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New Year's Resolution ~ I'm giving up SHOVELS

Melensdad

Melensdad

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I am just plain old SORE.

Never mind my rheumatoid arthritis, this is worse. This is shovel soreness. :sad: Spent the better part of the past day and a half digging OUT landscape stones, digging OUT plants, digging OUT fence posts, then digging IN landscape stones, digging IN plants and the hell with those fence posts because I've got a post hole digger for those things!

We are moving the pool from one side of the house to the other, got to clear out a spot for it. Being the cheap bastard that I am, I wanted to save all the perennials in the flower bed that will be impacted by the move. We have a flower bed that is about 35 feet across by roughly 20 feet wide, about 25% of that bed needs to be moved because a new retaining wall will be poured to border a couple sides of the pool. So a digging I will go :ermm:

Got everything moved that I have to have moved, there are a couple bushes that I want to save, but they will take a backhoe bucket larger than I have so I'm going to have to think about where I can borrow something bigger.

IN THE MEAN TIME I AM POPPING ALEVE like a 6 year old eats M&Ms. OUCH it really sucks to get old.
 
Wa, wa, wa .......... ain't getting no sympathy from me, I know the ails!
 
Can't you just dig out the sides of the bushes and then pop-out the root ball?

I moved some big trees that way. I just dug out the sides and then scooped up the whole thing with the FEL.
 
Melensdad said:
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:yum: sorry Bob, but that was funny.
You are MOVING a pool??!!
Gosh, I didn't know you had rheumatoid arthritis!
Watch it with popping the Aleve, I know it works well.. but... you don't want to tear your stomach up.
 
I love old farts that bitch, hoping on hope that someone will give a shit. I work like that all the time, and have no pity on anyone who's too cheap to pay the yung'uns who could use the money. When I hurt, I pay someone so I can heal to work another day. That's life, suck it up grandpaw.:yum::hammer::yum:
 
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