![]() ![]() ![]() I chuckle knowing that I may be the only guy in our neighborhood who is still using a push broom to sweep the street after completing my edging work. There is something almost sacred about putting on those old mowing gloves and shoes, pulling the cord, and adding a little creativity as I faithfully complete my weekly lawn work. Personally, I would hate mowing/edging a yard in just 15 minutes like they do. My current mower (a 22″ Honda HRX) will celebrate our 10th anniversary of excellent results together this June.Īfter a new job brought us a few hundred miles further south, we are now living in an area where the majority of our neighbors are (sadly) utilizing foreign labor to mow/edge/maintain their yard.Īs these mowing crews drive by our corner lot and stare at the old now-retired guy still mowing his yard every week (on Thursday, of course), I sometimes wave at them. In 1991, I splurged ($250) and moved up to a new 20″ Honda self-mulching power mower as the capstone of my lifelong mowing journey. Who could resist a sales pitch for a mower which would start on the first pull – EVERY TIME – even on live television! Like many of your readers, I started my mowing career utilizing my family’s Briggs & Stratton mower.Ī few years later, I moved up and purchased a Sears Craftsman “Eager 1” mower around 1971. I later added an 8-track stereo system to impress my friends. Using that money, I was able to buy my first car (a ’68 VW Bug) for $800 cash upon graduating from high school in 1973. I was able to save more than $1,500 at my local bank simply by mowing/edging neighbors’ yards for about $10 per yard. I mowed my family’s yard (gratis) plus a few other lawns in my neighborhood every summer until age 18. I’m now 67 and have been a mowing purist (gasoline-powered mowers) ever since age 12 back in Shreveport, LA. I hope that Outkick is compensating you well for your highly creative work product! It’s been fun to watch your highly-relatable column explode over the past few years. Hi, Joe! I am a long-time reader (since Day 1) of your terrific daily work. Because then I wouldn’t get messages like this from Doug B. I’ve been asked why I don’t just get a PO Box and tell readers to send a self-addressed envelope to request a sticker.Trust me, TNML means quite a bit to the Californians who tell me things like how they put down sod as an eff you to the state government. I’m continuously impressed by the messages about what this mowing league means to people from California to Rhode Island. I wish I could respond to everyone who sent a message with their email requests, but I’d still be typing responses.Last night, I powered through March 2-3 requests.The Twitter DM requests went out on Tuesday, I believe. If you requested a sticker last year, and the email didn’t go to the spam folder, you should have already received a sticker or it should be there within the next few days.It was clearly meant to be for that beautiful TNML sticker to go out after Kyle had waited so long. Coincidence? I can’t wait for the season to begin. This was the truck in front of me coming home from work this Thursday. I received a TNML sticker, on a Thursday no less. I think that I am most proud of that for the month of March.ģ. I am a glass half-full kind of guy, so I know I gave that pup the best 16 years I could. Unfortunately, I had to let go of my dog of 16+ years just before my 41st birthday last Tuesday. The fact that you kept up with an email, from close to a year ago, to send out a sticker is AMAZING! Though I don’t consider it “just” a sticker. I was so jacked up when I saw the TNML return address. I wanted to take a minute to thank you for the TNML sticker. Markquis Nowell was amazing.Īnother great tournament year. Getting very excited about FAU BB thanks for taking care of UT!ī1G ruined their run once again. UCLA not scoring a FG for over 11 minutes in the second half and almost coming back to win what an exciting game! Go Zags! Sweet 16 – Great start to the round and can’t wait to see what happens tomorrow. John from SD agrees with my assessment:.□□ /BFZsRU5qpB- Awful Announcing March 24, 2023 Kevin Harlan laughing in the background, surely thinking that Drew Timme quote was going to end differently. "If people have a problem with that, they can go. ![]()
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