The Holtonian

Yard Work: I QUIT!

Good Ole dial up... a quick internet shop for the wife for christmas turns into a hour and a half ordeal. I have problems with "Smart" address thingy's when shopping online. They try to tell you the address you type in to ship something to is not an address. Well consider I know it is I think the computer might be wrong on this one.

I should be done with the wife, at least $$ I'm way done.

My pappy is rolling into town tomorrow night. He's a travelin man and travels tons for business. Just when most men might be slowing down and slipping into retirement I think my dad is speeding up. Granted he's of the type that never wants to retire so all the power to him to keep on chuggin.

I attempted to rake the backyard today... big mistake. For one I have a huge back yard with no ryme or reason to it. I mean I have no garden in the mass grass. Its just really a big yard with trees. I need to create some sense of sanity by establishing some boundaries but that costs money. So anyway I attempted with the blower to blow them away from the house back to the woods. BACK YOU!! BACK YOU VILE LEAVES!! Taking them down to the street is just far too far too far too far too far. But pushing them back was a chore due to them being wet and big walnuts still lingering in the yard. I got about half way in a few hours and just was exhausted. I threw in the towel and told the wife that I'd never attempt to rake the back again. I figure I didn't do it last year and the grass/weeds came back.

I did come to the conclusion that for the sake of my yard I need to cut down one of the black walnut trees. They dump walnuts all over my yard and it tore up my new lawn mower something fierce this year. The drive train thingy still isn't fixed due to the nuts. I think if I got a chain saw I could take it down... though I probably won't due to the fact that I've never done that before and have no chain saw.

Hot Stove Note:

I read on STLTODAY.com that Walt Jocketty had a news conference to quiet the masses in st. louis that were calling for the owners head for wasting time and failing to get Gruz, Burnett, and Reggie. Jocketty brought up the fact that last year they let Renteria, Womack, and Matheny walk and failed to get Hudson at the winter meetings but then got Mulder and Eckstein and Gruz. Granted that sort of second option is not out there this year. Unless he trades more of the birds future away. But I found it funny he had to go to the press to sort of quell the rioters.