First World Problems

The past three summers have seen me falling behind on yard work. And oh boy do I have projects planned. Both on paper and in my mind.

My current project is to clean up stepping stones. I'm also planning on installing several new 4"x 4" x 8' for bird feeder stations. Although I have a fair number of lawn and garden tools I do not own a post hole digger or a lawn edger attachment.

So I called the local company whose name is, "Owner's Name Rentals, Sales & Service". I asked if I could rent a lawn edger and power auger. Well unless I had a tractor with a PTO they didn't have an auger for me. What about an old fashioned post hole digger? That wasn't there either. So I decided the bird feeders can wait.

The sidewalk edger? It is an item that may or may not be on their Wish List. I then asked where I might find such equipment. I was advised of a national chain hardware store approximately 45 minutes away that has an outstanding rental outlet.

Hmmm 90 minutes of drive time? I don't think so. So with a couple of shovels, some elbow grease and sweat, I was able to save a few bucks, keep the earth green and clean up those dang stepping stones.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 02:00 PM

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Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2025 02:01 PM (+qU29)

2 ST.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2025 02:02 PM (je3ji)

3 CBD taking the day off or has he run out of FWPs?

Posted by: Tuna at June 22, 2025 02:03 PM (lJ0H4)

4 A little C4 would solve both problems. Fun too.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 22, 2025 02:03 PM (2UnvF)

5 Got behind on yard work here, finally used extra daylight yesterday to weed trim and didn't get it all done.
Thunderstorm coming it sounds like

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2025 02:04 PM (+qU29)

6 Nth

Posted by: CapeFear at June 22, 2025 02:04 PM (+JzKz)

7 First the NoVa MoMee just *happens* to be scheduled hours before the US bombs Iran, now CBD is incognito.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 22, 2025 02:04 PM (ULPxl)

8 Time to sell.

Posted by: Always the default answer at June 22, 2025 02:05 PM (lIgBp)

9 I've got acres to mow, but it's over 90F and the humidity is horrible. No end in sight.

Tomorrow's another day....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2025 02:05 PM (Q4IgG)

10 Here's a FWP that just might dovetail nicely into the Food Thread:

I bought a box of Shake and Bake and wouldn't you know, it had no plastic bags - you know, to shake with. So I had to get some large sandwich bags separately to shake the coating onto the pork chops.

WTF is this?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2025 02:06 PM (vm8sq)

11 Not your steppin' stone. Not your steppin' stone.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 22, 2025 02:06 PM (WrtZ/)

12 By posthole digger, do you mean a clamshell digger? Those are available at all hardware stores, and aren't expensive.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2025 02:07 PM (Riz8t)

13 I used to be a big do it yourselfer. Now that I'm well past 29, my toolbox contains a cell phone and a credit card.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 22, 2025 02:08 PM (2UnvF)

14 When I built my house, I had two criteria for renting or owning equipment.
First, could I hire it done cheaper than I could buy or rent the tool(s)?
Second, could I even do it?
Whether I ever used the tool again never entered into it.
Anybody want to buy a nice electric tin snip?
How bouts a joist hanger nail gun?

Posted by: MkY at June 22, 2025 02:08 PM (cPGH3)

15 By posthole digger, do you mean a clamshell digger? Those are available at all hardware stores, and aren't expensive.

Plus, you can chase your wife around and pretend to snap at her with it. It's loads of fun.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2025 02:08 PM (Riz8t)

16 Hurry up with the feeders. We're hungry.

Posted by: The Squirrels at June 22, 2025 02:08 PM (lIgBp)

17 12 By posthole digger, do you mean a clamshell digger? Those are available at all hardware stores, and aren't expensive.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2025 02:07 PM (Riz8t)

They're cheap because nobody wants to use them.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 22, 2025 02:09 PM (W/lyH)

18 12 By posthole digger, do you mean a clamshell digger? Those are available at all hardware stores, and aren't expensive.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2025 02:07 PM (Riz8t)

I will have to think about investing in a clamshell (post hole digger)
They cost $50 or more.
I just wanted to dig a few holes.......

Hint, hint, Casa Misanthrope could always use a Bobcat

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2025 02:10 PM (QXQ4l)

19 Hurry up with the feeders. We're hungry.
Posted by: The Squirrels at June 22, 2025 02:08 PM (lIgBp)

And a professor shall lead them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 22, 2025 02:10 PM (WrtZ/)

20 Conspiracy. It's all a conspiracy!

Posted by: Case at June 22, 2025 02:11 PM (ilX37)

21 I bought a box of Shake and Bake and wouldn't you know, it had no plastic bags - you know, to shake with. So I had to get some large sandwich bags separately to shake the coating onto the pork chops.
WTF is this?
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 22, 2025 02:06 PM (vm8sq)

Same here a few weeks ago. Got the Shake and Bake pork and no plastic bags, only the crumbly stuff. Had to use a large bowl instead. Cheap bastards.

Posted by: Disappointed at June 22, 2025 02:11 PM (R/m4+)

22 Some smart ass on the interwebs.

Iran has become unburdened by what has been.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Master of the Mundane at June 22, 2025 02:11 PM (L/fGl)

23 https://tinyurl.com/2v7cjyfp

Get gloves. I get blisters when I use straight-handled anything.
YMMV

Posted by: MkY at June 22, 2025 02:12 PM (cPGH3)

24 The backyard, which may officially be mine by the end of the month, has a nice forestlike quality.

I've made peace with that.

Posted by: Stateless.. 40% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 22, 2025 02:12 PM (jvJvP)

25 14 When I built my house, I had two criteria for renting or owning equipment.
First, could I hire it done cheaper than I could buy or rent the tool(s)?
Second, could I even do it?
Whether I ever used the tool again never entered into it.
Anybody want to buy a nice electric tin snip?
How bouts a joist hanger nail gun?
Posted by: MkY at June 22, 2025 02:08 PM (cPGH3)

That is good criteria when you first move into a new house, especially a new build.

I had rented an earth auger to put in 4x4 posts for the doggey yard.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2025 02:12 PM (QXQ4l)

26 Big FWP: Last night the roofs of several of my properties caved in, unexpectedly. Asking for recommendations for proven experts at cavern roof debris removal and new roof construction. Must be willing to travel and bring all necessary manpower, materials, and equipment. Will pay in barrels of oil or virgins.

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Hossein H. Hossein at June 22, 2025 02:13 PM (aBgBM)

27 Save your bread bags for Shake and Bake night.

Posted by: Shrinkflation at June 22, 2025 02:13 PM (lIgBp)

28 3 CBD taking the day off or has he run out of FWPs?
Posted by: Tuna at June 22, 2025 02:03 PM (lJ0H4)

He has taken the day off.

I was and still am happy to have been able to fill in today.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2025 02:13 PM (QXQ4l)

29 Plus, you can chase your wife around and pretend to snap at her with it. It's loads of fun.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2025 02:08 PM

Plus to that, you can scroll right past the Viagra ad near the top for a month or so.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 22, 2025 02:14 PM (0sNs1)

30
4 A little C4 would solve both problems. Fun too.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 22, 2025 02:03 PM (2UnvF)

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For the bird feeder footing, just drive a one-inch hole a couple of feet straight down, and run a short length of Primacord down the hole. You can put a trash bag of water on top before detonation.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 22, 2025 02:14 PM (QwK6F)

31 I get blisters when I use straight-handled anything.
YMMV
Posted by: MkY at June 22, 2025 02:12 PM

Me, too.

Posted by: Wm. J. "Bubba" Clinton at June 22, 2025 02:16 PM (0sNs1)

32 For the bird feeder footing, just drive a one-inch hole a couple of feet straight down, and run a short length of Primacord down the hole. You can put a trash bag of water on top before detonation.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

I love useful tips...

Posted by: MkY at June 22, 2025 02:16 PM (cPGH3)

33 Over the course of 12 years, I've built and extended a flagstone patio and dry stack fieldstone retaining wall with nothing but a spade and trenching shovel. It's now about 7 or 800 square feet. Probably could have done it in a quarter of the time with proper rented tools.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 22, 2025 02:16 PM (ITkJX)

34 By posthole digger, do you mean a clamshell digger? Those are available at all hardware stores, and aren't expensive.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2025 02:07 PM (Riz8t)

They're cheap because nobody wants to use them.

My first house was in a neighborhood called Stoneybrook. It was well named. The "soil" was 90% stones. I dug a couple of dozen holes in it with a clamshell digger. I was quite buff when I finished.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2025 02:16 PM (Riz8t)

35 I have a post hole digger attachment for my 1025r. Doesn't get much use, but when needed - it makes life easier.

Posted by: scampydog at June 22, 2025 02:17 PM (41CYW)

36 Turns out the tool that helps the most is a tile spade.

https://tinyurl.com/3yy9m4mn

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2025 02:17 PM (lIgBp)

37 You can dig a hole with a post-hole digger?!! Lucky you!

Right after we moved here we told the guy at Home Depot's rental center that we wanted an auger. He asked what for and we told him we were digging holes to plant several vitex (chaste tree) plants. He asked where we lived and when we told him he said, "Auger won't do it. You're going to need a jackhammer."

He was neither kidding nor exaggerating. It's the only way you can dig any deeper than 2 or 3 inches in our yard.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 22, 2025 02:17 PM (FEVMW)

38 One useful thing I've learned is that hired brawn is cheaper than chiros or ER visits.
"A man's gotta know his limitations"

Posted by: MkY at June 22, 2025 02:18 PM (cPGH3)

39 I love a good tool time!

Posted by: Tim Taylor at June 22, 2025 02:19 PM (0sNs1)

40 Speaking of bags, my FWP:
There is now only one place that still offers those thin plastic bags we used to find (for free) at the store. They are perfect for dumping my vacuum debris into. The alternative is using the ones they charge 9 cents for and I for damn sure don't want to pay for those damn bags.
Happily the one place is the Class VI store on Ft Lewis. (Military liquor store) Thus, supplies are sufficient the next month or so.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 22, 2025 02:20 PM (W/lyH)

41 36 Yep. A tile spade and a pickmattock and then you're ready to go. Handy things to have around.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 22, 2025 02:20 PM (gm9Sb)

42 Honey bees have decided part of my house shall be their home but to get close enough to spay them it's necessary to chainsaw several limbs from a couple of trees that are in brush where a snake lives. So I'll have to cut the brush before I get to the trees. And it's so darn hot. Think I'll have a glass of iced tea and work on the plan.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 22, 2025 02:21 PM (DNJiU)

43 Honey bees have decided part of my house shall be their home but to get close enough to spay them it's necessary to chainsaw several limbs from a couple of trees that are in brush where a snake lives. So I'll have to cut the brush before I get to the trees. And it's so darn hot. Think I'll have a glass of iced tea and work on the plan.
Posted by: braenyard-

Check around. Lots of beekeepers will come get that hive.

Posted by: MkY at June 22, 2025 02:23 PM (cPGH3)

44 A flat shovel makes an excellent edger

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2025 02:23 PM (IG2sK)

45 Tim, this would be a good time to mention the Binford Postalator 6000.
Remember: if it doesn't say Binford on it, somebody else makes it.

Posted by: Al Borland at June 22, 2025 02:23 PM (lIgBp)

46 A (sharpened) flat shovel makes an excellent edger
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Suggested edit.

Posted by: MkY at June 22, 2025 02:24 PM (cPGH3)

47 Always spay and neuter your honeybees.

Posted by: SPCA at June 22, 2025 02:24 PM (lIgBp)

48
42 Honey bees have decided part of my house shall be their home but to get close enough to spay them it's necessary to chainsaw several limbs from a couple of trees that are in brush where a snake lives. So I'll have to cut the brush before I get to the trees. And it's so darn hot. Think I'll have a glass of iced tea and work on the plan.
Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 22, 2025 02:21 PM

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You could try driving them out with a smokey fire.

Posted by: Guy Who Got His Name In The Paper at June 22, 2025 02:25 PM (cQWrP)

49 Beekeeper, excellent idea.

Make that shovel a sharp shooter.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 22, 2025 02:25 PM (DNJiU)

50 @46; correct

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 22, 2025 02:26 PM (IG2sK)

51 We are starting to experience wasps taking up residence. In years past we had the red ones that don't seem to bother humans. This year it seems to be the black ones that do (no racist stuff intended). Must stop at True Value tomorrow for the needed spray.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 22, 2025 02:26 PM (gm9Sb)

52 Always spay and neuter your honeybees.
Posted by: SPCA

Another useful tip!

Posted by: MkY at June 22, 2025 02:26 PM (cPGH3)

53 I wonder if a power washer could work well as a post hole digger. I've seen videos where people use it to dig deep well holes.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 22, 2025 02:26 PM (cduTK)

54 I had an old "brick" path out in the back yard that was a broken ankle breaker, so I pulled it up and relaid it with salvaged concrete paver tiles. I found out later, when I made a smaller path that the best thing to do is make sure there is a 1/4 or 1/2" space between all the pavers tp sweep in crushed limestone or crushed limestone mixed with sand as a sort of crappy mortar. It keeps the weeds and grass down.

I am going to have to dig up the first walkway and reset it since the grass is coming up from the tight joints, and it is really hard to pull.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 22, 2025 02:27 PM (D7oie)

55 it's necessary to chainsaw several limbs from a couple of trees that are in brush where a snake lives. So I'll have to cut the brush before I get to the trees.
Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 22, 2025 02:21 PM

No step on snek.

Posted by: A. Reminder at June 22, 2025 02:27 PM (0sNs1)

56 53 - Seems like you'd need some nuclear level psi for that to work.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 22, 2025 02:28 PM (ITkJX)

57 This is about us, isn't it?

https://youtu.be/nDcpexDjvAM

Posted by: Ginger, Mary Ann & Mrs. Howell at June 22, 2025 02:29 PM (lIgBp)

58 If you can knock down the wasp nest early, there's a good chance they will move on.

Wasps are actually good for a number of things but they are best when they do their thing far away from you.

Posted by: pawn, the original at June 22, 2025 02:29 PM (W23tn)

59 My first house was in a neighborhood called Stoneybrook. It was well named. The "soil" was 90% stones. I dug a couple of dozen holes in it with a clamshell digger. I was quite buff when I finished.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 22, 2025 02:16 PM (Riz8t)

Does that describe the texture, color or state of undress?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 22, 2025 02:29 PM (D7oie)

60 Whenever I consider a DIY project at home, I always ask myself this question: "Will I fuck it up and make things worse?" The usual answer is yes. That's when I hire someone to do it. Unfortunately I learn by doing, not by watching some Youtube video, and learning by doing can be very very pricey for DIY home projects. So I usually don't bother unless it's a nobrainer.

Posted by: Farquad at June 22, 2025 02:29 PM (YkGND)

61 Two times I've rented an auger with a motor mounted on top. Shopping cart handles on each side, Two man operation. Both times it just sits on top and turns.
It will finally do the job but it's not what you expect when you rent it.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 22, 2025 02:30 PM (DNJiU)

62 53 When I lived in Erie, a friend and I put up a fence using his ice auger (nut ice fisherman). Thing would go down a little over three feet, nice and light. Kept a hose handy to keep the auger clean. This was a small two cycle, but I imagine you could use a hand powered with patience and soft ground.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 22, 2025 02:30 PM (gm9Sb)

63 I put in 20 4"x4" postholes using only a hand post-hole digger over the course of the winter. Clay/sand is all we got here. Not a rock for over a hundred miles that wasn't trucked, barged, or railed in. Used nearly 40 bags of Quikrete, too all mixed in a wheelbarrow. Going slow gets it done.

Posted by: oldnorthstate at June 22, 2025 02:31 PM (G5+As)

64 Augur? I just met her?

Posted by: Rimshot at June 22, 2025 02:31 PM (lIgBp)

65 Always spay and neuter your honeybees.
Posted by: SPCA

Obviously an ad from Big Veterinarian.

Save money; you only have to fix the queen bee.

Posted by: mikeski at June 22, 2025 02:31 PM (DgGvY)

66 Backhoe. Every redblooded patriot with at least 2 acres should have have a backhoe

Posted by: Eromero at June 22, 2025 02:32 PM (jgmnb)

67
In years past we had the red ones that don't seem to bother humans. This year it seems to be the black ones that do (no racist stuff intended).

Black and yellow will sting a fellow.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 22, 2025 02:33 PM (63Dwl)

68 A tile spade is actually a vey useful tool to have around.

Posted by: pawn, the original at June 22, 2025 02:33 PM (W23tn)

69 Augur? I just met her?
Posted by: Rimshot

Could have socked it "Donald Duck" for the extra biology joke.

Posted by: mikeski at June 22, 2025 02:33 PM (DgGvY)

70 *Two man operation. Both times it just sits on top and turns.*

Used to date her.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at June 22, 2025 02:35 PM (lIgBp)

71 hmmm... don't you just use your weed eater for lawn edging? Maybe you don't have one of those.

Anyway, a small hack for the post hole is shovel some, fill with water, let it drain a little, shovel some more.

Also its garage sale season, cheap tools.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2025 02:35 PM (rvwwT)

72 If you can knock down the wasp nest early, there's a good chance they will move on.

Wasps are actually good for a number of things but they are best when they do their thing far away from you.
Posted by: pawn, the original

Wasps are asshoe, but ordinary asshoe.

Hornets are nuclear asshoe, and should be dealt with using Fordow-like methods.

$*#($%$ yellowjackets.....

Posted by: mikeski at June 22, 2025 02:35 PM (DgGvY)

73 The Chinese gold miners in CA, "hydraulicked" away entire hillsides and creekbanks, driving the material into big sluice boxes to extract gold. The power of water is awesome. Sometimes better to flood and level the property and start over. There was no EPA at the time.

Posted by: Mine Kampf at June 22, 2025 02:35 PM (G5+As)

74 My landscaping goals are pretty well smashed at the moment. I want to install a retaining wall in my mid-back yard. My house is situated on a tall ledge outcropping which results in a slowly eroding grade that was put in during the home's construction in 1983. I'd like to arrest that erosion with a retaining wall but I'm extremely concerned about what the price will be. I'm guessing at least $25k for what I want.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 22, 2025 02:36 PM (WYStd)

75 A manual post hole digger costs about $30 and is some of the best exercise one can get.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 22, 2025 02:37 PM (Vfq+S)

76 66 Heh. A friend's father, guy about my age, gentleman farmer, has a little Kubota backhoe/front loader mostly for amusement. His favorite Seinfeld episode is the one with the psychos digging holes in Central Park. He was laughing one time, saying since he got it he needs dirt delivered.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 22, 2025 02:37 PM (gm9Sb)

77 63 I put in 20 4"x4" postholes using only a hand post-hole digger over the course of the winter. Clay/sand is all we got here. Not a rock for over a hundred miles that wasn't trucked, barged, or railed in. Used nearly 40 bags of Quikrete, too all mixed in a wheelbarrow. Going slow gets it done.
Posted by: oldnorthstate at June 22, 2025 02:31 PM (G5+As)
I built a 3600 sq ft deck and dug holes for half and socket blocks for half. Mrs. E dug (almost) the last hole. She said ‘why am I digging this hole? I have an Accountant Degree.’. I said ‘because I have the tape measure.’.

Posted by: Eromero at June 22, 2025 02:38 PM (jgmnb)

78 If you are going to dig a hole, do try augury, the birds can often tell you the most auspicious place to site it.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 22, 2025 02:38 PM (D7oie)

79 The car started making funny noises. Just what I needed. Oh, well....

Posted by: Castle Guy at June 22, 2025 02:39 PM (Lhaco)

80 Funny, ha ha, or...?

Posted by: Your mechanic at June 22, 2025 02:40 PM (lIgBp)

81

Have the Democrat scum & Fake News politicized the weather, yet?

We going to reach temperatures not seen since...

last year!!

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 22, 2025 02:42 PM (PFL30)

82 I have gutter drains that exit out from a retaining wall and then floods my front sidewalk. The water is supposed to drain onto the side of the walk and then flow down the side to the driveway. But a year ago I had an irrigation line blowout and the aftermath clogged up, dammed up the little dirt path on the side that the water was supposed to take. So, my summer project is to put in a kind of french drain situation to get the water flowing again. My progress on that thus far has been disappointing.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 22, 2025 02:43 PM (cduTK)

83 More belicose threats from Iran.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2025 02:43 PM (je3ji)

84
Backhoe. Every redblooded patriot with at least 2 acres should have have a backhoe
Posted by: Eromero

I concur, ol' chum.
A Cat 349 should be adequate.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 22, 2025 02:43 PM (PFL30)

85 High temperatures in the US today are due to the incendiary actions taken in Iran yesterday.
Shame on you!

Posted by: Greta The Great at June 22, 2025 02:44 PM (lIgBp)

86 Had nap but no rain showed up with the thunder

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2025 02:44 PM (+qU29)

87
A manual post hole digger costs about $30 and is some of the best exercise one can get.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

a.k.a. the knucklebreaker

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 22, 2025 02:44 PM (PFL30)

88 Filling sandbags with nothing but entrenching tools. And fifty years later your back is still bitching about it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 22, 2025 02:45 PM (gm9Sb)

89 They have a powered one that is much faster.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2025 02:45 PM (je3ji)

90 *They have a powered one that is much faster.*

I have several.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 22, 2025 02:47 PM (lIgBp)

91 N.East coast & WA to the rockies is supposed to be hot. S.East will be cooler. Atlantic seaboard may receive a hurricane. Sea surface temps in the Gulf of America are too cool to feed. cyclone.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 22, 2025 02:48 PM (DNJiU)

92 I come to this thread for the complaining. If I wanted stories of grit, determination and resourcefulness in the face of a 90-minute commute, I would read Instapundit.

"I solved my problem with a shovel." What the hell is that? Where's the nasal whining, the sense of entitlement, the spite?

Screw it, there's nothing I can do. Reading Instapundit is out of the question.

Posted by: Bombadil at June 22, 2025 02:49 PM (MX0bI)

93 Thunder rumbling is so constant at my joint right now it's sounds like a white noise machine.

No accompanying rain just yet.

Posted by: polynikes at June 22, 2025 02:50 PM (VofaG)

94 Hey, big boy...

Posted by: Matt Drudge at June 22, 2025 02:51 PM (lIgBp)

95 Hot Air?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2025 02:51 PM (je3ji)

96 Remember the manual edger? Like a wheeled pizza slicer with spike blades.

Posted by: polynikes at June 22, 2025 02:51 PM (VofaG)

97 Always spay and neuter your honeybees.
Posted by: SPCA

Get the 304s spayed.

Posted by: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Everyone at June 22, 2025 02:51 PM (TbWk/)

98 A (sharpened) flat shovel makes an excellent edger
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Suggested edit.
Posted by: MkY at June 22, 2025 02:24 PM (cPGH3)

Make sure it's light weight enough for the Mrs.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 22, 2025 02:52 PM (W/lyH)

99 83 More belicose threats from Iran.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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They remind me of a child that needs a spanking.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 22, 2025 02:52 PM (DNJiU)

100 My first world problem today is Friday I swapped vehicles with the wife so I could get a service done on her car and now I need a new clutch in my pick up.

Posted by: Reforger at June 22, 2025 02:52 PM (LgDgc)

101 Thunder only happens when it's raining...

Posted by: Fleetwood Mac at June 22, 2025 02:52 PM (lIgBp)

102 Square spade.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2025 02:52 PM (je3ji)

103 Everyone is freaking out because the temperature is going up in, checks calendar, the summer. And they're all using "heat index" now.

"Heat index" is transexual-temperature, i.e. pretend temperature.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 22, 2025 02:52 PM (cduTK)

104 clam shell diggers suckm get an Adjustable Dirt Auger, you'll thank me later.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 22, 2025 02:53 PM (Xaaou)

105 Billy Mays here! Tired of digging and digging just to put in a mailbox or fence post? How about trying the new MiniMOP? Small enough to fit in your hand, loud enough to wake up the neighborhood. Penetrates to five feet, and then the fun begins. Get yours now, but wait. Buy two and get free shipping!

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 22, 2025 02:53 PM (gm9Sb)

106 83 More belicose threats from Iran.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2025 02:43 PM (je3ji)

Bill Belicose! What a coach!

Posted by: Belicose Fan at June 22, 2025 02:56 PM (PiwSw)

107 Even when this doofus gets it right, he gets it wrong.

Read the comments, too:

https://tinyurl.com/mphrvk2b

Has this putz ever been mentioned over the years here at AOS? Curious.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2025 02:57 PM (NC42u)

108 The Chinese gold miners in CA, "hydraulicked" away entire hillsides and creekbanks, driving the material into big sluice boxes to extract gold. The power of water is awesome. Sometimes better to flood and level the property and start over. There was no EPA at the time.
Posted by: Mine Kampf

No epa but the judges house flooded due to the silt an he shut down Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 22, 2025 02:57 PM (Xaaou)

109 101 Thunder only happens when it's raining...
Posted by: Fleetwood Mac at June 22, 2025 02:52 PM (lIgBp)

Player only love you when they're playing...

Posted by: Who wrote it, Stevie or Lindsey? at June 22, 2025 02:57 PM (PiwSw)

110 I have a pickaxe you can borrow if you promise not to bring it back.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 22, 2025 02:58 PM (7NkZG)

111 I saw the last few minutes of "X-Men: Last Stand" yesterday.

I didn't know Ellen Page was Kitty Pryde. She was so damn cute. Very pretty.

FWP .... Look what they did to her.

Posted by: Stateless.. 40% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 22, 2025 02:58 PM (jvJvP)

112 More belicose threats from Iran.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2025 02:43 PM (je3ji)
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Well, they were bellicose to developing a nuclear weapon but now not so much.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2025 02:59 PM (NC42u)

113 FWP .... Look what ~~they~~ she did to ~~her~~ herself.
Posted by: Stateless.. 40% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 22, 2025 02:58 PM (jvJvP)

--

Fixed.

Posted by: Who wrote it, Stevie or Lindsey? at June 22, 2025 02:59 PM (PiwSw)

114 Look what they did to her.

It is a sin that cannot be forgiven.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 22, 2025 03:00 PM (7xrfc)

115 First world problem + a helpful hint from Kurt Schlicter today: “If you’re curious to learn more about bunker busters, when you Google the weapon system for goodness sake do not forget to include the word “ordnance” when searching for “massive ordnance penetrator.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2025 03:00 PM (EVFZ5)

116 saw the last few minutes of "X-Men: Last Stand" yesterday.

I didn't know Ellen Page was Kitty Pryde. She was so damn cute. Very pretty.

FWP .... Look what they did to her.
Posted by: Stateless.. 40% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 22, 2025 02:58 PM (jvJvP)

Whip It was her best movie.

Posted by: polynikes at June 22, 2025 03:01 PM (VofaG)

117 Salutes from Jerusalem:

https://tinyurl.com/2vpdwbrx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2025 03:03 PM (NC42u)

118 Got less than three hours before have to leave for work

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2025 03:04 PM (+qU29)

119 Do edgers still have the whirling thick metal piece of death?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 22, 2025 03:05 PM (zZu0s)

120 The sidewalk edger?

Try Ryobi one tool battery one from home depot. I have their model and it works fine for me and I have about eleventygazzillion feet of driveway to edge.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 22, 2025 03:05 PM (e5NfL)

121 Salutes from Jerusalem:

https://tinyurl.com/2vpdwbrx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2025 03:03 PM (NC42u)
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And from Tel Aviv:

https://tinyurl.com/82ne8xp8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2025 03:06 PM (NC42u)

122 Everyone is freaking out because the temperature is going up in, checks calendar, the summer. And they're all using "heat index" now.

"Heat index" is transexual-temperature, i.e. pretend temperature.

Posted by: banana Dream

I heard that the meteorologist that came up with the heat index died recently. He was 86, but felt like he was 92.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 22, 2025 03:06 PM (Vfq+S)

123 Neither one costs that much money, Mr Cheapskate

Posted by: jsg at June 22, 2025 03:07 PM (iGK7y)

124 Just planning to do something produces 80% of the endorphins you get from actually doing it. I guess that is one of the reasons I can plan something to death without getting it done.

Posted by: toby928 at June 22, 2025 03:07 PM (jc0TO)

125 I bought an auger type digger when the pounding on my shoulder was too much. Works pretty well.

Ask your neighbor if you can borrow his post hole digger ... one neighbor surely has one.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 22, 2025 03:07 PM (vbXSk)

126 Salutes from Jerusalem:

https://tinyurl.com/2vpdwbrx
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Nice touch!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 22, 2025 03:09 PM (Xaaou)

127 107 "Although I believe electing Kamala Harris would have been better for our democracy, society, and economy, as well as for helping the most vulnerable people in the United States and around the world"

Good grief. That man is mainlining copium by the gallon on that statement.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 22, 2025 03:11 PM (7xrfc)

128 Air raid over Tabriz.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2025 03:13 PM (je3ji)

129 Hmmm 90 minutes of drive time? I don't think so.

180 if you want to return it.

Posted by: t-bird at June 22, 2025 03:14 PM (MkLs2)

130 Here's a post problem I bet none of you have had.

The guy who tunes my piano says he's never been able to keep the post of his mailbox straight. He'll shim it and it will last for a few weeks or a couple of months but then lean again. So even though he has no handyman skills (bcse musician) he decided to rent a posthole digger and dig an official hole.

He discovered the post wouldn't stand up straight because it was resting on the front seat of a car. A completely buried car he knew nothing about.

!!!

My daughter says there's probably a body in the trunk.

Posted by: Wenda at June 22, 2025 03:14 PM (Uz2Kf)

131 And from Tel Aviv:

https://tinyurl.com/82ne8xp8

So you can get a 100 foot long banner made and delivered in 24 hours? Or they had those on hand just in case they might come in handy?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 22, 2025 03:18 PM (wWEE9)

132 "He discovered the post wouldn't stand up straight because it was resting on the front seat of a car. A completely buried car he knew nothing about."

Dolan's Cadillac ?

Posted by: jsg at June 22, 2025 03:18 PM (iGK7y)

133 Mr. Hoffa's car?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 22, 2025 03:19 PM (je3ji)

134 "What about an old fashioned post hole digger? That wasn't there either. So I decided the bird feeders can wait."

If you are looking to put in top mounted feeders, I use black Iron pipe. I use 3/4" or 1" depending on size of feeder, three sections of pipe, two couplings and a flange to attach to the bottom of the feeder. Attach the coupler tightly to the pipe to be buried so the threads are not damaged by the hammer blows. Set the second coupler fairly high so squirrels can't aim for it to get over the squirrels guard, but low enough for ease of detaching the feeder for cleaning without fiddling with the flange.

Setting the feeder this way makes it easy to move occasionally around the yard.

Posted by: Dusty at June 22, 2025 03:19 PM (JjNlG)

135 Okay. So.. we um have been unburdened by what has been... and with that we look for the good umm well as you know haha umm hehhehehe *cough excuse me. Umm where were we? Oh yeah as I was saying umm Iran got the bomb and there is no more Tel-aviv. Thank you and goodnight!!!

Posted by: Alternate timeline president kamala at June 22, 2025 03:20 PM (LgDgc)

136 Whip It was her best movie.

Posted by: polynikes at June 22, 2025 03:01 PM (VofaG)

Thanks!

She was excellent in "Hard Candy" too and still kind of cute, in a weird way.

Posted by: Stateless.. 40% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 22, 2025 03:22 PM (jvJvP)

137 >>> He discovered the post wouldn't stand up straight because it was resting on the front seat of a car. A completely buried car he knew nothing about.

!!!

My daughter says there's probably a body in the trunk.
Posted by: Wenda at June 22, 2025 03:14 PM (Uz2Kf)

In new subdivisions contractors will use the whole area as a dumpsite thinking they can bury everything deep enough. Broken equipment, generators, whole vehicles. One problem is giving food to termites, when they dump a bunch of lumber, depending on how it was treated. Also as stuff rots it can start the soil caving in.

My neighbors and I dug up all sorts of junk, along with giant rocks typical of around here.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 22, 2025 03:25 PM (cduTK)

138 My daughter says there's probably a body in the trunk.
Posted by: Wenda at June 22, 2025 03:14 PM (Uz2Kf)

Bunny Didn't Tell Us is a story about revenge from beyond the grave, in this case, the coffin in that grave is a stretch limo that a murdered pimp was buried in

Posted by: Kindltot at June 22, 2025 03:28 PM (D7oie)

139 I was and still am happy to have been able to fill in today.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2025 02:13 PM (QXQ4l)

Thanks MisHum!

My FWP (well one of many): my garage is completely filled with boxes, junk, more boxes, more junk, it's basically become a dumping ground. Throw in a rat problem that we had and you have rat poops etc (eew gross). I want to clean everything up but there's no room to organize stuff in situ or really even move around. I've let it go for too long and I can't take it anymore (not going to blame my wife, not going to do it...) So now I guess I gotta rent some pods or uhaul portable storage and go that route, in the heat of the summer.

Posted by: The call is coming from INSIDE the house at June 22, 2025 03:29 PM (8hxDK)

140 Too bad CBD's incommunicado.

He could give us a pretty good idea of how the bombing is playing with the You're a Peein's.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2025 03:30 PM (iJfKG)

141 140 Too bad CBD's incommunicado.

He could give us a pretty good idea of how the bombing is playing with the You're a Peein's.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2025 03:30 PM (iJfKG)

Honestly ? Don't give a shit how it's playing with them.

Posted by: jsg at June 22, 2025 03:32 PM (iGK7y)

142 buy a dumpster and a tarp

Put anything that has resale value or actual family treasures on the tarp, and everything else that is neither gold, a tool or a firearm into the dumpster.

You don't have belongings if you can't get to them because they are covered in other belongings. You just have "urban compost" of the sort that those Fentanyl addicts roll around in shopping carts from highway over pass to highway overpass.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 22, 2025 03:32 PM (D7oie)

143 121 Salutes from Jerusalem:

https://tinyurl.com/2vpdwbrx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2025 03:03 PM (NC42u)
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And from Tel Aviv:

https://tinyurl.com/82ne8xp8
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2025 03:06 PM (NC42u)

That is so sweet! It's nice to see a sane response to Trump's actions.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 22, 2025 03:33 PM (rF2iL)

144 When excavation was done to install our cistern it quickly became apparent that we picked a spot where the former ranch dumped all of their trash. 2 dump trucks later filled with tires, shoes, a water heater, bumper from a truck, bailing wire, you get the idea we called off additional clean up. The excavating company back filled with a bit of trash and the rest soil.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 22, 2025 03:35 PM (2NHgQ)

145 142 buy a dumpster and a tarp

Put anything that has resale value or actual family treasures on the tarp, and everything else that is neither gold, a tool or a firearm into the dumpster.

You don't have belongings if you can't get to them because they are covered in other belongings. You just have "urban compost" of the sort that those Fentanyl addicts roll around in shopping carts from highway over pass to highway overpass.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 22, 2025 03:32 PM (D7oie)

Perhaps also put The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning on the TBR pile.

Posted by: Ask not for whom the bell tolls at June 22, 2025 03:38 PM (PiwSw)

146 First world problems are a consistent source of pleasure.

You need to be thankful your life can provide these issues with so little true consequence.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 22, 2025 03:38 PM (hKoQL)

147 92...Where's the nasal whining, the sense of entitlement, the spite?

Posted by: Bombadil

Oof, my bad! I assumed this was a CBD thread. I didn't mean to knock Mis Hum.

It just goes to show, CBD is his own brand.

Posted by: Bombadil at June 22, 2025 03:38 PM (MX0bI)

148 So you can get a 100 foot long banner made and delivered in 24 hours? Or they had those on hand just in case they might come in handy?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 22, 2025 03:18 PM (wWEE9)
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I think they were put up already last week as a response to Trump's standing by Israel and threatening Iran.

But from other ads here, I think the ad and billboard companies can work very fast when they need/want to.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 22, 2025 03:40 PM (NC42u)

149 My FWP?

I had a personal record for drive time between Spokane and Seattle until I hit traffic TWO MILES from my place.

I missed it by ONE MINITE.

Four hours, two minutes. It was super easy drive. Made great time. Passes were a breeze.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 22, 2025 03:41 PM (mT+6a)

150 Just planted a One Way street sign my wife found and wanted in our backyard. Dug the post hole digger, or two handled heart attack. Love, love, love digging in our hard clay I do. Got er done, half a bag of redi mix and the sign proudly stands! Plumb even!
My yard yells if I try to not edge, I can't sleep. I have used a 2 stroke powered system for years. String trimmer, then edger. Good results.

Posted by: Miflin at June 22, 2025 03:44 PM (aA6YN)

151 Congratulations to DJT and senior officials for keeping op sec. We have all talked about discretion, but we have never seen real time results.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 22, 2025 03:45 PM (RqH5H)

152
You know, if this was December 22nd instead Gay Pervert 22nd, it would be dark by now, and the furnace would be firing, and I'd be happy, thinking of Christmas Eve.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 22, 2025 03:46 PM (ntCiD)

153 FWP…gotta buy a new putter. The wood one I have needs to be refinished and I can’t wait 6 weeks for it to be done.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 22, 2025 03:46 PM (3Ope8)

154 First world problem: being able to live where you want (preferably far away from general bullshit. And neighbors).

Corollary: Being too far away from first world amenities. Something my wife and I go back and forth on quite a bit.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 22, 2025 03:47 PM (MZ+PY)

155 They have 3 more lots that they will building houses on on my street/ culdesac. I'm not looking forward to the construction noise and mess.

Posted by: polynikes at June 22, 2025 03:47 PM (VofaG)

156 130 Here's a post problem I bet none of you have had.

The guy who tunes my piano says he's never been able to keep the post of his mailbox straight. He'll shim it and it will last for a few weeks or a couple of months but then lean again. So even though he has no handyman skills (bcse musician) he decided to rent a posthole digger and dig an official hole.

He discovered the post wouldn't stand up straight because it was resting on the front seat of a car. A completely buried car he knew nothing about.

!!!

My daughter says there's probably a body in the trunk.
Posted by: Wenda at June 22, 2025 03:14 PM (Uz2Kf)

Nope, never heard of that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2025 03:49 PM (QXQ4l)

157 My first world problem is my yard work is done as part of my HOA fees and they ain't that good because it's not done with love. They have a lot of houses and they just want to get done with each house as soon as possible.

Posted by: polynikes at June 22, 2025 03:50 PM (VofaG)

158 At least Sunday drive is almost like coming home at night but rest of the week it takes me a hour and half to get to Delaware

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2025 03:52 PM (+qU29)

159 When excavation was done to install our cistern it quickly

Did your brethern also get installed?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 22, 2025 03:54 PM (kTd/k)

160 157 HOA fees

Yeah, that was a dealbreaker when we were house hunting. We ended up building and screw anyone who doesn't like what I do in my own yard.

Posted by: jsg at June 22, 2025 03:55 PM (iGK7y)

161 Digging holes in my sandy region is easy. What is difficult is the numerous pine, oak, gum and hickory roots that lie in the first 12 inches of soil. For that I have a long steel rod, 1 inch diameter, about 20 pounds with a point on one end and a 1 1/2 inch blade on the other. Very effective.

Posted by: CapeFear at June 22, 2025 03:56 PM (+JzKz)

162 Gonna be in triple digits next week and Tha’ lil Puddin head baby had to put her car in the shop, so I get to ride the scooter so she can drive my car.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 22, 2025 03:57 PM (3Ope8)

163 NOOD Food

Posted by: DaveA at June 22, 2025 03:57 PM (FhXTo)

164 My FWP today is Verizon sucks and we've decided to switch to Starlink because maybe it's 10 seconds faster

Posted by: jsg at June 22, 2025 03:58 PM (iGK7y)

165 I have to kill a half-day in NYC in a few weeks. I'll be on the one-night trip with my wife, but she will be at the Whitney for several hours and I have to fill that time. We are on or near 46th Street, she tells me, close to Broadway. I already plan on killing time on the first day at a nearby beer garden, and I can spend forever at the MONH, but looking for suggestions.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 22, 2025 03:58 PM (2cS/G)

166 154 First world problem: being able to live where you want (preferably far away from general bullshit. And neighbors).

Corollary: Being too far away from first world amenities. Something my wife and I go back and forth on quite a bit.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 22, 2025 03:47 PM (MZ+PY)

We moved from a house outside the city limits to a house just a few blocks from downtown. We can hear city parades and festivals from our porch. We have great neighbors (helpful but non-intrusive) and we are enjoying being able to walk to church, the library, parks, and restaurants. It's been a good transition for us, especially having a smaller yard as our yard work ambitions have decreased.

Posted by: Emmie at June 22, 2025 04:00 PM (rF2iL)

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