I cut the lawn on my garden tractor sitting on a very pricey foam cushion....and with a baggy jacket on, regardless of the heat....darn bumpy out there, and given the view of the road...somethings are just best unseen.

Hiring good looking guys to do lawn work for me would be, well, frustrating.

OK you guys, enough.

Did I tell you about my recent yardman episode? My step-mom (Thanks Mom!) said they were honest. They get here. It's a country fellow with a really spiffy hairstyle. Found out he's a used-car salesman and does yards in his spare time. He has his grandson with him. He asks me what I want done during the time he's here. We've got some trees that are too close to the house, so I ask him if he can cut down the trees we show him. Sure mam, no problem.

A little later I hear this thud on the outside wall beside me by the computer and I cringe. I look out the window and he has his saw stuck in the tree and they are trying to pitch a wooden block up into the tree with a rope attached to it. This is about a foot from a big window where I am sitting on the other side of it. Hit the house twice. I send my husband out and it seems they are trying to lodge the block in the tree to pull it down. He shows them how to attach a thing called a "come-along" to it to pull it down. This takes awhile and my concrete garden bench suffers a near miss. And there is this tree in the back yard that is dead. We wanted it down before it fell on the house. He shows them this one and comes in the house to get some water.

We are discussing the fiasco and we hear this crack and a boom. Yep..you guessed it, the tree fell on the house and dented the metal roof we have. (Lots of folks in the country have metal roofs) We were lucky, it hit a corner and rolled off so not TOO much damage.

I just wanted to crawl in a closet by then. He managed to weed-eat and edge the front yard without much damage. Talk about dumb and dumber. At one point I looked out and the grandson has a rope attached to the tree and is pulling. No way it would fall like that.

This was really trying. My husband can't do any yard work yet and we have acres. When all of this is finished and I've paid the yard man for work that had to be done. I'm sitting here saying. Billye will not kill "Dumb and Dumber".

We really need more work done just to keep the jungle back. But I don't think at this rate we can afford these guys.

Just thought I'd take your fantasy back to reality.
Billye