I was chatting with my friend just now and asked him what sort of pedals his son has and he asked What, you mean on his bike and I was like Yeah, dude, I need to know if he’s riding Shimano or what.
I mean, come on, man.
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Our Love’s in Jeopardy is a great song/video, and I’m about to listen to it for the first time in a while
This was an absolutely terrible idea.
Song’s been stuck in my head for a week.
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Roger Cook, longtime landscaping expert from This Old House, after a lengthy illness. He was 70.
Roger Cook Dies: ‘This Old House’ Longtime Landscape Expert Was 70 (yahoo.com)
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Aw, man. Love the TOH guys.
Their accents and easy to dig ground could be offputting but it was always a good watch 
Hate that.
Color me old, but I enjoy ToH. Quite a few offerings on YT.
They added a new landscape expert a few years ago and I guess this was why.
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The accents are my favorite part! (aside from the knowledgeable advice and all that)
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Yeah, Cook left the show a number of years ago due to his health. He never disclosed his illness, but word is he had Parkinson’s Disease. I always enjoyed his work on the show.
The easy to dig holes always got me. They’d show them dig a hole in a few minutes, and I’m thinking it’d take me a shovel, a pickaxe, a breaker bar, post hole digger, power auger and five hours to get a hole that deep in Houston.
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Smaht guys too.
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I have to include a garden hose in that list. And a sacrificial pair of boots. There’s less clay per cubic inch in adobe than in our soil.
My parents now live on the I-20 corridor in East Texas near Big Sandy.
The name is accurate. You can dig holes there easily. The soil won’t hold water for shit and you can’t have carpet in the house because the sand will tear it up, but you can dig a hole in no time.
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What now?
Our caliche and limestone laugh at people who try to make hole-digging easier by soaking the ground.
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I’m glad someone understands it
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It’s mostly too wash the clay off the digging implements.
As you scrape it off.
But I don’t doubt that hole-digging sucks in central Texas too.
Whenever we buy a new shrub or tree, they ask whether we want to pay them to plant it. Yes, please; that’s why I worked hard for 45 years and saved up money.
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Ha Ha Ha. And I laugh double if you wet it. Houston? Lefty knows.
Edith Royal
Damn.
I have to remind myself often of the fact that I worked and saved for 45 years was so I could pay people to do stuff for me when I retired. I was always a DIY guy. I’m pretty handy at a lot of things. It was hard at first. Then after I burned myself and had to get skin grafts on my right forearm and right leg from knee to ankle, it started getting easier. With my current condition, hiring jobs out, has become a welcome luxury.