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A Perfectly Good Cell Phone, Down The Toilet

Lucas — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:37:39 +0000

Actually the title of this post basically tells it all. I dropped my cell phone into the toilet. What a dope! Of course I don’t have insurance on the darn thing. So it’s looks like I’m now in the market to find a new cell phone. I’m glad that Internet will make it a much easier task so that I won’t have to go running from store to store to find the right one for me.

April Showers

Lucas — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:22:02 +0000

Well we haven’t held true this year with the old saying that April Showers bring May Flowers. I sure hope that we do get some rain soon, my well is acting like it is running on the dry side and that isn’t good news. I wonder who pissed off Mother Nature this year. We have had nothing but wacky weather for so very long, it’s getting old.

Horsing around

Lucas — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:53:25 +0000

Right after breakfast this morning, I looked out the kitchen picture window and saw a horse in the middle of my flower garden! He was just standing there, looking back at me! I knew there was a horse farm down the road a little ways, but didn’t know the name of the people who owned it. So I called the few neighbors that I do know and asked them if they knew who owned the horse farm. Eventually I got the phone number, and called them and asked them if they were missing a horse. They said yes, and I told them that it was in my yard. They came right down to get the horse back, but the horse wanted to play hard to get! It took them a while to rope the horse and take him home. It was rather amusing to watch the horse toy with them as they tried to catch him! He would trot just far enough out of their reach and stop and look at them, then they would get closer to him and he would trot a little distance again. I could almost hear the horse laughing to himself!

Lawn mowing

Lucas — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:48:23 +0000

It’s a good thing I like to work out in the yard! We have had so much rain lately that the grass is growing by leaps and bounds! Thankfully I have a great riding mower with zero turn radius and a bagger attachment that holds a lot of grass clippings!

This is the first year that I have decided to really try my hand at composting. Sure, we’ve had a garbage heap in the back woods where we just threw our table scraps, but I’ve never added leaves, clippings, or manure to it faithfully and bothered to turn it. I’ve just not bothered withit! It was just a garbage heap! I’d like to buy one of those barrels that you turn once a week and use that to make good compost. The soil around here could use some good compost to make it more fertile!