On 8/20/13 8:44 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


"Hank©" wrote in message
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On 8/19/2013 11:56 PM, thumper wrote:
On 8/12/2013 3:09 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

The "banksters" didn't cause the recession. I think it would be more
accurate to call it the "Barney Frank & Co." recession.

You keep making that assertion. I'd like to see you document and
quantify it. I think your proportion is off by an order of magnitude or
so. Show good accounting and I'll accept it.


Mr Luddite doesn't work for peanuts. I doubt you have the resources to
pay him to enlighten you.

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To the contrary, Mr. Luddite indeed now works for peanuts. Mrs. E.
bought him a six pack of Sam Adams for a week's work clearing trees,
branches and briars and using his tractor to create horse riding trails
in the woods beside his house.

Now she has him spreading and packing about 30 yards of stone dust on
the trails so the goofy horses won't trip.





I think I've finally finished buying, toting and spreading bags of mulch
for m'lady. 244 bags this season. I bought it in bulk one year off a
garden supply place that dumped it on my driveway. That was worse than
carrying the bags around the yard in a wheelbarrow. Bagged cedar mulch
lasts longer around here than the slightly cheaper pine mulch.

It's really an exercise in exercise. First, drive to Home Despot. Pull a
flatbed cart to the stacks of mulch, which sometimes are stacked 12'
high. Pull the bags down and stack them on the cart, 20 is the limit.
Pay for them, pull the cart outside and stack the bags in the back of
the SUV. Drive home. Unload the car, stacking the bags on the driveway.
Then, when an area is "ready" for the mulch, stack two bags on the
"hood" of the garden tractor, drive them where they are going to be
placed, slit the bags open, dump the mulch and spread it around.

Even more fun when the bags of mulch are wet.

But it is good exercise.