Truth Hurts

found at 'Fred's Place'

Layne and the boys have decided that if we are to have a shed they would have to give up on waiting for the rain to stop and just get busy.  (It has literally been raining non-stop since March.  I'm not kidding.)
Today they loaded up some wood and got to work. 

Here is a conversation I had with Mitch this afternoon.

mitch - "Mom, come look!"

me - "What's the problem?"

mitch - "What is wrong with my hand?  Something is on my hand!"  He started to sound a little paniced.  He's always been a little worried about having some abnormality.

me - after looking at his hands.  "Oh, that is just a callus.  You'll be fine."

mitch - "A callus!  What's a callus!"

me - "Something that happens to your hands when you work without gloves on.  Especially when  you don't do hard work with your hands very often."

silence.............   ....................    ....................

mitch - "So, now there is physical proof that I'm kind of lazy?"

me - "Guess so."   Couldn't argue with the truth.  He is a master of getting out of things he doesn't want to do.

what goes AROUND comes AROUND

Remember when I enjoyed the moment seeing the guy on the mower on his TINY lawn?

Well, now we are moving to a little house with a TINY lawn.

AND

We only own a riding mower becuase we've always had a big lawn. 

It isn't a zero radius turn mower, so he still has on up on me, but it is a 46" mow deck that will not fit down the side yard. 

When I mentioned this to Layne his only response was,

"There's a side yard?"

Ya, it's TINY.

Thank Goodness for Lazy People

I haven't really been in the mood to laugh lately.

It is my choice, I'm trying not to blame anyone. 

But now and then someone does something that just makes you laugh and you don't even have time to realize that you aren't in the mood to laugh.

Layne and I were driving through town a couple evenings ago and we were in a part of town that was built in the 50's, I'd guess.  The houses are smaller than the older ones and they are really close together.  Needless to say, their lawns are like post stamps.  Tiny. 

So we saw this guy.  Probably in his 30's.  On a new, zero radius turn lawn mower on a lawn that MIGHT take 15 mintues to mow (front & back) with a push mower. 

But the best part (the part that Layne pointed out to me after I busted up and said something) was that he was wearing his ball cap backwards.  You know, so the wind doesn't blow it off. 

No, it wasn't windy.

and

No, his mower couldn't get enough speed to blow his cap off before he was across the yard.  He probably doesn't even completley let out the clutch before it is time to turn it around.  (Those types of mowers probably don't have a clutch, but you get what I'm tyring to say.)

So, this made me laugh harder and I was happy for that. 

I needed to laugh.

(Layne says that 'a man's got to do, what a man's got to do'.  I don't really get that, but I do get the part about being too lazy to do something.....so I guess I wont judge.  I'll just like him because he made me giggle.)