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Location: 6 String Ranch | I go out to trim a bush in the yard today. On the first pass the hedge clippers cut the cord. So I soldier it back together and it turns out that the motor got zapped too. So I take the weedeater and in 5 minutes it not only runs out of gas but string too.
I think I'm not supposed to be out side working today.
I'll just go play guitar, unplugged of course. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Hey, Bill, I can relate. The cord I use for the hedge trimmer has at least a full roll of electrical tape on it. I hate pulling a cord around, but my gas weedeater won't start.
SWMBO thinks the 45 trees and hundreds of bushes I planted are overgrown, so she paid somebody $800 last fall to trim the whole yard. Everything looked like a kid with a bad haircut for a few months and now it's overgrown again. Eventually she'll drag the cord for the hedgetrimmer across the pool one more time and the plants will have their revenge. I'll write a song about how much I miss her, unplugged of course. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I learned along time ago, NO electric lawn equipment. They're under powered and the cords aren't armor sheathed! |
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Location: Delaware | I think I'm not supposed to be out side working today.
I'll just go play guitar, unplugged of course. Maybe you better wear saftey glasses in case you pop a string ! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I have the wife take care of that stuff. I leave the important stuff to me. Like playing guitar. |
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Location: closely held secret | I got smart and bought a cordless weedeater.
No cord or gas to mess around with, and between the two battery packs the thing only lasts about 20 minutes, then they have to charge for four hours.
Perfect. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Wow. That is perfect. Nice work, Wask. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I just let my friend come over and take care of all that stuff while I stay inside and play guitar. |
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Location: Newington, CT | I just let the condo association take care of all that stuff, and I stay inside and play the guitar. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've got the cordless weedeater and hedge trimmer, too. The weedeater works fine, but the hedge trimmer doesn't last long enough to do the hedge.
I don't dare let SWMBO do it. On the rare occasions she does, she always dreams up a bunch of work for me to do to make the yard low maintenance. And I didn't move to the land of wide open spaces to live in a condo. Too many people too close. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Well, since I'm the condo association, the maintenance man, the landscaper, and suffer from a simply horrific case of "black thumb," I don't plant anything that requires a lot of care, coaxing, or funding.
And, Mark, thanks for the comment about your wife dragging the cord across the pool and its' resulting song--I needed a good chuckle. :D
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Location: East Tennessee | You guys mow lawn and trim shrubbery??? :confused: |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Capo Guy:
You guys mow lawn and trim shrubbery??? :confused: Not any more! I pay a nominal fee to have my nephew do that for me.  |
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Location: East Tennessee | johnny,
I'm going for the "Naturalized" look. :D |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Never had a wife.
Never had an Ol' Lady and a yard at the same time.
Never had an electric hedgetrimmer...
God has been Good to me that way! :D :cool: |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | There's this little restaurant next town over, rave reviews from everyone I know who's been there. My sister comes home from Ohio, but is too tired from the long trip for us to go over, so we eat close to home. Next time, my girlfriend and I decide to go out to eat there while her husband's out of state...but it's a week night and they're only open past lunch on Friday and Saturday. Yesterday, another friend and I decide to go there for lunch...but there's a painter's dropcloth in the entry way and the sign indicating it's open says, "Asleep," and it's dark inside.
I've decided it's probably just easier to eat peanut butter at home...and play guitar. :D
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Joe Rotax:
I only like things that run on gasoline. I'd love to see pics of your amps!!! :eek: |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | After a couple wedding anniversaries buying my wife electronics and appliances (hey, I'm a GUY, what do I know) she put her foot down. "I don't give a damn what you buy for me but it better not freaking plug into an A/C outlet !!!" |
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| Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
I'd love to see pics of your amps!!! :eek:
Last amp I owned was a Traynor Bass Master MK-II
with a 4-10 cabinet and I traded it to a music store in or about 1975 for the 1621-4 that I still have today - can't remember the last time I had the guitar plugged into an amp either - maybe 20 years ago or more - guess I'm back in the stone age..lol
This is what I use to record with - pretty much have to eat the damn microphone to get heard but the odd thing is that it doesn't sound that bad and my wife says my mp3s don't sound any worse than the crap I usually listen to..lol
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by Beal:
I go out to trim a bush in the yard today. On the first pass the hedge clippers cut the cord. So I soldier it back together and it turns out that the motor got zapped too. So I take the weedeater and in 5 minutes it not only runs out of gas but string too.
I think I'm not supposed to be out side working today.
I'll just go play guitar, unplugged of course. one of those days
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by AlanM:
I just let the condo association take care of all that stuff, and I stay inside and play the guitar. +1 |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Iffy, down south all this gets taken care of, up here....
Well, today it's raining, must be another sign. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Round-Up & Redi-Mix. 'Nuff said. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I've had the same two brothers doing my yard care for years. To say they were US citizens or even here legally would be a stretch, but that's pretty standard in this town.
Monday they show up and both have big smiles on their faces. So I ask what's up, why so happy?
"Ah, senjor Dave if gews just found dat gew will get free healthcare from amerika gews would be smiling too."
I wasn't smiling. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | They must've gotten their green cards. |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
"Ah, senjor Dave if gews just found dat gew will get free healthcare from amerika gews would be smiling too." Free healthcare? Boy, I'd be smiling too!
Although I imagine they take home more than I gross, I know that healthcare will never be free for me... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Aw... Don't even go there. Poor people have Always had free health care.
When I lived on the street, I'd just walk into a hospital. Get a free meal while I was at it.
They don't even bother making you fill-out forms... You're gonna lie anyway.
I haven't seen a doctor since I got off the streets five years ago. And I've been sick too.
Just go down and buy some OTC medicine and deal with it.
Now that I have become 'a responsible, productive, member of society' I got nothing coming! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by an4340:
They must've gotten their green cards. They don't need no stinkin' green cards! Just ask around in your local medical community and find out what's really happening. Or better yet, go to an ER... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | SWMBO is just finishing a month's worth of radiation treatment for a brain tumor. The daily zap takes less time than a dental xray, but the bill for the first week was $13000. So some of us get to pay a ton for insurance, then we pay a ton for the cost that isn't covered, then we pay higher bills because they charge us extra to pay for the "free" health care and a bunch of extra taxes to pay for the free health care. OK, I'm starting to sound political, but I'm not trying to be. |
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Location: Guitar Town USA | Originally posted by Beal:
I go out to trim a bush in the yard today. On the first pass the hedge clippers cut the cord. So I soldier it back together and it turns out that the motor got zapped too. So I take the weedeater and in 5 minutes it not only runs out of gas but string too.
haha. that's std procedure for me too when there's yardwork to be done and I wanna play guitar. just make sure the missus don't catch on. |
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Location: Alagoas, Brazil | I live in an apartment. No garden, no trees, no bushes. Heck, not even some flowers on the dinner table.
Guitars and amps everywhere.
Go figure.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I'm still doing the grass and sidewalk trimming. Last Saturday was a particularly nice day because there was some type of women's distance race going on across the street in the park. Maybe a thousand very physically fit women running by in little jogging outfits. SMWBO later asked why it took two hours to complete what is typically a half-hour job. I told her I needed to start spending more time in the front yard. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That's why you're the Professor! |
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