it was a week to be sure. i remember it well...
i had dinner with mark mushet at topanga on...i think...wed?...shit...maybe it was tuesday...nope, wed. we don't eat together nearly enough so i should be able to remember this details, when it was, more clearly...anyhow...nice to sit down with him. his magazine,
the vancouver review, has been nominated, again, for some magazine (duh) awards and he should be proud of that....good for you, and his finer better half and other half of the magazine, gudrun will. we ate like champs and then went back to his place where i saw some things i can't report on, kind of, stole some cd's to listen to and then split...i'm like that.
fawn and i made the scene at savary island pie company as well this week...and then afterwards i ran a few errands with her as well - mac cosmetics first followed by american apparel. it's always great to hang out with the fawnz....
cut a few lawns this week, more than a few, including judy's lawn - mother of jessica (who's lawn i also cut...that sounds weird...) and wife of tom zallen - one of the world's great guys..he still is even though he's gone...and the russian mafia lawn out in burnaby, except it turned out that the russian woman i met the first time, is/was not the 'russian'. she was and is the mother in law and this time i met the actual russian'..it was confusing at first but i figured it out...maybe you had to be there.
yesterday was a six lawn day...big day. that's all i have to say about that.
today, two lawns - including a brand new client which is always nice (and they seem really nice and regular..a bit of a shocker...lol) and a nice big sandwich at bosa - garbs' favorite sandwich - the bosa club....it's a fuckin meal to be sure.
marcy gave me some bedding plants for the deck so i'm kinda excited about that...i love the flowers on the deck...more therapy...thanks marcy...
and now, i wait for the finals of the stanley cup layoffs to begin...the mighty wings against the penguins. and i'll say it right now...i'm not that concerned with who wins as long as it goes at least six games...it's been a long time since there was a match-up like this one...it should be very entertaining...
ok...rock on.
g. xo
nice new lawn at 43rd and fraser...
i cut this one after the guy who lives i that place came across the road saying, "hey!"...and then...you know it's a long story that's kinda funny in it's long form but maybe it won't translate here...nice guy. i was happy to cut his lawn.
my first mower finally bites the dust. i was given this mower when i first started lawn order by dan cervin, a godd guy and co-worker. it's finally had to be retired. the engine is still good so i'll use it for parts, but the rest is shitola. see ya buddy - you were a good mower, i'll miss ya.
yes...there were some pics here....now they're gone...
ang and i kicked some lawn order ass today - including (quite possibly) the longest grass i've ever had to cut...so long it almost completely obscured the mower from view...ang was give 'er big time today...atta girl!
what the....?
the garbs and i went to see the mariners play the boston red sox yesterday in seattle...i had cut a lawn in the morning and then, for some reason, we didn't eat again until we were in seattle around 4 p.m....we had gone out to get larry to take him instead of the elephant and issy had given us some muffins but that was it....so when we got to seattle we were starvin'...and ate too much in a short amount of time...
full mullet action.
blurry seattle action.
garbs loves the blanket.
garbs movin'!
more movin'.
tonight we all went out to topanga for some grub...i decided i needed to try on everyone's sunglasses...katherine's, corie's...and eat like a champ as well...
i've cut and do cut a few lawns in burnaby..i don't mind. my main men steve, leroy and al live out there so...it can't be a bad place.. sure, it's a drive but if i do it early enough or later in the day, it's easy...yesterday a woman called me up and left a message on the lawn order hotline, and through both broken english and a harsh phone connection, gathered that she needed it done by 11 a.m. this morning...ok. fine. so after another actual one on one conversation i figured out where she lived - basically at the foot of burnaby mountain...holy cow! and that i had to enter from the alley or something...once i got there i discovered it was a completely wierd area to navigate and that her street, or drive or alley, wasn't one they decided to put actual signs on....why bother? and since i had forgotten my phone at home...i couldn't call her....good times. 8:45 a.m. on a sunday morning...and no phone. i finally found it mainly because it was the only lawn near where she had said she lived that looked like a typical lawn order lawn...and so it began...
marcy gave me some plants for the window boxes...they're gonna be great!
the other night at topanga mishi figured the new store next to poontango was meant for her...all black and white...
put and old mower body out and someone will take it...pronto.
it was a week to be sure. i remember it well...
i cut this one after the guy who lives i that place came across the road saying, "hey!"...and then...you know it's a long story that's kinda funny in it's long form but maybe it won't translate here...nice guy. i was happy to cut his lawn.
my first mower finally bites the dust. i was given this mower when i first started lawn order by dan cervin, a godd guy and co-worker. it's finally had to be retired. the engine is still good so i'll use it for parts, but the rest is shitola. see ya buddy - you were a good mower, i'll miss ya.
this is laurie mercer. i cut his lawn. he owes me money. (please refer to the blog dated may 13th entitled 'assholes, dog shit and rim-lickers...' for details on this problema.) i did e.mail him and asked him what he meant by fair' when he only paid me part of the money he owed me - no response. so....like another vancouver (now kelowna) deatbeat - rich rock, he has decided not to pay me - seemingly. nice. and just so it's out there and this question is and has been answered, there was never any debate about cost of cutting his lawn - the good guy family and friends price of $25.00 per cut, or the total amount owed for almost and entire season of cutting.
last week i made mention of my pal jeff but never gave any details as something else got in the way...jeff and i used to work together at cbc many moons ago and he was the technician of most of the shows i did. he was the main man behind the controls for nightlines with my radio mentor david wisdom - no better radio man in canada as far as i'm concerned....jeff 'the hammer', 'the hitman' henschel....he's left cbc as well and become a man on the move...he's now doing sound for documentary films mainly and travels all over the world working....he's lookin' good and always has a smile on his face....another one of the good ones. check out his site...
tennis court near the BOC.
dinner tonight.
yup...i finally did something i said i'd never do...and i meant it when i said it. but..i did it anyways. i bought myself a new mower...a new sears craftsman push 6.75 hp baby,three in one rear bagger. nice. and it's first run was up at judy's place today. nice cut i think. i just wanted to show it off...
