When we were looking for our house my minimums were either a 3 car garage, or a property with enough space to build a shop building. We looked a at few houses with lots of space. One was 10 acres, but it was all grass. Someone spent a lot of time mowing. I would have put horses or cattle on it and never mowed all that. One place was just covered in trees, and the house was covered in leaves on several acres.

When we were ready to buy here we both promised, no more moving. We are happy here, and plan to stay here until taken to a assisted living or nursing home or funeral home as the situation requires.

One of the houses we looked at had acres of walnut trees and the guy said it only took 5.5 hours with his commercial zero turn mower to mow. The mower did not come with the house, but would sell it to us for several grand. Ah, no.

He did say he got $5 per bucket of walnuts.

Oklahoma City metro area is very hilly and tree covered on the east side, and very flat on the west side. There is a large horse ranch just 3/4 of a mile north of my house. And and 1/4 section size (160 acres) horse ranch one mile west of us. There was spectacular ranch that was 1/2 a section (320 acres) across the street from it. Those owners died off, and the kids tried to develop it. They got some roads in and utilities and then went broke. So now it just sits. Right next to 1-35 a few miles from me is a 1/4 section that has been in the same family since the land run. The property's abstract is one page. I suspect someday fairly soon it will be sold to a large warehouse developer. With it right off of I-35 and just a few miles south to I-40 and I-44.

Bro has a 4 bedroom farm house with basement on a pond on 360 acres on the county line. Land was homesteaded by his wife's grandfather. He was quite the sportsman so it used to be well stocked with 3 ponds. Not so much any more. Stopped getting stocked when the grandfather passed. Grandkids are more into 4 runners and swimming than hunting a fishing. It takes a lot of work to keep up with wildlife management.

When in HS and College the old man was still alive and there were no buildings. Took dates out there catch and cook fresh fish and chips. It was amazing. Could have the girls cast a line in and reel in a fish as fast as she could while I started a fire. Filleted them, battered, and deep fried with home made fries in cast iron dutch oven on an open fire. Learned to scale and fillet fish when I was 4. Learned to deep fry with a dutch oven in Boy Scouts. Much better than skillet fried. Made for a tasty and fun picnic.

Oh man...now I'm hungry for fish and chips.

Phew, part one.

The mean boss's wife rousted me from bed 45 minutes early today, and got mad when I started my second cup of coffee. She made me go outside and play step n fetchit and then I had to dig holes in rock hard clay. A shovel would hardly dent the soil, so I had to go get my pick-axe and start swinging that. She had three extra wives from the neighborhood pointing and grunting at the ground requesting holes be smashed into the ground to plant three flats of ground cover plants to grow in the shady areas of the neighborhood association common area. It took 4 or 5 overhead hard swings to break up the ground enough to have a fist size hole to put in the plants. The association does have a sprinkler system, so we can keep it watered until it get established.

Next up, mow the lawn.

Golly what a fun Tuesday, wait, its Wednesday today according to my watch. Time flies when yer having fun.

Have you heard the one about the deaf gynecologist?











He reads lips

:D

Morning all. Is it time to retire yet? No planting here but lots of arguing with the boss over plots and prints from remote work at home that didn't come out of the printer. I am now assuming its my fault for not making sure the ones and zeros got there.

It's official, I am corona virus free!
At least my nasal cavities are.

Tomorrow they gonna do the oscpathy thing.
Last time I asked if I could get a copy of the video so I could prove I wasn't full of it. Said the file was to big and gave me a polaroid of the screen instead.

Mowed Monday. Rain yesterday and today. Had to unclog a downspout in the pouring rain yesterday. Something was nesting in the spout right before the bend into the drain tile.

Good to know ya ain't got the Rona Richard.

Phew, I am tired. After 12 hours of swinging a pickaxe, well OK maybe just 6 hours, OK just an hour but it seems like 12 hours, I "got" to rest up for 30 minutes and then go edge 1/4 mile of my yard, and mow it. The humidity is only 29% so it felt great, but it is the second day of crazy windy. Last night we had gusts of 50+ MPH and today is is only 25 to 30. Skinny folks have to carry bricks in their pockets, but I am safe from that restriction.

Now it is 12:30 and I think I will go make me a sandwich. I did drink one of the bosses Hoegarden German beers as I sat on my butt and rested after mowing.

Oh yea, after mowing I had to drag out my drill driver, and screw in some new screws in the stockade fence on the east side of the property. It is the only section that is not fairly new or brand new. Then I mixed up more Roundup and murdered some weeds.

I walked into my garage bathroom which is not very big and dang someone was really stinky. Unfortunately I was in there by myself so it was not hard to figure out the source of the stench. A long cool shower fixed that up. I need a nap.

This wind reminds me of when I used to fly RC planes. Liked flying in wind of around 25 mph cause you could actually take off and land rolling backwards. My planes had flapperons which means the ailerons also worked as flaps. Could put put flaps up instead of down and to change the airfoil creat negative lift like the wings on the back of cars. That way the planes would stay on the ground despite the wind. If you controlled the flapperons and power just right you could do vertical take offs and landings, ie matching the speed of the wind.

Went to an RC field in Atlanta when visiting my brother. The wind got up to 8 mph and they all quit flying and went home. Told them that if we did that in OKC, we would never get to fly.

Understand they don't cancel pattern flying contests (where you precisely fly specific loops, turns, and rolls) unless the wind gets over 35 mph.

Today was instacart shopping day. Restocked my kitchen but can't eat anything solid until after the oscapy tomorrow, arrgh.

When the winds gust to 35 plus MPH it is hard to walk straight, much less fly a plane. In the olden days when I first moved to the city the morning radio show had two funny guys like most stations. They would issue a short skirt warning wind alert. With those winds blowing between the downtown buildings the winds got really crazy and would blow up skirts like a Marylin Monroe photo shoot.

I used to use a bank that was downtown for some stupid reason I don't remember. I remember going to the drive through right next to the Murrah Federal building that is now gone. Just sitting in my car in line at the drive through was interesting on many occasions for the views.

Hey Sid, when are you lot moving to Oz?

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Well today is only two more flats of plants to dig holes for. This is like the movie ground hog day. We did water the area yesterday so the ground is not like a brick.

My new helmet arrived yesterday. It fits perfect, and even smells new. I suspect that will change after an autocross and and a track day in the coming weeks.

morning all. In typical bad project management I got hit with an I need to done tonight 30 min before quitting time. I told him I hade some place to be but he pitched a fit. Next time I have an appointment to make after work at 4 I'm going radio silent at 2 or 3.

We always wanted to tell clients “your failure to plan ahead does not constitute a crisis for us”.

We did add a dumb ass fee to to invoice hidden in the billing.

good plan. I plan to notify my super that this is not acceptable...……..

Yea, fortunately for us, we were dealing with paying clients, not the boss and the the other employees of the company.

In the past we would get slammed with work. I would go to the boss, and ask his to pick the order of the projects for us to do. Who is gonna be happy, and who is gonna be mad.

He would go look at the accounts receivable. If they owed any money past the due date, they were pushed to the back. If they paid their bills on time, they went to the front. Fast pay makes fast friends was the bosses motto. Now it is ours at my company.

also a good idea.