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RetiredToker76

RetiredToker76

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We've gone from 2 separate rakings totaling upwards of 60, 30-gallon bags for the lawn crews to take off to about 20 total bags by cutting down 2 trees. Ian already knocked down the first half of the season's leaves, the rest will come down between now and Feb. I have one branch that fell that I can't for the life of me figure out how I'm going to get down without hiring a pro or buying a ladder for this one and only job. :-/

Still not allowed to do yard work after the surgery, so things are going to go to hell this month. May have to borrow someone's gas lawn mower, I'm not sure Sparky the Electric mower will take down the weeds once I'm allowed to mow again.
 
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RetiredToker76

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curious2garden said:
My husband got his first leaf blower and he's loving it.
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When my wife and I got our house after 10 years of apartment living, I went bonkers at Lowes with the new credit card. I came home with the 'lawn suite' of hardware. I rigged up the leaf blower attachment to the 'all in one edger, blower, wacker, trimmer, tiller, coffee maker' power head and just let out a Tim Allen growl. My wife just rolled her eyes and walked in. She has no clue how many yards I raked while mowing lawns as a teen because my dad was too much of a cheap skate to buy a blower or a mulching mower.
 
Rsawr

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Jeffislovinlife said:
For about the first 4 mouths he eats medium male rats and he only eats white rats lol
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Big appetite! What a good scaley friend. Do you keep him in his tank, or do you chill with him, too?
Blaze ate crickets, and she loved to play "fetch" where I would hold one just out of reach and she would do a big dive for it, and inevitably after "catching" it she would end up in my hair chewing the damn thing.
 
Jeffislovinlife

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Rsawr said:
Big appetite! What a good scaley friend. Do you keep him in his tank, or do you chill with him, too?
Blaze ate crickets, and she loved to play "fetch" where I would hold one just out of reach and she would do a big dive for it, and inevitably after "catching" it she would end up in my hair chewing the damn thing.
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It's been a little less lately since we got Olden all Odin thinks is wow that string moves on its own can I play with it but yeah I chill with him all the time
 
curious2garden

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RetiredToker76 said:
When my wife and I got our house after 10 years of apartment living, I went bonkers at Lowes with the new credit card. I came home with the 'lawn suite' of hardware. I rigged up the leaf blower attachment to the 'all in one edger, blower, wacker, trimmer, tiller, coffee maker' power head and just let out a Tim Allen growl. My wife just rolled her eyes and walked in. She has no clue how many yards I raked while mowing lawns as a teen because my dad was too much of a cheap skate to buy a blower or a mulching mower.
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We were at lawnmower replacement age. I considered the rebuild of the old one but I was on the fence about that, but a good friend recommended EGO and I have to say each product has been quality. The edger is amazing.
 
RetiredToker76

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curious2garden said:
We were at lawnmower replacement age. I considered the rebuild of the old one but I was on the fence about that, but a good friend recommended EGO and I have to say each product has been quality. The edger is amazing.
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My 'new homeowner purchase' set started to die in 2020, first the mower then the weed whacker attachment broke. They've both been replaced with the EGO versions. My local lowes didn't have the muti-head EGO unit so I just got the stand alone weed wacker. The blower is probably going to be next as I think the bearings are starting to die from the sound they've been making. I like the electric stuff so far. I adopted battery power tools in the late 90's - early 2000's and got bitten by not having the right line of batteries and a set of tools that were useless and no replacement batteries, so I treded lightly into battery based lawn equipment.
 
lokie

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RetiredToker76 said:
When my wife and I got our house after 10 years of apartment living, I went bonkers at Lowes with the new credit card. I came home with the 'lawn suite' of hardware. I rigged up the leaf blower attachment to the 'all in one edger, blower, wacker, trimmer, tiller, coffee maker' power head and just let out a Tim Allen growl. My wife just rolled her eyes and walked in. She has no clue how many yards I raked while mowing lawns as a teen because my dad was too much of a cheap skate to buy a blower or a mulching mower.
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Every time I asked my dad about getting a "weed eater" his reply was always the same, We don't need a goat.
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It was no surprise that he bought one the next summer after I moved out on my own.
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GreatwhiteNorth

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curious2garden said:
My husband was always so busy yard care was something he dreaded. Since he's retired he's been enjoying it. I talked about a lawn service but he wanted to do it himself? Go figure.
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I just can't bring myself to pay someone to do what it takes me less than an hour to do (riding mower + weed eater) each month (ish).
Not to mention I get to wear a cool "Farmer" hat.
 
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