Wife and daughter relish when Seaoat makes a mistake....more frequent now.........BUT

We went shopping at a big box hardware store called Menards to look for a 40 plus volt two battery lawn mower. Well the on line sale item was out of stock, so we went to another Wisconsin based big box store called farm and fleet, and they had no mowers which met our specs. So we decide to go out to eat. We stop at a Wendy's and get their 4 for $4 special.....a little chicken, good fries, and a small hamburger with a drink. We actually like Wendy fries and it was fun, but I am a frequent Casino visitor and all the casinos have self serve computerized drink dispensers which have like fifty selections. I have had to help old farts for three years since they came out, and there was one of these new drink machines in the Wendys.

Well I could not get off the lawn mower today, and she had to help out of my chair at Wendy's because I have gotten significantly weaker, so I asked her to get me a lemonade......well I watched her be befuddled at the machine smiling as she slowly figured it out. I could not get out of my chair because I am having some real issues with muscle weakness, so when she comes over I do not give her any crap(I rarely miss an opportunity), but when we were about to leave I asked with the special can we get a refill......she says yes and before going to refill my drink she says "YOU WILL BE CONFUSED" using the drink machine I burst out laughing and loudly say.....but but but.....I watched you take three minutes to get the original drinks......she gets piszed.....brings the cup back, and says ok smart guy you find the lemonade. She helps me out of the chair.....press one button, press a second button and pour the lemonade over the existing ice in about five seconds.....she is fuming....how do you know how to use that machine......I explained that Coke spent years developing an intuitive interface for folks with 100 IQ points, and that studies have found that folks below that slow up the line. She is fuming as I am laughing going to the passenger seat of the car......well we are laughing about the crap I gave her and I explained I help little old ladies at the casino get their drinks....when we are pulling into our driveway....."oh chit.....my purse" I had just gave her four hundred cash to buy the lawn mower so she had about eight hundred in her purse. I go into the house and call Wendys and they said the purse had been turned in.....it was a seventy something biker couple on a tricycle.

She calls and tells me she got her purse and offered to pay the couples dinner, but they refused saying we would expect others to do the same if we left our purse......so I have put this note on the front door waiting for her to return..........what will she do when I am gone......

We have this model and like it a lot, Seaoat:

https://www.amazon.com/GreenWorks-25302-20-Inch-Cordless-Batteries/dp/B00GX9WNP2/ref=sr_1_1?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1466983013&sr=1-1&keywords=Cordless+Electric+Lawn+Mower



We actually purchased the 20-inch model back in 2015, but it is no longer sold at Amazon.

Same manufacturer on a 36 volt two battery 20 inch machine which was normally 350 but was on sale for $199. A note of interest for people who are buying these new electric battery operated appliances. Have the clerk open the box and check the batteries. While the clerks were checking for this sale item, a couple had bought a mower and one of the two batteries was missing. They got another one for them, but when we were in Milton, we had items which had things removed from the box, and we got very suspicious of any box which did not have the original tape on the box. I reworked the back yard when I moved the Park model to Milton and put about twenty loads of black dirt in the back yard and seeded it. However, our John Deere commercial mower is huge and when you get near the edge of the yard the bank could give, so we are looking for an electric lawn mower without a cord which we can use on the bank, and on the islands. The cheap gas mowers do not work well with the alcohol content of gas, and we are looking for a gas supplier with NO alcohol added, which makes your chain saws and small lawnmowers run better. I will check out Amazon, but we are having a bunch of people over for the 4th and would like to get a neater cut than using a weed whacker.

That mower is actually cheaper at Menards.............this store makes Lowes and Home Depot seem like Sears.......Menards has everything the other box stores have but more farm oriented and way cheaper. I have seen them in KY, but no penetration further south......again started selling stuff to Wisconsin cheeseheads and those folks like things cheap and simple.

http://www.pure-gas.org/......we are looking for a gas supplier with NO alcohol added,

Thanks for that map. I am looking and there is not one in Northwest Illinois which is within 30 miles, but I can go to the quad cities and play poker and take three five gallon containers........now we will have less problems with a new gas mower, and I can play more poker.......just about the entire country has gas station which sell gas without alcohol, but the farm organizations are very powerful where I am, and a station which was just selling pure gas.....they would boycott the station......so the quad cities it is, and I will start looking at small gas mowers.......thanks.

That explains all the station in the quad cities and along the rivers.

Google how to remove alcohol from gasoline. Interesting

I've gone to great effort to use non-alch gas... they call it rv gas up here. But last year I found out that they often have alcohol despite the labeling. The's some epa loophole created two years ago. I still buy it for my speedboat... but that's it.

2seaoat wrote:We went shopping at a big box hardware store called Menards to look for a 40 plus volt two battery lawn mower.  Well the on line sale item was out of stock, so we went to another Wisconsin based big box store called farm and fleet, and they had no mowers which met our specs.   So we decide to go out to eat.  We stop at a Wendy's and get their 4 for $4 special.....a little chicken, good fries, and a small hamburger with a drink.  We actually like Wendy fries and it was fun, but I am a frequent Casino visitor and all the casinos have self serve computerized drink dispensers which have like fifty selections.  I have had to help old farts for three years since they came out, and there was one of these new drink machines in the Wendys.

Well I could not get off the lawn mower today, and she had to help out of my chair at Wendy's because I have gotten significantly weaker, so I asked her to get me a lemonade......well I watched her be befuddled at the machine smiling as she slowly figured it out.   I could not get out of my chair because I am having some real issues with muscle weakness, so when she comes over I do not give her any crap(I rarely miss an opportunity), but when we were about to leave I asked with the special can we get a refill......she says yes and before going to refill my drink she says "YOU WILL BE CONFUSED" using the drink machine I burst out laughing and loudly say.....but but but.....I watched you take three minutes to get the original drinks......she gets piszed.....brings the cup back, and says ok smart guy you find the lemonade.  She helps me out of the chair.....press one button, press a second button and pour the lemonade over the existing ice in about five seconds.....she is fuming....how do you know how to use that machine......I explained that Coke spent years developing an intuitive interface for folks with 100 IQ  points, and that studies have found that folks below that slow up the line.  She is fuming as I am laughing going to the passenger seat of the car......well we are laughing about the crap I gave her and I explained I help little old ladies at the casino get their drinks....when we are pulling into our driveway....."oh chit.....my purse"   I had just gave her four hundred cash to buy the lawn mower so she had about eight hundred in her purse.   I go into the house and call Wendys and they said the purse had been turned in.....it was a seventy something biker couple on a tricycle.

She calls and tells me she got her purse and offered to pay the couples dinner, but they refused saying we would expect others to do the same if we left our purse......so I have put this note on the front door waiting for her to return..........what will she do when I am gone......

Oy vey, Oatie! A slap upside the head for you. BTW, why do you carry cash like that? I don't carry more than $20 just because of that reason. I have left my purse more time than I can count.

I had won at poker last Monday and had over a $1,000 cash.........this year I am still up in my poker playing but lost significantly the last two years as my playing has declined as this cancer has effected both my stamina, and most World Series of Poker is now dominated by young healthy people. She has a great sense of humor as we laughed all day yesterday.

My daughter and wife were giving me crap about my memory(legitimate criticism) before my daughter was leaving to visit my mother a year ago in Arizona. So my wife drives them to the airport, and my daughter with the granddaughters get out at Ohare airport, and without double checking the car for any toys, luggage or purse, my wife just takes off for home (2 hours west of Chicago. Well my daughter left her tickets, purse, and cell phone in obvious sight in the back seat. My daughter had to go up to total strangers asking for their phone, but she forgot her mother's phone number because her smart phone does that smart thing for her. Well, she did remember her husband's number, calls at 5am and wakes him up, and he calls my wife and she races back to the airport and the daughter barely makes it to the gate.

Seaoat now regularly reminds them of their dynamic duo status.......like here my friends and family like to try to gang up on me to make it fair......its never fair, but they love trying.

Was your daughter ever checked for Epstein Barr virus as a cause of her lupus?

She has been tested repeatedly and only Lupus which has been nicely controlled with her medications.....has surfaced....the weight gain after the second child is shocking, but Lupus just wears people out. We think my wife's mother may have suffered from the same, but always treated as severe rheumatoid.