My neighbor Gus

[69chevelless]

This guy is hilarious, keep the stories comin Hank.

[Hank70SS]

When I walked over to talk to Darryl about throwing mud on the road, I did notice Gus's yard looked very nice after the "Ritual Chinese Bleaching of the Trees". I might look into doing that. Not sure though, with close to 30 trees it could get expensive.

I guess what's her name is a real piece of work. Darryl says she has quite a temper. Gus was having some repair work done on his chimney. Not sure how it started but what's her name kicked over a bucket of mortar. The brick guys almost blew a gasket, packed up all their stuff and left. Now Gus has to try to get them back to finish up the work.

Darryl said Gus has mentioned to him twice recently that he misses Teresa. Now might be a good time to sell your stock in Viagra.

[Hank70SS]

I'll have to try and remember some more Gus stories to tell. In the meantime let me tell you about my former neighbor George. We never hit it off too well but I tried to be a good neighbor and help him when I could.

So one day I see George and his 2 son's tying a rope to the rear bumper of their old Taurus wagon. The other end securely tied to the base of a 30 some year old evergreen bush. Now I can spin all 4 tires on my pickup, on pavement, with a logging chain hooked to a bush like that.

So naturally I assumed they were trying to remove the rear bumper of the Taurus. Well it didn't work, the rope broke. So they tied the rope back together, now who would have guessed it but that damn rope broke again.

Well after the entertainment value of watching them repeat this process a few more times wore off, I offered the use of a logging chain to aid in removing the bumper. Well, George informed me they were trying to remove the bush, not the bumper. So I informed him that it was never going to happen using the Taurus. I drove my pickup over and after a little pulling and chopping at the roots we got it out.

George's brother was the real mechanical brains of the family. So he came over to help change the blades on the lawn tractor. I think George hit the steel culvert that comes under the road while cutting the grass. Anyway, George and the mechanical genius lift the front of the tractor up and stand it upright, balancing on the rear tires and rear fenders.

Well they get the blades off, George goes up to HD and gets some new blades. I notice them monkeying around with a pipe wrench trying to put the new blades on and offered the use of a socket and ratchet. I take the tools over and notice the spindles have a 6 point star pattern and the blades have a 5 point star. I politely mention that he has the wrong blades. Ya, I know he says, they didn't have the right ones so I got these instead.

I asked him if he would please let me know when he was going to be cutting the grass because I wanted to put my vehicles in the garage and myself safe inside the house. I guess he thought better about his plan and put the old blades back on. Mind you the end of one blade was bent down over an inch. He used those blades for the next 3 years on the rare occasions that they went out to plow the lawn.

[RBeckman]

Is that the house to the south of yours? When I was there, it was not mowed.

[Hank70SS]

Originally Posted by RBeckman

Is that the house to the south of yours? When I was there, it was not mowed.

That's the house Ric, not sure if they hadn't plowed recently, they liked to wait until it was at least 6" tall or maybe that was after it was foreclosed and they moved out.