Friday morning I walked through the living room and caught a glimpse of Hick out front, mowing the yard. The sight was breathtaking! You be the judge:
That's Hick's $1700 mower. The one he drove off and bought one afternoon without telling me, until he drove it by the front porch later that evening as I was snacking the dogs, and I asked where it came from.
He might try to justify it now, though. Because his mowing ensemble came cheap.
Hick swears that he didn't specifically put on that shirt because it matches his mower. I call poppycock!
Hat- $4.00 from Tractor Supply
Overalls- FREE, given to Hick by HOS, who had them given to him for free also
Hemming of the overalls- $5 from a freelance seamstress
T-shirt- FREE, from a tool show in Florida, says DeWalt on the front (maker of hand tools like saws and drills)
Yes, Hick was a meticulous little mower! Even though, as you can see, the summer heat and lack of rain has made that job somewhat unnecessary.
Back and forth he went, vroom-vroom, combing that undergrown yard. Not even giving me a quizzical look for standing on the porch pointing my phone at him until his third trip.
I figured I had enough blog ammunition, and went to the kitchen to wash some dishes. After the water was run, I noticed that I no longer heard the mower. Huh. I went out front to take a gander, and saw THIS:
It was a Hickless mower! Meh. Stranger things that this have happened around this place! I got in T-Hoe and started to town. At the end of the driveway, I encountered Hick rounding the bend from the BARn field on his Gator. He'd run out of gas, and had just enough in a red gas can to finish off the yard.
Hick's not much of a planner, but he can put together a mowing ensemble like nobody's business!
In New Jersey we wait until the grass grows and then we mow...but never with that much style!
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing. When you have this much style, you've gotta mow even before the grass needs it, just to show off your ensemble!
DeleteThat's a lot of grass to mow. I don't miss yard work.
ReplyDeleteThere's another field that size in front of the BARn, and then part of our 10 acres next to it. Hick makes more work than necessary, trying to keep it mowed down to the dirt!
DeleteI think that needs to be Hick's permanent mowing ensemble.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of yard you've got there. I used to want that much, now I know I couldn't possibly care for it. I'd have to plant trees and make it a mini forest, much less mowing that way.
I sometimes wish Hick had just bought a shirt, to match the mower we already had...rather than buying this mower to match his shirt.
DeleteThe back half of our land is wooded. So Hick gets away with only mowing about half of the property.
Val--You should remind Hick that if he mowed in his tighty-whities, he could get a nice, almost-all-over tan....
ReplyDeleteNO! Because he goes for the all-over tan in Poolio!
DeleteI have to get out my Cub Cadet and mow the field today, I can see right now that I won't be looking as good as Hick, he may not be cutting much grass but he's looking good doing it.
ReplyDeleteWith Hick, it's all about appearances. And I don't mean the yard.
DeleteYour husband is indeed lovely in that ensemble!!
ReplyDeleteHe might make the cover of Harper's BIZARRE!
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