OK, so much for the joys of home ownership. Now a story about the frustrations. NB was nice enough to give me a lawn mower last fall which ran really well. However, I couldn't get it started yesterday when I wanted to mow the lawn as it's was supposed to rain all day today. Anyway after a helpful phone call from him, I figured out how to start it and got most of the lawn mowed. However, when I moved the car out of the garage to get the lawn mower out, I decided that instead of backing straight out as I always do, I thought I would save that whole 5 seconds and just pull over to the side of the driveway from the garage. Needless to say, the front of my car and the side of my garage are not compatible. I really wasn't going very fast, but I scraped the side and broke off a piece of the part around the headlight. Not only that, but I scraped the side of the garage enough that you can see a visible dent. It's bad enough that I smashed my own car, but I also damaged the garage. Argh! totally not worth a lawn mowing, but at least the damage doesn't keep me from driving or from closing the garage or anything.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Garden update
OK, so much for the joys of home ownership. Now a story about the frustrations. NB was nice enough to give me a lawn mower last fall which ran really well. However, I couldn't get it started yesterday when I wanted to mow the lawn as it's was supposed to rain all day today. Anyway after a helpful phone call from him, I figured out how to start it and got most of the lawn mowed. However, when I moved the car out of the garage to get the lawn mower out, I decided that instead of backing straight out as I always do, I thought I would save that whole 5 seconds and just pull over to the side of the driveway from the garage. Needless to say, the front of my car and the side of my garage are not compatible. I really wasn't going very fast, but I scraped the side and broke off a piece of the part around the headlight. Not only that, but I scraped the side of the garage enough that you can see a visible dent. It's bad enough that I smashed my own car, but I also damaged the garage. Argh! totally not worth a lawn mowing, but at least the damage doesn't keep me from driving or from closing the garage or anything.
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I am not sure about the tall spiky thing, but the last picture is of a sedum. They have a fancy flower in the fall that you can leave all winter long and give your yard a little spice.
I might have to come down tomorrow. My bro-in-law is having some tests done and if he is released I am transporting him to MSP to hitch a ride with some friends back to ND. I am positive I will get lost trying to find him, and I will have one daycare boy with me.
Do you think I will have time to pick any rhubarb?
OUCH! I'm so sorry about the car, and the garage,too, but that's probably not as costly to repair. Wish I could say something to make it all better
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