Old Crab asks.....could you hold your temper..........
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......ah me. Lord have mercy upon me! Where to begin? Today started right enough. School is out for the summer and there is an abundance of cheap high-school labor around. I caught one and we settled on his price for a day of labor doing some house maintainence. I hooked up the pressure washer and we began to clean my siding. Something the aluminum siding salesman tend to ignore when selling the stuff. Mildew and mold mostly. My dear old Dad asked if he could mow the lawn. The lawn is about 4.7 acres by the way. I told him to go ahead, but to check the lawn for limbs and large rocks, (which tend to almost magically grow up out of the ground over night) so that the mower wouldn't run over them and dull the blades. Things were going just peachy until.....Dad ran over one of my 100 irrigation hoses. ($1.25 a foot). Oh well. Nothing a good repair kit couldn't handle....if we could untangle it from under the mower. Had to get the ramps out and haul the mower up by hand. Yep some 10 feet of hose was tangled up around the 3 mower blades. I had to slice it out. Then it was back to work on the house. After about 2 hours I felt something and thought my flip-flop was stuck on the ladder rung and I didn't give it a second thought until I saw General JEB "Jeb" Stuart hauling a out of the Pecan trees. I looked down to see what he was after and a foot long Copperhead was chewing on my left flip-flop. Pandamonium ensued of course. My young high school laborer immediately scrambled as high as he could go on his ladder and I did the same. I assured Brian not to worry. General JEB Stuart would take care of the snake and just as quickly as I said that, he had it and was triumphly stalking off to feast upon his prowness. Well it used to be that had all this taken place a year ago I would have had a temper tantrum beyond measure. However, as time goes by and I've come to some conclusions about my temper that I've never liked I've changed...somehow. I still get angry, but as my Doctor has told me "I got to learn to control my temper,.......and my blood pressure...or I'll have a stroke". There is more to life.....and life I've found, no matter how hard scrabble it is....can and does have it's memorable and humorful moments. As Pint can attest to. He was watching and laughing at us all day....from the safety of his back porch... of course.
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], he bets me it's a Distributor module, and swears he can have it 'sorted'. I tell him I don't want a hit taken out on it, I just want it going again.
