[Originally published on May 1, 2012, which means I’ve been retired a year longer than I was thinking I was. Time goes by quick when you’re having fun?]
Post-retirement employment wasn’t long to seek. My wife and I agree that May is our month to aerate our Bermuda grass lawn, and I started the job today, using my Hound Dog Coring Aerator1, bought in anticipation months ago at Lowe’s Home Improvement, Mebane.
The little reddish cylinders are the cores of clay pushed up when I stepped down on the aerator. “Cores”? They’re turds! And I didn’t spend two and a half hours today aerating a small section of lawn, I was turf-turding.
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| A healthy bag of turf turds |
Or if you very recently retired from such a boss....
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Ha ha.. I've never heard of "turf turding" in Australia. I like it! Ain't a sense of humor a grand thing!!
ReplyDeleteAnd a super congratulations to you mile stone of six years. You certainly haven't "let any grass grow under your feet". Or have you? ha!
ReplyDeleteMaybe more weeds than grass. I’ve spent hours in the past few weeks pulling them up, but new ones come, seems like the next day, to replace them.
DeleteI wrote you in an email that I have never seen such a tool in Australia. The following week however, I saw a tractor pulling a PTO driven similar aeratore in the park near our home, leaving the same turf turds all over the place. We are in the beginning of our rainy season - winter.
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