March

March 12, 2010

    I've spent the last week on a "mini" excavator... big enough, about the size of an SUV.  Valerie is under the impression that it's "fun" to operate one of these, especially if you're a man. Men and their tools.  Well there probably is something to that.  I do like tools.. they make it possible to get things done.  Anyway, for me, the first three or four hours in the excavator are pure frustration as you have to use both your right and left hands to operate the bucket and depending one whether you flick this way or that and the combination between the two hands will determine what happens.  If you're only doing this on average about once a week per year, getting up to speed in a state of calm can be a real challenge.  Especially with a full schedule of digging, plowing and brush clearing planned.