Farmer
Grumpy?
Well, that’s what it seems like I’ve become!
Though we only have a couple of acres, since this is our first season
- we have to start from scratch! I am converting the former pasture
into an orchard. That means putting in fruit trees! But you also
have to mow the pasture, er- orchard!
My new tractor conked out on me last month, so
I was kept awake by THOUSANDS of mocking, jeering, dandelions who
knew I couldn’t mow them! They kept laughing and giggling: "Blow me!
Blow me!" Well, you know dandelions!
Willy with our first apple tree, making
our orchard official! Note the dandelion infestation!
That’s OK! I made those dandelion
scream in fear and pain!
Crop Circles?
No, just erstwhile dandelion!
Willy’s rosebush project is going
well.
But we’ve also been planting a lot
of firs and pines. We-re sprucing up our fir perimeter with a lot of
seedlings acquired locally.
Willy breaks ground for new seedlings
and later plants carefully.
Willy has adapted well!
He is doing fine in our bucolic
surroundings and finds himself quite busy with farm life. Oh well
then - orchard
life!
He rakes up all those slain dandelion and also
hangs the wash. The first one, by the way, since we elected to
procure our own washing machine instead of throwing all those
quarters away at the Laundromat!
Here Willy works out with some Black
Belts at Sumi Dojo in an Aikido class!
Yeah, we keep busy! There’s always LOTS to do
around here! One wouldn’t think so, this being a sparsely populated
area. I transferred my American Legion membership to Sidney, NY. Sure
enough, they elected me to something during my first elections
here!
The newly elected officers of American Legion
Charles L. Jacobi Post 183:
You can see me off near the right in
the yellow tie. I’m their new Sgt-at-Arms.
Ha-Yo and Armin are still toughing it out in
Massachusetts, where Armin plans a busy summer with his Upward Bound
college prep involvement. Willy made the local paper for being on the
Honor Roll! I’m keeping very busy trying to get all my plantin’ done
before Summer! There, I’m even starting to sound like a local!
Meanwhile, I’m still trying to generate a supplemental income on the
Internet. I have hooked up with an outfit which has found a way to
have you pay off your home mortgage MANY years earlier and building
equity MANY years earlier while saving you MANY THOUSANDS of DOLLARS
- without COSTING you anything extra! That’s right! It’s a FREE
service! E-mail me and I’ll tell you more. Seriously, it’s a great
deal! You get your mortgage paid off faster, your house will belong
to you quicker and it won’t cost you anything extra! Talk to
me!
And don't forget to visit my online store (the
link is on the index page) for many interesting self and business
help books and cassettes. There are other great links to explore as
well.
…from the
Archives:
Mary Jane and I at our June wedding in
1971
See you next month!