The House and Me Smell like Dark Fired Tobacco

[Gale Hawkins]

You may think that my comments are harsh. I have seen too many family and friends murdered, OD and die or screw up their lives over drugs. One spent 7 years in Sing-Sing for a drug deal gone bad, he graduated high school with better grades than I did, I became an engineer and he went to the house of many rooms.

As for alcohol, wine with a meal, or beer with a sandwich for me.

I have seen close friends waste away from boozs.

For sure it is better to use legal drugs than the other kind but best to not need any thing stronger than tea or coffee to be happy and have a good time. Alcohol abuse did in all of my Dad's brothers so I decided to never touch it even at church.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Well after the huge rain storm (same time 4000 black birds fail out of the sky in AR) clearly use the 13K pound back hoe to move four bundles at a time was out of the question.

So I pulled the brush deck off the DR mower and put on the wheeled 42" mower deck. I was able to move 3 bundles at a time with it since it weights 12,650 pounds lighter and did not have the pain of getting on and off the BH either. After four hours today I think I am about 1/3 finished moving the truck load but no rain is forecast for about two weeks so by working a few hours and resting a few days I should have them spread before the next forecasted rain.

Because the DR does not have steer brakes making a truck out of it means you need to stay on the level (not possible at our place) or go straight up or down the hills.

I really should have bought a DR years ago but thanks in part to posts here at least we have one now.