Taking to the lifeboats
One or two of you may have noticed an absence of garbage on this site yesterday.
It’s all right if you didn’t. I won’t be offended. Much.
The fact is that the normally calm still waters of life at the Manor have turned in to maelstrom of turbulence and confusion for no apparent reason other than to leave my head spinning and my feet wet.
The week started calmly enough. I even contemplated cutting the grass/meadow as it hasn’t been touched since around September or so and is looking a tad shabby, to put it mildly. Of course the tractor wouldn’t start so I had to charge the battery and leave it overnight. I could have jump started it but to remove the jump leads I would have to get out of the tractor and that would have shut the engine off again. Fucking safety devices!
Shortly after setting up the charger the storm hit. I had to go out and I have hardly been back since. The car has done more mileage this week than in the previous couple of months. The lawn is long forgotten as not only do I not have the time but it has been raining since and the grass is wet to the point of saturation. I am thinking of buying a goat. I believe they don’t have batteries?
Things have quietened down at the moment, long enough for me to fire up the laptop at least. Maybe it’s the eye of the storm in which case things are going to turn chaotic again very shortly?
If you don’t hear from me again for a while you’ll know I’m fighting for my life against the vagaries that life is throwing at me.
I almost wish I was back at work. It’s the first time I have thought that since I retired.
Life was simpler then.
Yuckity yuck!
https://www.accuweather.com/en/ie/dublin/207931/daily-weather-forecast/207931
I doubt it’ll be okay on Saturday for mowing, then it’s back.
With a dog you like, a cat foisted – that you don’t, a sprog on crutches and your other half who knows your weasely cheapskate ways, you do not need a goat. And while they don’t need to be started, they’re a swine to turn off.
If you must, then go buy a spring lamb. Allow it to grow, to areate your lawns, eat your flowers and most weeds. Keep until October, then flog it at considerable profit to the folks who use your nearest mosque.
Buyer collects!
(Oh, can you please, pretty please, get my email off your darned comment reply thing?)
Hah! That’s Dublin. My area apparently is dry[ish] until Sunday so the goat is spared. I wasn’t going to buy one – I was going to offer my garden as grazing for a goat [and a small fee of course].
Grandad.. Goats dont like rain and if you leave them in it they bleat their heads off… also they are browsers…not firefox or chrome, when i kept them they liked everything bar grass!
Sounds quite like Herself?
Thank you for reminding me about mowing the lawn, Grandad. Must get on and do it on Saturday as long as it’s dry. Supposed to be very clement in these parts at the weekend.
All day yesterday and today we are in the clouds. No rain – just fog. As a result everything is still as wet as ever so I doubt if the grass will get cut for another week or two.
We had fine rain and mist yesterday too. That horrible, miserable kind
“Of course the tractor wouldn’t start so I had to charge the battery and leave it overnight”
You really don’t have much luck with batteries, do you?
The AAs and AAAs are fine. It’s the big 12V jobbies that don’t like me. Incidentally, my car battery trouble was down to a dead cell.
Those type of storms will get you every time. And when it rains it usually pours while it’s at it. If you like, I’ll come and bail for you?