With the move to long-term contractual indebtedness, there has been a small wave of thing acquisition that canot go unmentioned, and not just the junior gin-soaked popinjay training kit. These are things that have worked and I recommend:
- My Dolly: I was not aware that what I know as a dolly in Canada is a hand truck in the States. But there is
no doubt aoub t the fact that the move was made on a Model PJD2223A Harper Nylon Dual Hand Truck (Jr). This thing was sixty bucks or so at the Home Depot and at any given time has move two rolled up futons, or a six foot tall computer desk or umpteen boxes of books. With a removable handle (bright yellow in my version) it flips from a two-wheel box jockey to a four-wheel table on wheels. It has saves both back and patience. - Bankers Boxes: In the good old days, you went to the NSLC and picked up wine boxes and rum boxes and moved your stuff in those.
[Don't try it with the PEILLC, however, as apparently those boxes are valuable assets that only a fool would think of wanting for free, thus earning you the locally classic yet over-used dirty look abaft.] Now, I am a man and I go and buy bankers boxes when I move. Not the big ones, either. The smaller letter sized one will do. Because they are all the same size and very sturdy you can stack a whack of them on your Harper Nylon Dual Hand Truck (Jr). And because you bought the small ones you can remove them without fear of hoisting an inadvertantly 400 lb one that wrenches the back. Slow and steady wins the race. And they also provide sensible storage for the stuff that does not see daylight. - The Scott Classic: Who the hell needs a Briggs and Stratton
in the sub-urbs. The lawn I now own takes 15 minutes to mow. So I own a green Scotts Classic mower with a fancy green paint job and bright orange wheels. I puff about as much with a push gasoline mower but without the blue fog of exhaust. Cheaper to buy, cheaper to run and a brief nod to exercise before the self-inflicted prize of a cold drink.
Comments
Hans - August 22, 2006 8:39 AM
The PEILCC has always provided me with boxes for moving. Maybe they could tell you were "from away"?
Alan - August 22, 2006 8:41 AM
Wow. And they could even probably smell that you were a Liberal, given the known hiring practices at the PEILLC. You likely have it. I was tainted. I likely gave myself away with using words like "may" and "please".
gr - August 22, 2006 8:57 AM
But Alan, what about the trimming? We got us a black and decker cordless electric weedwhacker this spring. The edges of the yard start to tremble and shake when they see me coming with that baby...
Hans - August 22, 2006 9:16 AM
you said "please"? i see: you were thumbing your nose at the locals with your uppity non-island ways. no wonder. you probably said "take it easy" instead of "take 'er easy" too. talk about putting on the dog. (PS: thanks for using the past tense. i am no longer a card carrying party member.)
Alan - August 22, 2006 9:47 AM
Your Ogdensburigan centrality is betraying you. Being a Bluenoser I clearly would never said "take it/'er easy" as that sounds like something a trucker from Manitoba might say. The proper valediction would be "foyness koynd" or "sho nuff" or even "seeya layda" if you know what I mean. But the confusion caused by the outer world is legendary, I admit. I was once in a musselry in Stanley Bridge and asked for "Ko-hogs" and was responded to by the clerk with the polite question "how many, sir" to which we were assaulted with "wha? wha chu tawking 'bout? Qwa-Hawgs?" I looked at the clerk and said "you must be from Nova Scotia". He nodded and, as I recall, was back there again in a matter of weeks being someone not needing the balm of shelter from the normal events of human existence.
Alan - August 22, 2006 9:49 AM
Gary: I am investigating the availability an old long-handled scissor job. Manual. Imagine. I will also be investing in a shovel for snow.
Alan - August 22, 2006 9:53 AM
Perchance these.
Hans - August 22, 2006 10:18 AM
Curses. I knew someday my Ogdensburgian centrality would be my achilles heel.
Matt Fletcher - August 22, 2006 10:20 AM
I am very familiar with the Scott's Classic model, as I spent most of my later youth mowing my family's suburban lawn with one. Good choice.
gr - August 22, 2006 10:34 AM
Alan, your committment to non-powered lawn tools is stunning. The wife and I lived in the woods with hand powered everything until this year when my aching back cried out for a little powered assistance.
As for shovels, I suggest getting one of these aluminum jobs that farm supply places sell year round--a big sturdy scoop, which in farms they use for shoveling sh!t, but just grand for snow.
Robert Paterson - August 23, 2006 7:12 AM
We have 4 acres to mow and use a big ride on but all the detail mowing is done with a mower like yours and it does a great job
Gordo - August 27, 2006 9:37 PM
You right, Alan. Houses <i>ought</i> to have flag poles, but so few do. Ours is but a minor maple-leafed blip in a sea of nothingness that is the 'burbs. Rather dishearttening to say the least.