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My 'baby' sister. As the youngest of seven kids, she always was able to get away with things that would get any of the rest of us clobbered. As an adult, she got a very well-paying government job, and yet because of her extravagant spending ways, twice declared bankruptcy. What really did it...

One of our neighbors has a lawn service do hers, and she also has the lawn sprayed once a month. The downside is that I have noticed a significant dropoff in the number of butterflies since that was started. Whether the two are connected, I can't say for sure. I used to have lots of Monarchs and...

Way back when I was a kid- we're talking early '50s- our parents got an electric lawn mower. The housing was cast aluminum, and looked like a UFO from some sci-fi movie, and the cord weighed almost as much as I did. I don't remember how many patches of tape were on it from my older brother...

Prior to this mower, my exposure to cordless tools has been with a couple of Milwaukee 18 volt drill/drivers. The only difference between them is that one has a hammer drill feature for drilling concrete or stone, but the same battery works in both of them. My trimmer/edger/tiller/leaf blower...

When I was a kid, blue jeans with the cuffs rolled up at least twice- cowboy style- was the 'cool' look, but in the '50s and early '60s, cool was a relative thing.

I was perfectly fine with our gas mower- it's only four years old and runs well, but Michele is concerned that if something happens to me, she won't be able to operate it, especially the starting part. This one takes two 40 volt batteries, and on our small lot, it only drains one of them by...

I was feeling better- or at least more human- today, and it wasn't raining, and the grass needed cutting, so I decided to give our new lawn mower it's first real workout. Michele decided to 'go green' with a battery-powered one, so after checking the ratings, we got a Greenworks 21" self...

I was working at odd jobs, like baling hay and chopping weeds in our neighbor's gardens when I was 10, but I was 14 when I got a regular job at a local garage. At first it was just pumping gas, but it grew to where I could do tune-ups, pull and replace engines and transmissions, and assist with...

I'm pretty good at remembering such things, especially since I don't have that many to remember any more.

Still achy, nose still running, sore throat, and a slight buzz from the cold meds, but I'm still above the grass, so there is that...........although it feels like I have to die to get better.

With me, it's a nasty bug that put it's hooks in. Yesterday, I was freezing- I had 2 sweatshirts on, a knit cap, and was wrapped in a blanket, and still shivered- but today was sweating, along with a runny nose, sore throat, and a sinus headache. I don't know what it is, but it sure came on...

Mine is just the default tone- nothing fancy.

I'm not really particular; our gardens have tulips, daffodils, coneflowers, lilies, delphiniums, two types of iris, day lilies, English daisies, butterfly weed, gladiolus, black-eyed Susans, Phlox, dianthus, crocus, clematis, and coreopsis, plus a few others. There are too many to post pictures...

An evap leak refers to the emissions control system that takes gasoline vapors and directs them into the engine instead of the open air. A small leak could be nothing more than a faulty gas cap. As to the valve cover gasket, it depends which engine you have. If it's a 4-cylinder, then no big...

I have 3 Cherry Baby seedlings started, but I'll only be planting 2 of them, as the guy that I used to give the excess to recently passed, and so 2 will be enough for our needs.

That's assuming that it's a pan gasket. But it could also be a front or rear main seal, and if it's the rear main, you have to pull the transaxle to access it, and that ain't no $100 fix. The labor is the biggest part of any of those repairs.

I finally got my potatoes- Pontiac Reds- into their containers. I don't think that we will have any more freezes before they emerge, so they should be safe enough. I have onions, beets, and carrots in the new raised beds, and will be planting the green beans shortly. The flowers are blooming...

I think used is the way to go. Our last new vehicle was a 1998 Dodge 4x4 pickup, which gave good service until it's untimely demise in a multi-car pileup. Our current vehicle is a 2015 Ford Explorer that we bought in 2020. We will probably keep it for another year or so, then trade it in on...

How I hope? Smart, creative, persistent, loyal Reality? Smart, but dull

When I first met her, she was nine, and I was thirteen. It was at a 4-H club meeting, and she was a redheaded holy terror. Finally out of patience, I told her that if I caught her, I would rip off her arm and beat her with the bloody end of it. That happened to be my last year in 4-H, as the...