...is better than a great day fishing...although yesterday it would have been hard to make that one stick in my head. i thought the mowers had been put away for the season but one one my clients gave me a call and said he needed one last cut and i did need to give a lawn up on joyce a cut, not that it needed it in a big fashion but, they wanted it so...i loaded up the car and away i went...i kinda got a late start as i had to do some other shit so i was working with the sun, or lack of it so i had to make it all work like clockwork...uh-oh.
after having lunch with senor tornack, i headed up to joyce street and after a quick cut i was on my way over to 43rd and fraser and keith's place...when i got there i saw that he had left the leaves there for me so it wasn't just cutting it was leaf removal as well...great. i had my blower so it wasn't a huge deal but not what i had had in mind as it added just that much more time...and it was also super-cool to see, as i moved the leaves out of the way, that he had been doing some sort of wood cutting in the front yard and all the sawdust and wood bits..and then there were pieces of carrot...huh? anyhow..i was getting it done but it was wierd...
after i did the weed eating i was away...i was gonna make it...then, i was cutting close to a wierd bit of sidewalk that is uneven and all of a sudden the wheel slipped and i was off the edge and whamo! blade into the cement, and the engine stopped dead. fuck! first time i have ever done this....the garbs did it once, and it can happen...bummer...i was actually quite surprised by my calm demeanor after it happened...i just looked at the mower and the lawn and sun going down and stood, and looked...before long i had everything loaded in the car and was making my way back to the shop to get my other mower with the sun setting fast...and i'm a guy who cannot drive fast..we all know that story....
i made my way back there and pulled out the second mower, which i have had problems with as it's getting old, and once i had the bent blade and possibly thrown out of time mower in the lawn order shed, i made sure the old mower would start and....it wouldn't...sun setting...fuck! my calm nature was starting to disappear. i tried and tried and couldn't get it to go...fuck! i pushed it back to the room quickly and as i was doing so smashed into a pole and smashed my left ring finger in the process and and thought i had broken it...fuck! i pulled out the bent blade mower and threw it into the car and made my way back to champion mower on fraser street - where i should have gone in the first place - duh, and bought a new blade...but not sure if the mower would go because when you hit the cement like that, it can throw the engine out of time...so...i made it back to keith's place, and after a lot of pulls on the old cord it finally started but it was clear the timing was outta whack...but somehow i got it all done...and as i was driving away it was time to turn the lights on....perfect.
i went back to the shop, and before putting away all the gear, dragged out all the stuff i wanted to get rid of...for the scrap metal guys...two mowers, some blades and bags...now the alley scrap metal guys can mow some lawns too...
now i had to mail a couple of packages i had in the car - one of which was my old ibook laptop i sold on ebay for much more than i ever thought i'd get for it and a few little toys i had hanging around that some guy in maryland wanted...why is it that when you send packages now you have to fill out a form that not only says what's inside, i get that, but that you have to write down the address it's going to and the return address - again? it's on the package already...so now it's on their twice....i dunno...
and then it was off to ikea with mishi...and i'll tell ya, going to ikea after 6 pm is the way to go...no traffic, no one else really at ikea...in and out...perfect.
i did need a margarita after all that i'll say truthfully....so i did. have one...ok, maybe more than one...my finger is numb today and a little blue...i'll live.
i'm gonna go see a movie.
g. xo
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