Island Of Misfits

[joeb631a]

I would go so far as to say someone is handing out price listings for when they cross and start doing landscape work for rich Americans , 300 hundo, 400 hundo seems to be going rate per day

Fock that! pick them up at 10:30 when the others are working and get them for 5 or 6 hours.
I know qualified men who dont make $400 a day and speak english with a car and have their own lunch

 

[Hippie420]

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Old habits are hard to break ....

Way too cute. Had to drag the Old Hen back to the cell to see it. Thanks!

Im the same way, this is 1st yr I ever used guys to help me clean the yard

I still do it. If it can't be handled by the OH and me, it don't get done.

Fock that! pick them up at 10:30 when the others are working and get them for 5 or 6 hours.
I know qualified men who dont make $400 a day and speak english with a car and have their own lunch

Yep. Just drive by any Home Depot. Have a truck or van. They're ready, able, available, and more than happy to work for a decent wage and a human that treats them like they're human, too.

 

[boo]

I have a honduran yard guy, 15 bucks and hour for mr. robert..I got him a full time job with my buddy, lawn care and landscaping...he's now gettiing 25 an hour and won't work for me now...sheesh...
had a friend stop over at noon, just left...poor guy was wrecked head on and now is in bad shape...sent him home with a sack of gorilla breath and one of durban poison...trying to keep him feelin good

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

sounds like that plumber gave you one haircut already

A trim for sure,

You allow landscapers to do your yard work

Once a year for sure and in a heartbeat when I'm not in the mood.

 

[kevinn]

Ya, now they want $200 per day. They have been in country too long. Have to wait for the new batch to migrate this way.

 

[pute]

Good day all around here. New edging in the yard and my trip to the city turned out to be productive as well. I hate the city though..people have gotten to be down right rude there.... especially drivers.

 

[joeb631a]

Thats the truth

 

[SubmarineGirl]

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Thats the truth

Yep

 

[pute]

Well I am pleasantly stoned as a mo to smoking on my own device.

 

[boo]

I guess when my monitor begins to fade that's not a good thing...right hand corner is getting dark on me...kinda like stevie wonder on one side...

 

[joeb631a]

 

[pute]

With that ^^good night.ha ha lol

 

[Unca Walt]

Landscaping crews I've seen are done in 30 minutes, .. something that might take me 2 years to do.

Awright, now you guys have triggered me.

I had the Chateau built 22 years ago on a tad over an acre of land. 22 years ago, I was a young sprite full of beans... so I bought a big riding mower to keep the place nice.

Wore out the sumbitch in three years of riding around in the Floriduh sun, mowing 42 thousand square feet and three hundred linear feet of edging, etc.

Sat down, got out my old engineering cost analysis spreadsheets*** and started doing a formal, real, straight arrow, dirtbag-takes-the-pipe Cost Analysis <-- Just like in the Old Days as an IBM EE.

***Cost of initial purchase, cost of maintenance and repair for riding mower and edger... Listed the observed overall lifespan of the mower, fuel, storage, parts, etc.

Discovered that not counting my labor, it would be considerably cheaper in the long run to contract a team of beaners for twice a month visits (on average = more cuts in summer, less in winter, but costs paid evenly).

I was shocked to find that it was FAR cheaper $$$ to have domebody's hired beaners to come mow and edge my place (and blow off and remove all cut debris) than to do it myself!

 

[Unca Walt]

I have a honduran yard guy, 15 bucks and hour for mr. robert..I got him a full time job with my buddy, lawn care and landscaping...he's now gettiing 25 an hour and won't work for me now...sheesh...
had a friend stop over at noon, just left...poor guy was wrecked head on and now is in bad shape...sent him home with a sack of gorilla breath and one of durban poison...trying to keep him feelin good

God'll getcha for that.

 

[user 60570]

Good morning Unca and all the Lurkers

 

[joeb631a]

Morning folks We finally got some rain

 

[WeedHopper]

Walt,,what's a beaner. Never mind I'll ask my Mexican Wife of 37 yrs... who was a Migrant farm worker when she was young. She speaks 4 languages.
I have 6 brothers in law beaners who all are Mexican Americans Citizens.
My Wife loves DT by the way. And yes she can make a killer bowl of beans. When i say killer,, i mean hot as a mother fker.

 

[stain]

How the argument started... You said, "WE would both go"

It's going to be a LOOOOONG day.

 

[user 60570]

Walt,,what's a beaner. Nevermind I'll ask my Mexican Wife of 37 yrs...whom was a Migrant farm worker when she was young. She speaks 4 languages.
I have 6 brother in law beaners whom all are Mexican Americans Citizens.
My Wife loves DT by the way. And yes she can make a killer bowl of beans.

 

[joeb631a]

Walt,,what's a beaner. Nevermind I'll ask my Mexican Wife of 37 yrs...whom was a Migrant farm worker when she was young. She speaks 4 languages.
I have 6 brother in law beaners whom all are Mexican Americans Citizens.
My Wife loves DT by the way. And yes she can make a killer bowl of beans.

does she make you arroz con pollo?
corn is starting to end but b4 it does i want to make Mexican corn.
When i was a young electrician working in sewage treatment plants I always knew when corn was on sale ....