> > > > Today starts my third week without a lawn mover. It's still in the shop. I guess this is their busy season. The grass is knee high in places and some of it is going to seed. I hope the neighbors don't drum me out of the neighborhood. Everybody else's lawn looks great. We have had enough rain, and those cool days are great for growing grass. If I can't get the mower back soon I will have to break down and hire it done. I can't go off to Alaska and leave my yard looking like a hay field. Hmmmmmm. I wonder if I can get a little baler to fit that mower.
> > > > Howard
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> > > Before you "bale" on your lawn, why don't you borrow a mower from one of your neighbours? Clearly their lawns are so well groomed that their mowers enjoy significant down time.
> > >
> > > ^v^:)^v^
> > > F"or you could always hop off the boat in Alaska and seek political asylum"B
> >
> > I debated for a while about the proper spelling, and I'm still too lazy to look it up, but it seems like you bail the water out of a boat, you use a parachute to bail out of an airplane, and you don't get out of jail without paying your bail, but for some reason, my brain insisted that a bale of hay was spelled differently. Right now I am in Georgia, a three hour ride from my dictionary, so I guess I need to go to Word and check it out. But I still have other projects that have a higher priority. Coffee and a ginger snap for example.
> > Howard
> >
>
> You spelled "bale of hay" correctly. I was punning, because you were about to "bail", i.e. give up, on your lawn because it looked like hay you could "bale".
>
> ^v^:)^v^
> F"but a ginger snap is still no excuse for poor spelling"B

Yes, I see. That's much clearer now that I've had my coffee. But I think I ate that last ginger snap* last night.
Howard
* Sugar free ginger snaps, of course.