The Palmville Globe Volume 1 Number 19
Man Upsets Colony
Joe McDonnell, 78 and a resident of Palmville Twp, Minnesota, recently evicted several hundred ants from his dirt pile. "This is high quality dirt," McDonnell tells the press. "Every spring we need good soil for flower pots and to fill low spots in the yard, etc. It's much cheaper to have a load of dirt delivered to the yard vs buying ten pound bags at the greenhouse. A load of dirt lasts many years. I put a tarp under the pile and another tarp on top to keep out weeds. But the weeds are relentless and with the weeds come ants. We shovel the dirt we want onto another tarp where it's easy to pull out the weeds, but the ants scurry about for several days in a confused state. I feel sorry for them but I know they'll be ok."
Man Smooths Road
In a related story, Joe McDonnell, 78 and an amateur road engineer, recently ordered a half load of gravel for his road. "The road from the highway into our yard is narrow, with steep sides," McDonnell tells reporters. "It's the kind of road, if you're not careful, you can slide into the ditch, especially in winter. In the spring the gullies in the road make themselves felt, so I order a half load of gravel to fill the worst areas. A friend tells me the gravel will eventually be squished out into the grassy sides. What I really need he says is someone with a heavy blade behind a tractor to pull the grassy sides up into the center. Driving on the clods will shake out the gravel and that will fill the gullies. My question to him is, where do I find such a person with a blade like that. No answer. The gullies are filled now and it will be 2 or 3 years before they're bad enough to need another half load."
Squib Cellar
The world is divided between those who want everything to be as easy as pie and those who want it to be a piece of cake.
Triple vision is the goal-
Eyes that see what’s right in front of us
Mind that sees the universe
Soul that sees the world past hope and fear
I sometimes text in a way to keep the predictive text flowing comma period
If you fail to let a person vent, they’ll spurt lava when you don’t expect it.
If I want to remember where I put something, I put it in a prominent place, but not so prominent that I knock it over. Especially glasses of milk.
During courtship the lovers build Potemkin Villages that mirror each other.
Your wish is my command.
(With the understanding that there will be a discussion period wherein I attempt to talk you out of at least modify your wish.)
There are three kinds of preachers attempting to reveal God’s love for us: the first does it smoothly, the second does it clumsily, the third does it hatefully.
I like your triple vision idea, but what of the body that lives it all out?
ReplyDeleteI agree with teapoetry - seems like maybe there are even more than four facets to the model - the other senses, eps. hearing, emotions, an so on. Would make a good salon discussion
ReplyDeleteI think there is a saying about doing something the same way, time after time, and expecting a change; this method being totally useless, because, well nothing changes. And you, being an individual who viscerally hates wasting money -- even the smallest amount -- even once, dismisses not repairing road the correct way because you don't have the heart to spend the money it requires, once. You ought to examine that.
ReplyDeleteYears ago, a local Palmville gravel hauler refused to sell gravel to me, until I repaired our winding road, which was ill-maintained by me. The road was so bad at times (as its story spread) the older school bus driver for our route retired the year before my daughter started school. I purchased a three-point blade for my tractor and learned how to work my road into shape; but I no longer have that blade. Now, because the road is wider, and its base well packed, puddles don't often form. A simple drag can smooth it out.
You can afford to hire someone to rework your road, once. The Palmville gravel hauler would probably do it, as well as the gravel hauler on the SW edge of Wannaska. I think you are so well known, and respected, that you could readily find others to quickly do the work if you asked around, -- and still utilize the half load of gravel you have already spread on it; an additional load would probably do it. I think your wife would enjoy driving on a good road for a change; I recall such a conversation years ago. Work the shoulders in, crown the road a little, slope the sides so water drains off of it and into the ditch, maybe seed the sides to grass and make them easier to mow. Invest in a good road.