Gardening Mistakes

[ducks4you]

I wanted to share the stupid thing I did last year. I had one of these:
http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/04/92/06/15/0004920615040_500X500.jpg
that I LOVED for digging deep holes. So, one of the few times I DIDN'T put away my toys last summer, I pushed tilling in between my beds until there was NO LIGHT, save the streetlamp. Couldn't see what I was doing and I destroyed my shovel with my tiller.
AARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!! SOOO mad at myself, and I can't really afford to replace it right now.
Anybody else want to give newbies a few laughs? =b

 

[digitS']

Ducks', I might have done something like that deliberately. No, probably not . . . But, I don't have the best relationship with machines and even hand tools. There are enough mistakes in any of my days to fill a couple of pages!

Just yesterday, I was using the grease gun on the tiller. A week ago, I had the cheap little thing out for the pickup and thinking how I don't use it often enuf to recognize whether it is full or not. The pickup dripped excess grease in the driveway for several hours, proving that the gun was plenty full when I started!

So, it was empty when I started on the tiller. Had to change the cartridge. I remember thinking the last time I did that how clever that the cartridge could just be dropped in without removing the foil under the cap. Of course, the pressure from pumping it would just pop that foil open, no fuss, no muss. Where did that ridiculous memory come from? Total mess after I tried that and then had to take the cartridge out and start over!

I really have to throw tools away or I will just keep compensating for their age and weaknesses to the point where I won't get anything done! I guy I used to work for said that he knew he could trust me with his stinkin' new combine because I'd fret over it. I don't like infernal combustion machines! I'm barely able to tolerate hand tools! Some presume to put out all that smoke and noise while imposing all those demands on me! You'd think that they imagined themselves alive . . .

Another boss listened to me say that there is seldom a reason to break a tool or machine and responded, "not if you never work it hard enough."

He was a "corporate" boss, knew nothing about what needed to be done or how it was done. I just gave him the hairy eyeball.

Be forgiving, Ducks', and try to remember how you did something right. They say there are many ways to do something right. I 'll tell you, there are a helluva lot more ways to do them wrong.

Steve

 

[baymule]

So sorry about your shovel @ducks4you. I hate it when I screw up something and can't blame it on somebody else. My middle name is Grace and it is NOT a descriptive term. I was laying flooring in the entryway and had to make a cut in a plank. I carefully measured, marked, drew a straight line, took it outside and cut it. Brought it back in and I had cut it backwards. How in the world did I do that? Carefully I re-measured, re-marked, re-cut and laid the plank in place--CUT BACKWARDS AGAIN. I went on to cut that darn plank backwards FIVE TIMES. I finally got it right and I still don't know what went wrong.

 

[Wishin']