We All Live In An Orange Submarine

[sunandsand]

Oddly enough, no updates from the southern front. Submarine Kubota is still chugging along, not well, but still chugging, new Kubota owner hasn't been around for a week or so.

We've had rain, rain, rain, it is summer in Florida and not much is getting done. The new Kubota owner doesn't live on his property here yet, so he's working during the week and clearing on weekends when his wife doesn't find "other, more important things" to occupy his "spare" time.

I think she'll "understand" a bit better when she sees the smooth, clear space where their new house is going to be and remembers the tangled, nasty jungle of brush, thorny vines, scrub palmetto, spindly pine trees and piles of dead branches that were there just a short time ago. She looked at it "before" and refused to step out of the SUV . . .

I'll advise as things develop, right now nothing new is going on.

Be patient, I know he'll surprise us ;-)

Best Regards,

Mike/Florida

 

[Jchonline]

Holy cow. Tell him to sell the tractor and all implements. He needs to just get a few popup-books and call it a day. He should not be in control of anything else.

 

[sunandsand]

Prefer he not sell the tractor and the implements. I might have to mow the airstrip, I'd *really* rather he do it. Eventually, it will break and then he will either have to fix it or buy a new one. Not having a tractor at all isn't an option for him. Besides, it is HIS tractor and if he chooses to operate it in a way that has other people shaking their heads sadly, that's his prerogative. There's no Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Tractors, the owner's wallet keeps score on that. (Local Kubota dealer just built a brand new building - looks like a Lexus dealership - and somebody is going to have to help them pay for it. Wonder who that might be?)

Different subject . . .

Earlier today I was at a film-making event. There's a group here that makes movie shorts, occasionally does commercials, etc. (The top of the back of my head has starred in two commercials and a training video.) This stuff is solidly G-rated, if it weren't, my wife would kill me. Slowly.

Anyway, during the lunch break I found myself sitting with three of the actors and enjoying the worst slice of pizza I've had in years. I didn't even have to pay for it, and I still felt cheated.

The three ladies were talking about feeling dis-empowered because they were over 29 years of age.

I suggested that if they wanted to feel empowered, I'd teach them to drive my tractor because then they could destroy anything they could drive over, which is pretty much anything (even though it is not a real big tractor).

Their jaws dropped . . . "But you don't look like the kind of person who would own a tractor!"

I did NOT go down the route of saying "And what does the kind of person who would own a tractor look like?" Instead, I repeated my offer, come over and learn to drive a tractor, it is good for your confidence and self image! (And they might wind up doing some mowing for me.)

Best Regards,

Mike/Florida