Hey Goog,
STUMP WATCH: Day TWO
So Without having the forethought to photograph this awesome endeavor of stump removal, I struggle to find the words to convey the size and girth of this stump I'm trying to remove from our yard. Hmmm..Think Ron Jeremy’s Girth coupled with John Holmes size? Wait, bad example. SO yeah, even though this thing was cut to the base however many years ago, the stump still goes about 3 to 3 1/2 feet into the ground. Some of the roots are about as thick as my thigh and what I discovered last night….The roots are intertwined with rocks…Like a twisted lovers embrace. What next?? Water fueled fire?. So let’s think of the dimensions….
3-3 ½ feet high
+
4-5 foot diameter
+
Thigh and wrist thick roots
+
dime size blisters
+
Sunburn
= AWESOME
I'm thinking it’s about the size of a smart car and weighs about 300 to 350 pounds. I’ll keep you posted
So right now, I'm listening to Video Kid. Does anyone know who that is? WELL let me tell you. Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords? that’s right. It’s Like trance/house/synth pop mixed with some folk influences. Its pretty rad. Youse in the google machine will have to have a listen. AND…I just found out about Tongan Ninja and you guessed it….That’s Jemaine Clement from FOTC in a NINJA MOVIE. Here is the trailer… I NEED TO SEE THIS. The fact that he’s the villain called Action Fighter (Marvin) says it all really. And with witty dialogue like this…
Action Fighter: And then there was this other guy... I gouged out his eyes, swapped them around, and then replaced them... as a joke!
Or
Action Fighter: So, you are the infamous Gun Man
Gun Man: That's right
Action Fighter: I hear your good with guns
Gun Man: I'm not just good; I'm the best
Action Fighter: I heard you were good. I once knew a man who was good with children. They called him; Children Man. Know him?
Gun Man: I kneecapped him and then I killed him
Action Fighter: Nice
How have I not heard about this in 7 years??… Man…I neeeed to see this.
So until tomorrow Goog.
jerm
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Ever see a man's stump? Guy's like, "Go on, man. I want you to know how it feels. Touch it. Touch my stump."
Monday, June 8, 2009
Weekend of relaxing
Good Morning Goog,
How was your weekend? Mine was Awesome. I got my baby back from her week long stint of big city livin.
All is right with the world now. So how was my weekend you ask? Well, it was OK.
Friday I waited for my Baby to get home so that was a long night full of anticipation, but as I said, she’s back and the world can spin once more. Also, I Bought plants, fertilizer and Planted in my garden. What did I plant you ask? WELL, I planted Green peppers, Jalapeño peppers, Early Girl tomatoes, Beefsteak Tomatoes , Broccoli, Two types of lettuce and onions. All of this is just the beginning. I still have half of the garden to plant.
Saturday? I'm glad you asked? Smally went to him Nana’s for the evening to help her break in her Wii. I'm sure it was a Wii-tastic time. My lady and I chilled out at home after dropping him off and enjoyed the Beautiful sunny day. I had some beers, had some sun, and had some more beers.
Sunday, I removed a rather prickly rose bush from around a tree that I will also be removing. BUT also, I started the task of removing a humongous old stump.
I'm about 8/5 done and it’s a huge task. Again, I underestimated the task and found myself in over my head, BUT I have stick-to-it-iveness. Some of the tree roots are as big around as my thigh. The smaller ones are as big around as my forearm. So there is lot’s of choppin, lots of diggin and lots and lots of topless sweating in the sun. I guess you could say I'm actively tanning.
So needless to say, I’ll be on Root removal patrol this evening and busting my ass some more. J DAMN it feels good to be a gangsta.
jerm
How was your weekend? Mine was Awesome. I got my baby back from her week long stint of big city livin.
All is right with the world now. So how was my weekend you ask? Well, it was OK.
Friday I waited for my Baby to get home so that was a long night full of anticipation, but as I said, she’s back and the world can spin once more. Also, I Bought plants, fertilizer and Planted in my garden. What did I plant you ask? WELL, I planted Green peppers, Jalapeño peppers, Early Girl tomatoes, Beefsteak Tomatoes , Broccoli, Two types of lettuce and onions. All of this is just the beginning. I still have half of the garden to plant.
Saturday? I'm glad you asked? Smally went to him Nana’s for the evening to help her break in her Wii. I'm sure it was a Wii-tastic time. My lady and I chilled out at home after dropping him off and enjoyed the Beautiful sunny day. I had some beers, had some sun, and had some more beers.
Sunday, I removed a rather prickly rose bush from around a tree that I will also be removing. BUT also, I started the task of removing a humongous old stump.
I'm about 8/5 done and it’s a huge task. Again, I underestimated the task and found myself in over my head, BUT I have stick-to-it-iveness. Some of the tree roots are as big around as my thigh. The smaller ones are as big around as my forearm. So there is lot’s of choppin, lots of diggin and lots and lots of topless sweating in the sun. I guess you could say I'm actively tanning.
So needless to say, I’ll be on Root removal patrol this evening and busting my ass some more. J DAMN it feels good to be a gangsta.
jerm
Friday, June 5, 2009
Slow news day.
Happy Friday Goog,
And you know what Friday means…..? My BABY is home tonight. WHOOT. IT’s gonna be awesome. Even though it’s only been like 5 days, it seems like forever. I hate being apart from her and am now counting down the hours until her glorious return. J
So last night, I did nothing….Threw a football around with Smally and jumped on the trampoline with him, BUT other than that, nada. IT’s was relaxing
This month We have our annual canoe trip coming up. It’s on June 20th. We start in Sussex and come do to Apohaque. It’s like 6 to 8 hours full of paddling, drinking, snacks and laughs. When we land in Apohaque, we party the rest of the night away swimming in the pool, BBQ’ing and singing and maybe some poker and LOADS of good stuff. We have the option of camping or packing up at the end and heading home. Now we just have to get a canoe….
It’s the one event that I look forward to every year as I enjoy it SO much. Though this will be my 9th or 10th year, this is the 21st anniversary for it.
What else is up? I have some laundry to do tonight…. And…um….may do some choppin and raking? Um….. yeah. Now a whole hell of a lot.
Did you watch that new tattoo show Tattoo Hi-way? It’s pretty good. Thomas from H&H tattoo and that old A&E show Inked is on it. I watched the first two episodes and it was rather good. I’ll have to keep watching. Ya know it’s a slow news day when I'm talking about TV shows. I mean What the Holy?
OH yeah and Wipeout started again…it’s great as usual….. Ummm…yeah, I’ve got nuthin….
See ya Monday Goog!
And you know what Friday means…..? My BABY is home tonight. WHOOT. IT’s gonna be awesome. Even though it’s only been like 5 days, it seems like forever. I hate being apart from her and am now counting down the hours until her glorious return. J
So last night, I did nothing….Threw a football around with Smally and jumped on the trampoline with him, BUT other than that, nada. IT’s was relaxing
This month We have our annual canoe trip coming up. It’s on June 20th. We start in Sussex and come do to Apohaque. It’s like 6 to 8 hours full of paddling, drinking, snacks and laughs. When we land in Apohaque, we party the rest of the night away swimming in the pool, BBQ’ing and singing and maybe some poker and LOADS of good stuff. We have the option of camping or packing up at the end and heading home. Now we just have to get a canoe….
It’s the one event that I look forward to every year as I enjoy it SO much. Though this will be my 9th or 10th year, this is the 21st anniversary for it.
What else is up? I have some laundry to do tonight…. And…um….may do some choppin and raking? Um….. yeah. Now a whole hell of a lot.
Did you watch that new tattoo show Tattoo Hi-way? It’s pretty good. Thomas from H&H tattoo and that old A&E show Inked is on it. I watched the first two episodes and it was rather good. I’ll have to keep watching. Ya know it’s a slow news day when I'm talking about TV shows. I mean What the Holy?
OH yeah and Wipeout started again…it’s great as usual….. Ummm…yeah, I’ve got nuthin….
See ya Monday Goog!
Thursday, June 4, 2009
My raking brings all the boys to the yard...
It’s Thursday Goog,
The Mrs. is home tomorrow night from her big city livin. WOOO HOOOO
So…what shall it be today Goog and Mr. Blogger thingy? What insights of wisdom can I instill upon the 1 and or two readers that I have? Should I discuss the rise of the Canadian Dollar? Discuss my thoughts on how Fossil Teeth Hint at Animal Adaptation to Global Warming? Or maybe something along the lines of how Bruno ass-cracked and tea-bagged Eminem at the MYV movie award and how, though we did not know at the beginning, but Em was in on it the whole time?
Maybe something like I think I finally cracked with the whole cleaning up the woods around my place. So I went in last night, axe and hatchet in hand off to do my daily due of relaxing. But upon entering the hard to find path…I started looking and said to myself “Self…it’s really messy in here..I have to do something about this” So I walked in further and was really put out by how messy the woods actually are. So I did what any crackpot, shack wacky, wife missing red blooded, precocious young 31 year old boy would do… I went and got a rake .
I raked the shit out of that place, and soon, I had piles of bracken and limbed branches everywhere. And it soon occurred to me that there were two issues with this scenario. 1. I was gonna need another rake and 2. Where would I hide all f this mess? Calling upon my guile and crafty-ness, I pondered. “where could I put the bigger mess that I’ve made?”
Now I know what you’re thinking, “But Jerm, you’re in the woods, just hide it in the woods?”
And that really is the sissy way out. I had ideas of hooking up a trailer to the bike and hauling it out to have a monumental fire, OR maybe finding a landfill…you know, the sensible options, BUT in the end faithful reader(s), I took your advice and hid the woods, …in the woods.
It was surprisingly easy. You, my faithful reader(s) have great ideas.
So Goog and Mr. Bloggy Thingy what did we learn today?
Two rakes are better than one? Stick with a daunting task regardless of the size (insert a “that’s what she said” here)? No, what we learned today was that hiding stuff can be best achieved in the most obvious places.
Until tomorrow
jerm
The Mrs. is home tomorrow night from her big city livin. WOOO HOOOO
So…what shall it be today Goog and Mr. Blogger thingy? What insights of wisdom can I instill upon the 1 and or two readers that I have? Should I discuss the rise of the Canadian Dollar? Discuss my thoughts on how Fossil Teeth Hint at Animal Adaptation to Global Warming? Or maybe something along the lines of how Bruno ass-cracked and tea-bagged Eminem at the MYV movie award and how, though we did not know at the beginning, but Em was in on it the whole time?
Maybe something like I think I finally cracked with the whole cleaning up the woods around my place. So I went in last night, axe and hatchet in hand off to do my daily due of relaxing. But upon entering the hard to find path…I started looking and said to myself “Self…it’s really messy in here..I have to do something about this” So I walked in further and was really put out by how messy the woods actually are. So I did what any crackpot, shack wacky, wife missing red blooded, precocious young 31 year old boy would do… I went and got a rake .
I raked the shit out of that place, and soon, I had piles of bracken and limbed branches everywhere. And it soon occurred to me that there were two issues with this scenario. 1. I was gonna need another rake and 2. Where would I hide all f this mess? Calling upon my guile and crafty-ness, I pondered. “where could I put the bigger mess that I’ve made?”
Now I know what you’re thinking, “But Jerm, you’re in the woods, just hide it in the woods?”
And that really is the sissy way out. I had ideas of hooking up a trailer to the bike and hauling it out to have a monumental fire, OR maybe finding a landfill…you know, the sensible options, BUT in the end faithful reader(s), I took your advice and hid the woods, …in the woods.
It was surprisingly easy. You, my faithful reader(s) have great ideas.
So Goog and Mr. Bloggy Thingy what did we learn today?
Two rakes are better than one? Stick with a daunting task regardless of the size (insert a “that’s what she said” here)? No, what we learned today was that hiding stuff can be best achieved in the most obvious places.
Until tomorrow
jerm
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Mr. Black Thumb
Good day Goog,
Jeremy, Jeremy, bearded and hairy,
How does your garden grow?
I'm gonna plant some shit, just a little bit
And put lots of cow shit all in the rows.[
What do you think Goog? Poet Lauriat type of material?? I know what you’re thinking, “But Jerm, you have black thumbs, how the Holy will you be able to grow anything? Those poor defenseless plants won’t stand a chance you dumb bastard, HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO THE ECO SYSTEM???” Come on Goog, you know me better than that? Don’t you? I thought you and Mr. Blogger thingy knew my gardening agenda? Well I guess you don’t, thanks for paying attention, or are you too busy with all of your search engine functions to take notice of the little guy. YOU know what GOOG, You’re a CRUMB BUM!!!!!
There I said it….awwww, come on…..don’t cry….I’m sorry, I was just caught up in the heat of the moment………..Your maps are great? You do a really great job of mappin the shit out of the earth? Yeah? Smile….Hey….I GOT YOUR NOSE!!! I got it…oh. Sorry, that use to be funny. You use to laugh for hours over that Goog. But we’ll talk later. I have to update my one reader of my Mr. bloggy thingy…
SO, stoic reader(s) as you may have guessed due to my blatant rip off of a children’s rhyme, I will be planting tonight. I’m really looking forward to it for two reasons. 1. Do I have the long sought after “green Thumb”? And 2. I get to play in the dirt as an adult and not feel foolish.
My Buddy Muffin is coming by this evening for a beer or two as well and I may introduce him to the wonderful art of Chopping shit up. Being that he’s training to become an MMA fighter, ( a real one, not one like those guys who want to feel tough and say their training for it when in fact the only training they do is watch the Ultimate fighter and tell people about it) But it may inspire him to bump up his training and head into the local woods and or park wielding an axe…for exercise.
Today I have to give a presentation on Ergonomics and I think it’s good. It will consist of me talking and showing some videos and having some handouts. Here is where you Ooooo and Ahhhhhhh….well…if you saw the presentation that I’ve prepared…you would OOoooooooo and Ahhhhhhhhh.
AnyWho Goog and Mr. Blogger thingy… Until tomorrow.
Jeremy, Jeremy, bearded and hairy,
How does your garden grow?
I'm gonna plant some shit, just a little bit
And put lots of cow shit all in the rows.[
What do you think Goog? Poet Lauriat type of material?? I know what you’re thinking, “But Jerm, you have black thumbs, how the Holy will you be able to grow anything? Those poor defenseless plants won’t stand a chance you dumb bastard, HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO THE ECO SYSTEM???” Come on Goog, you know me better than that? Don’t you? I thought you and Mr. Blogger thingy knew my gardening agenda? Well I guess you don’t, thanks for paying attention, or are you too busy with all of your search engine functions to take notice of the little guy. YOU know what GOOG, You’re a CRUMB BUM!!!!!
There I said it….awwww, come on…..don’t cry….I’m sorry, I was just caught up in the heat of the moment………..Your maps are great? You do a really great job of mappin the shit out of the earth? Yeah? Smile….Hey….I GOT YOUR NOSE!!! I got it…oh. Sorry, that use to be funny. You use to laugh for hours over that Goog. But we’ll talk later. I have to update my one reader of my Mr. bloggy thingy…
SO, stoic reader(s) as you may have guessed due to my blatant rip off of a children’s rhyme, I will be planting tonight. I’m really looking forward to it for two reasons. 1. Do I have the long sought after “green Thumb”? And 2. I get to play in the dirt as an adult and not feel foolish.
My Buddy Muffin is coming by this evening for a beer or two as well and I may introduce him to the wonderful art of Chopping shit up. Being that he’s training to become an MMA fighter, ( a real one, not one like those guys who want to feel tough and say their training for it when in fact the only training they do is watch the Ultimate fighter and tell people about it) But it may inspire him to bump up his training and head into the local woods and or park wielding an axe…for exercise.
Today I have to give a presentation on Ergonomics and I think it’s good. It will consist of me talking and showing some videos and having some handouts. Here is where you Ooooo and Ahhhhhhh….well…if you saw the presentation that I’ve prepared…you would OOoooooooo and Ahhhhhhhhh.
AnyWho Goog and Mr. Blogger thingy… Until tomorrow.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Goog and me having adventures.
Good morning Google’y,
Can I call you Google’y? OR Gee to the Oh Oh Gee? Or Goog? I’ll go with Goog
. It makes me feel like we’ve know each other for years and years. Like we went to collage together and had adventures….Almost like we were the stars of the the movie Back to school But you would be Rodney Dangerfield (before he died) and I would be your embarrassed son…OR you can be the Zombie Rodney Dangerfield and I would be your Awesome super special Son who would send you out on missions. Like stealing the other University and or Collage’s Mascot, or playing pranks on the Dean
….Ooooo, that Dean…..
OR, OMG Goog, we could have gone on a cross Canada road trip to see a concert and we’d again get into adventures alng the way.
What kind of adventures you ask? Well we would probably get kicked out of a Historic Village tour, OR we would totally get Wild and crazy at a tea party with whomever.
Well…that’s our summer planned Goog, are you picking up what I'm putting down???
SO last night….I really didn’t do anything. I didn’t plant…Didn’t chop, I did work on a presentation for a workshop I have to do tomorrow, but other then that….. Nada
jerm
Can I call you Google’y? OR Gee to the Oh Oh Gee? Or Goog? I’ll go with Goog
. It makes me feel like we’ve know each other for years and years. Like we went to collage together and had adventures….Almost like we were the stars of the the movie Back to school But you would be Rodney Dangerfield (before he died) and I would be your embarrassed son…OR you can be the Zombie Rodney Dangerfield and I would be your Awesome super special Son who would send you out on missions. Like stealing the other University and or Collage’s Mascot, or playing pranks on the Dean
….Ooooo, that Dean…..
OR, OMG Goog, we could have gone on a cross Canada road trip to see a concert and we’d again get into adventures alng the way.
What kind of adventures you ask? Well we would probably get kicked out of a Historic Village tour, OR we would totally get Wild and crazy at a tea party with whomever.
Well…that’s our summer planned Goog, are you picking up what I'm putting down???
SO last night….I really didn’t do anything. I didn’t plant…Didn’t chop, I did work on a presentation for a workshop I have to do tomorrow, but other then that….. Nada
jerm
Monday, June 1, 2009
Im friggan sore.....
Good morning Blogger thingy,
So today is a sad day, my baby went to Toronto for the week and left me to fend for myself….I just don’t know how I'm going to cope with having my WHOLE bed to stretch out in. But really, I’ll probably just sleep on her Pillows on the floor.
So my weekend. WHAT the holy!!!! am I tired and sore, and not tired and sore in the good way, well maybe a little, BUT YIKES. Got down in the woods and did allot of chopping and re-allocating of trees and tree parts on Friday, relaxed a bit, may have had a beer…not bad, BUT then Saturday…..my OH my Saturday…..
I’ve come to realize just how much I underestimated incredibly HARD tilling a new garden is. From 8am until about 1:30pm of back breaking, labor intensive, shoulder ripping tilling. OMG!! (That’s right I totally omg’d right there) The pain really didn’t start on Saturday, I was just tired really. SO of course I sauntered down into the woods to do some more chopping with my NEW axe and hatchet.
Taking it upon myself to sharpen them both……..then after about 45 minutes realizing that I failed miserably at it and was using a dull axe and hatchet I conceded and, with a hung head, walked back out of the woods even more tired. BUT again, I wasn’t sore, just tired.
ENTER SUNDAY……HOLY SHIT was I sore when I woke up. I was sore as I walked to the bathroom, I was sore as I ate a bowl of Corn Pops, and I was sore after I got dressed and went for a smoke, BUT I was really sore when I helped my buddy Scott move into his new home for 5 hours…….I was sore
OH and did I mention that I was sore when I got home and after tilling the garden, we had to build the rows….with a hoe…..after moving for five hours……so yeah. I was/am/will be sore.
What a great weekend it was tho. How was yours?
jerm
So today is a sad day, my baby went to Toronto for the week and left me to fend for myself….I just don’t know how I'm going to cope with having my WHOLE bed to stretch out in. But really, I’ll probably just sleep on her Pillows on the floor.
So my weekend. WHAT the holy!!!! am I tired and sore, and not tired and sore in the good way, well maybe a little, BUT YIKES. Got down in the woods and did allot of chopping and re-allocating of trees and tree parts on Friday, relaxed a bit, may have had a beer…not bad, BUT then Saturday…..my OH my Saturday…..
I’ve come to realize just how much I underestimated incredibly HARD tilling a new garden is. From 8am until about 1:30pm of back breaking, labor intensive, shoulder ripping tilling. OMG!! (That’s right I totally omg’d right there) The pain really didn’t start on Saturday, I was just tired really. SO of course I sauntered down into the woods to do some more chopping with my NEW axe and hatchet.
Taking it upon myself to sharpen them both……..then after about 45 minutes realizing that I failed miserably at it and was using a dull axe and hatchet I conceded and, with a hung head, walked back out of the woods even more tired. BUT again, I wasn’t sore, just tired.
ENTER SUNDAY……HOLY SHIT was I sore when I woke up. I was sore as I walked to the bathroom, I was sore as I ate a bowl of Corn Pops, and I was sore after I got dressed and went for a smoke, BUT I was really sore when I helped my buddy Scott move into his new home for 5 hours…….I was sore
OH and did I mention that I was sore when I got home and after tilling the garden, we had to build the rows….with a hoe…..after moving for five hours……so yeah. I was/am/will be sore.
What a great weekend it was tho. How was yours?
jerm
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