Hey Don,

The tales I could tell about you, but I better not or you're likely to tell them about me. Yikes. Mind you, he says we are going to go see a drilling and installation project and I'm already planning what kind of food to take for the guys. I decided a nice watermelon basket would be nice.

But here's a little clue. Don isn't much good in the lawn mowing dept. He had sort of a similar event to mine when I first encountered using mine. I thought it worked much like the vacuum, but found it was slightly different. I got it started, put it in gear and found I had to darn near run to keep up with it. So I got down the long row of lawn and couldn't figure out how to slow it down and I was sure I was going to mow all the way down the block. At the last minute I let go of the bar and it stopped. I looked at it and realized it was self propelled and I had it in 3rd gear. After that, I'm more careful. But when I do mow I wear my headset and listen to hot rock. My neighbor said he's never seen anyone so happy mowing the lawn. Don's problem was that he had it in neutral and had to push like crazy.

But Don is right, I am strange in some ways, but in the sense of humor dept, no one likes a blond joke better than me. So I dug deep into my compendium of blond jokes and thought this one would be enjoyed by all, especially me.

GREEN SIDE UP

A woman called a contractor to give her an estimate for some improvements in her home and he arrived one bright sunny morning. First she took him into her master bedroom and told him she wanted a large molding on the center of the wall and wall paper on the bottom. He took out his pencil and paper and wrote down her order. Then he leaned over and yelled out the window, "green side up." She thought that was a little odd, but they continued and she took him to the diningroom. "In here, I want wainscoting in white with a nice striped wallpaper on top", she said. Again he wrote down her instructions and turned to the right and yelled out the window, "green side up."

She was starting to get a little annoyed with him and had no idea why he was yelling out the window, but she continued on. They went to the family room and she showed him an area she wanted turned into an inside laundry room. She told him she wanted cabinets on top, room for the washer, dryer and a wash tub. He wrote down precisely what she wanted, leaned to the left and yelled out the window, "green side up."

That was it, she was totally annoyed with this man. She said "you are really quite strange and I am going to have to give some thought as to whether or not I want you working on my home." He said, "I'm sorry, what's the problem." She replied, "every time I show you what I want done, you yell out the window, "green side up." You have to admit that's a little strange." "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to give you the wrong impression. I have a team of blond women installing sod across the street and I had to keep reminding them to place the sod with the green side up."

All I know is that when we go for this installation thing, is something goes wrong, I won't be able to say, "its not my fault."

From The Lighter Side - Petra