And then I resume mowing! Again almost instantaneously! :-)
>

While burning coal to produce that electricity to run your Barbie mower. But
hey, my Toro DOES stop instantly, no 'almost instantaneously.' I can restart
it with the key or just one, ONE, pull of the cord and it's off again.

>
> And then they think! Many think "Wow! That mower just started right back UP! With NO PULL CORD! And does NOT STINK!"
>
> John Kuthe...
>

My lawnmower does not stink either; it's called maintenance. The only 'smell'
is from the fresh cut grass. But no, nobody is thinking "Wow! That mower just started right back UP! With NO PULL CORD! And does NOT STINK!" They're probably
wondering how much your electric bill is each month and glad they are not paying
it.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Saturday, June 8, 2019 at 9:16:07 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>
> Back in my many lawn mowing days, the one thing that I really
> hated was walking behind and constantly breathing the motor
> exhaust. Not fun to do.
>

You must have been using a worn out piece of junk.

[Bruce]

Then why am I in so many killfiles here? :)

[Bruce]

Yes, the biddy's quite snooty.

[Bruce]

We have an Ariens too. I used it twice. Each time it broke down. I
stopped using it after that.

[Ophelia]

"Bruce" wrote in message news:475ofel653od9gn3e...@4ax.com...

====

All I can say is, lucky you <g>

[Bruce]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 09:32:40 +0100, "Ophelia" <OphEl...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Yes, they do the filtering for me :)

[Ophelia]

"Bruce" wrote in message news:76jpfeprp8sor3p5c...@4ax.com...

===

Yeah, like I said.... lucky you!!

[Bruce]

On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 13:10:10 +0100, Pamela <pamela...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>My gardener brings his own lawn mower and it seems to do a fine job. I can't
>see the point in mowing your own lawn (or trimming trees and hedges) unless
>you enjoy the exercise.
>
>I'd rather be making a pizza.

I do it myself most of the time. It takes 10 hours to do it all.

[Ed Pawlowski]

I'd plant 9/10 of that with a ground cover that does not need mosing.
I've not cut grass for three years now.

[Bruce]

If only it was that easy. This isn't a suburban lawn.

[Bruce]

On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 22:19:38 +0100, Pamela <pamela...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Is that 10 hours done every couple of weeks?
>
>You could make alot of pizzas in that time.
>
>Okay if gardening is a hobby but it's not mine.

It depends how badly I let it go before I mow it again. I don't need
to do much from May until November. The other half of the year, every
6 weeks or so.

[Cindy Hamilton]

If I tried that on my yard (which only takes two hours), it would be
pretty evenly divided between thistles, maple trees and black walnuts
in about a year.

Cindy Hamilton

[Bruce]

Yes. Thistles, invasive grasses, fireweed, billy goat weed, dock leaf,
nutgrass and gumtrees, to mention a few.

[Dave Smith]

On 2019-06-09 5:18 p.m., Pamela wrote:

> On 21:42 9 Jun 2019, Ed Pawlowski <e...@snet.xxx> wrote:

>> I'd plant 9/10 of that with a ground cover that does not need mosing.
>> I've not cut grass for three years now.
>

> Lawns are also very wasteful of tap water.

Are they? The only time I water my lawn is in the spring when I have
seeded some bald spots and there were a couple days without rain. At
that time of year I have lots of water in the well.

[penm...@aol.com]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 07:00:16 +1000, Bruce <br...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

Then it'a primately an obnoxious weed patch.

[jmcquown]

On 6/8/2019 8:47 AM, Gary wrote:
> Bruce wrote:
>>
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>> It was probably one of his neighbors. I can't imagine living next door
>>> to someone like him. I picture him outside mowing the lawn, yelling to
>>> all the world it's an ELECTRIC lawn mower! I'd call the cops, for sure.
>>
>> That doesn't mean much. You'd call the cops if a neighbour waved at
>> you.
>

Bullshit. I know my neighbors.

> We have two princesses here. One self admitting and the other one
> in denial. One is often bullied and the other is often the bully,
> even to her sister RFC princess.
>

Your talk of princesses and bullies is just so much babble.

Jill

[Bruce]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 18:15:35 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

I don't say this lightly, but Gary has a point.

[Bruce]

There are weeds, but also lots of different competing grasses. Some
die back during a night frost, others don't. Some are good for cattle,
others aren't. Then there are lots of gum trees and 12 mandarin trees.
They drop branches and some have roots that stick out of the ground
and attack the mower.

[Bruce]

Obviously, this is climate/weather dependent. Obviously, you don't
water your lawn when it rains. Obviously.

[penm...@aol.com]

On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 22:18:09 +0100, Pamela <pamela...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On 21:42 9 Jun 2019, Ed Pawlowski <e...@snet.xxx> wrote:
>

>Lawns are also very wasteful of tap water.

Nonsence, the only water my lawn gets is from rain... and this year
too much rain. I have ten acres of lawn that I mow and have never
watered it. It's always green and grows too fast. I have half now
that I can't mow because it's too wet.

[Gary]

Bruce wrote:
>
> It depends how badly I let it go before I mow it again. I don't need
> to do much from May until November. The other half of the year, every
> 6 weeks or so.

You only have to mow every 6 weeks? Must be very dry in your
area. How about a pic of your yard, B. That would be cool.. :)

[Gary]

Bruce wrote:
>
> 12 mandarin trees.

And producing many oranges? That would be more than you could
eat. Do you sell them as a side income?

[Dave Smith]

On 2019-06-10 7:55 a.m., Pamela wrote:

> On 01:45 10 Jun 2019, penm...@aol.com wrote:

>> Nonsence, the only water my lawn gets is from rain... and this year too
>> much rain. I have ten acres of lawn that I mow and have never watered
>> it. It's always green and grows too fast. I have half now that I can't
>> mow because it's too wet.
>

> I am not talking about meadow but cultivated grass lawns. Here we see
> sprinklers and hosepipes for watering lawns and they consume vast amounts
> of drinking water over a growing season.

It is not all being wasted. It is being used to feed that grass, and the
grass is sucking CO2 out of the air and releasing oxygen. Some of it is
absorbed into the ground and returning directly to the water table, or
it evaporates and returns as rain.

[Dave Smith]

On 2019-06-10 8:00 a.m., Pamela wrote:

> On 23:04 9 Jun 2019, Dave Smith <adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>> Are they? The only time I water my lawn is in the spring when I have
>> seeded some bald spots and there were a couple days without rain. At
>> that time of year I have lots of water in the well.
>

> If we Brits get a dry summer then watering the garden almost turns into a
> national pastime -- until the officials declare a ban.
>
> At several gallons gallons a minute from one single hose pipe, that ends up
> being a lot of water.

Some people are obsessive about green lawns. Grass is hard to kill. No
matter how brown it turns it is likely to spring right back as soon as
it gets a little rain.

[Dave Smith]

At this time of year I have to mow twice a week. I could let it go a
little more but I would have to slow down to less than half the speed
and I would be leaving big clumps. It is much easier to trim less more
often.

[penm...@aol.com]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:55:05 +0100, Pamela <pamela...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I am not talking about meadow but cultivated grass lawns. Here we see
>sprinklers and hosepipes for watering lawns and they consume vast amounts

>of drinking water over a growing season.

I don't mow my four acre wildflower meadow... but at the end of the
growing season I brush hog it. I do mow ten acres of cultivated lawn,
once a week, weather permitting... this spring there was too much rain
so I couldn't now at all, and even now that's there's been a break in
the rain I got about half mowed, most is still too wet, the tractor
will bog down. I also mow cultivated lawn paths through the woods and
around and through the wildflower meadow. The only watering I do is
to occasionally water the vegetable garden and when planting new
shrubs/trees. The topsoil here is very rich and deep so there's no
need to water. I can only photograph a small part of my cultivated
lawn unless I go up in a helicopter. Here's just maybe 1/3 of the
back yard from my deck, in spring before the trees leafed out. I mow
that path trhough the woods and then another four acre cultivated lawn
at the rear of the property. I really don't know what you mean by
cultivated lawn, the parts I mow are grass and flat, I use no
chemicals and it rains more than enough here.
https://postimg.cc/3dssB4jN
We have two tractors, my wife uses the smaller tractor to mow the
edges and around trees. There's a natural spring fed stream that runs
along the low side of that side field so we really can't mow the wet
part until until hot weather when it dries. That stream runs right
alongside our vegetable garden so we rarely need to water it:
https://postimg.cc/gallery/2foe9fqys/
Brush hogging the wildflower meadow and around our pond... brush
hogging keeps the meadow healthy In the last photo that's a Dawn
Redwood I planted. That pond is 20' deep, contains fish and snapping
turtles That pond is spring fed, and there are several vernal ponds
in that meadow:
https://postimg.cc/gallery/133xzazwk/
We have a creek in front, it's planted out with lots of daffodils that
bloom in early spring, about the only thing the deer won't eat:
https://postimg.cc/gallery/2nf8xkchw/
Here you can see the small stream passing by our vegetable garden.
Sometimes when it's hot and it gets dryer I can straddle mow it. You
can make out the muddy tracks from the tractor tires... need to mow
there in four wheel drive:
https://postimg.cc/jLSDYh5W
Mowing the path through the woods and back field:
https://postimg.cc/gallery/2ryu6b70k/
We enjoy all the outdoor work, sure beats watching TV 24/7.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 8:25:21 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> Some people are obsessive about green lawns. Grass is hard to kill. No
> matter how brown it turns it is likely to spring right back as soon as
> it gets a little rain.
>

Some of my neighbors in the past were obsessive about watering their lawns and
keeping them green. I never watered my grass and it always sprung back to green
with a good rain and I was not paying a huge water bill at the end of the month.
Nor did I make extra work for myself by having grass that was shooting up in an
astonishing rate due to all the irrigation and constantly mowing.

[Janet]

In article <XnsAA69E2D...@81.171.118.178>,
pamela...@gmail.com says...
> Subject: Re: OT I told April about the $8400 Nissan Leaf in UCity!
> From: Pamela <pamela...@gmail.com>
> Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking

>
> On 21:42 9 Jun 2019, Ed Pawlowski <e...@snet.xxx> wrote:
>

> > [quoted text muted]

> >> I do it myself most of the time. It takes 10 hours to do it all.
> >>
> >
> > I'd plant 9/10 of that with a ground cover that does not need mosing.
> > I've not cut grass for three years now.
>

> Lawns are also very wasteful of tap water.
>

None of my lawns have ever drunk tap water.

Janet UK

[Janet]

In article <XnsAA6A845...@81.171.92.183>,
pamela...@gmail.com says...

> If we Brits get a dry summer then watering the garden almost turns into a
> national pastime -- until the officials declare a ban.

Scotland and Wales don't have summers dry enough for lawns to need
watering. Or hosepipe bans.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-44858356

Janet UK

[Bruce]

That's the outerlying areas, where we don't care too much. Plus we're
not neat freaks. Around the house, it should be done every 2 weeks if
you want to see the snake coming :)

[Bruce]

Neat freak.

[Cindy Hamilton]

I think you underestimate how quickly the grass grows when
more than 1 inch per week of rain falls.

Cindy Hamilton

[Bruce]

I've got way too much experience with how quickly grass grows when
more than 1 inch per week falls :)

We just let it go more or our entire life would only consist of
mowing. Some people in the area are glued to their mower. You could
play pool on their lawn at any moment.

[jay]

On 6/10/19 2:55 PM, Bruce wrote:
> We just let it go more or our entire life would only consist of
> mowing. Some people in the area are glued to their mower

Yes mowing would certainly interfere with your work here TCOB 24/7.

[Bruce]

Thanks for caring.

[dsi1]

When I was growing up, I'd hear the gas lawn mower going every Sunday afternoon. That was how I knew it was Sunday. The guy across the street had some Chinese grass that was beautiful and pokey. That stuff is slow growing so it was odd to be mowing it so often. When I became an adult, I realized that the guy was OCD. When my mom died, he got the case of the nerves and retired. He's dead but it is unfortunate to spend your life worrying about things and the future.

[Bruce]

They produce lots, but we leave them to the bats. We have other
mandarin trees closer to the house. Those we do eat.

[Bruce]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 08:41:51 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:

Here's a picture. As you can see, I outsourced part of the mowing:
<http://oi68.tinypic.com/34zboet.jpg>

[Ed Pawlowski]

Your dog looks fat.

[Bruce]

Must be all the grass.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

S/he looks a bit miffed that you are in her 'house.'

[Bruce]

He's trespassing. I don't know if it's a bull or a steer. Every time I
look at him, he gives me that stare back. I'm not going into that
field while he's there :)

[Gary]

Bruce wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:15:14 -0700 (PDT), "itsjoan...@webtv.net"
> <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:
>
> >On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 8:39:08 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:36:54 -0400, Ed Pawlowski <e...@snet.xxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> >> Here's a picture. As you can see, I outsourced part of the mowing:
> >> >> <http://oi68.tinypic.com/34zboet.jpg>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >Your dog looks fat.
> >>
> >> Must be all the grass.
> >>
> >S/he looks a bit miffed that you are in her 'house.'
>
> He's trespassing. I don't know if it's a bull or a steer. Every time I
> look at him, he gives me that stare back. I'm not going into that
> field while he's there :)

OH....so that's not your kid, eh?

Have you ever watched the original "Crocodile Dundee" movie? All
you have to do is walk slowly up to that thing humming and
holding your hand in certain position. Like he did with that
animal (dobie?) in the movie. I thought all Austrailians knew
that trick. heheh ;)

Thanks for the pic! :)

[Bruce]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 07:31:18 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:15:14 -0700 (PDT), "itsjoan...@webtv.net"
>> <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:
>>
>> >On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 8:39:08 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:36:54 -0400, Ed Pawlowski <e...@snet.xxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >> Here's a picture. As you can see, I outsourced part of the mowing:
>> >> >> <http://oi68.tinypic.com/34zboet.jpg>
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >Your dog looks fat.
>> >>
>> >> Must be all the grass.
>> >>
>> >S/he looks a bit miffed that you are in her 'house.'
>>
>> He's trespassing. I don't know if it's a bull or a steer. Every time I
>> look at him, he gives me that stare back. I'm not going into that
>> field while he's there :)
>
>OH....so that's not your kid, eh?

No, we and our neighbours have bad fencing due to frequent flooding
damage, so trespassing and cattle on the road are common.

>Have you ever watched the original "Crocodile Dundee" movie? All
>you have to do is walk slowly up to that thing humming and
>holding your hand in certain position. Like he did with that
>animal (dobie?) in the movie. I thought all Austrailians knew
>that trick. heheh ;)
>
>Thanks for the pic! :)

I'm only 8 years old or so as an Australian, so I leave bull
hypnotising to my elders :)

[jay]

Nice property and well cared for! The second "tractor" looks more like a
mower. I usually think of a tractor as having a power take off that
will accept various implements. Nice tools!

[jmcquown]

Some years back, in the Spring, a water main leading to Dataw was broken
due to some road construction. The Beaufort/Jasper [county] Water
Authority was going to have to shut off the water for what they said
*could* have been several days. It was suggested people fill bottles
with tap water for drinking and cooking and fill buckets for flushing
the toilets, just in case. People started whining they wouldn't be able
to use their irrigation systems to water the lawn. How silly!

My reaction: This is not a drought area. Look out the window. It pours
down rain nearly every afternoon in the Spring; you can practically set
your watch by it. Can't use the irrigation system? What a ridiculous
thing to worry about.

Jill

[jay]

On 6/11/19 5:36 AM, Bruce wrote:

> I'm only 8 years old or so

What grade are you in?

[Gary]

penm...@aol.com wrote:
>
> Mowing the path through the woods and back field:
> https://postimg.cc/gallery/2ryu6b70k/
> We enjoy all the outdoor work, sure beats watching TV 24/7.

I don't know. I have no mowing required but am enjoying lot's of
TV. heheh

Nice pics all, Sheldar. thanks for posting.

[Bruce]

I dropped out of school before it started.