Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 10, 2016

Maybe I should hire him to do my lawn.

He’s forgotten the catcher.

Is that Rusty? Never give a dog a self-propelled mower!

He’s doing a good job, maybe I’d better not interrupt him until he’s done.

Chester also dabbles in Urban Forestry.

We will never have to mow our lawn up here in the PNW, because it is never gonna stop raining !

Sparky has always been a bit headstrong….

Believe me, whether he wants a tennis ball, and extra piece of toast with his morning coffee…or a lawnmower out of the garage…he’ll find a way!

You can see that he’s taught his friend Chester some bad habits.When he was younger, Tony and Matilda thought about giving him away, hopefully to someone more forceful….someone less inclined to give in…But they realised how much they’d miss romping with Sparky, the companionship…the lawn care…and his special recipe for barbecued chicken.

Monkey…. good to see you yesterday!Working the night shift has been keeping my hours very strange.Rose…. On another forum (can’t remember where at the moment) you posted a strange bit of code…I think it was a typo….but it looked like you meant to type <space> which doesn’t work.

But were you looking for how to make paragraph breaks?I thought you already knew…. so please forgive me if this is gratuitous…There are several ways… but I use this one cos it doesn’t need a closing tag at the end.Just put <br> (which is the code for “break”) at the beginning of the line you’d like to drop down a space.Sometimes it makes two spaces but that’s OK…I use and appreciate “carriage returns” (the enter key) and paragraph breaks because solid blocks of text are very hard for me to read.

Linguist… been meaning to thank you for answering so many of my posts….and for the bananas of course.

As I said to the Monkey, my hours have been strange lately.I’m usually here in the wee hours, on the West coast, which is very early morning, on East coast time.but the last couple of months I’m up even later… and come back too late to post again.

Somebody needs to look for teeth marks on the garage door opener.

“And this is the same dog that cowers from the Eureka? This is very peculiar. Is it possible that Rusty/Chester/Sparky has a split personality? " ponders Tony.

How did that lawnmower lovin’ Labrador cut through the clutter and circumnavigate the chaos of Tony’s garage ?

It wasn’t easy….

Please send Rusty over to my house to show me how to get mine started. he can mow all he wants.If he brings his pals, they could have a “Gran Prix”in the front yard.

Through the new door in the side wall…

Lucky, the Lawn Mowing Lab, ( pictured above ) was caught on camera, as he left the garage.Cameraman Cecil Codswallop was a just waking up after a rather over-extended evening at the TikI, which caused his normal steely eyed focus and steady grip to be a tad shaky.

I just use the return key and a period.to leave a space.

Rusty is such a good boy, always ready to help out around the yard. The only problem is that he ignores the finer points, like avoiding Margaret’s flower beds.

Well, first i have to apologize for not doing an update for a while.Not much to update is all. I went to the antique mall yesterday and picked up my first check. After they took out next months rent i ended up with $22.oo for the campaign. Not much, but not a loss either. It is still a failure from the advertising point of view. No new donations from any shoppers there. Im going to keep it up thou, as long as i make enough to pay the rent and other caregivers (the boss included) keep giving me things to sell.I still might get that deep pocket antique shopper donate to me sometime this summer when the tourists start showing up.Today i need to go into Lincoln City to take care of some personal business so i think that ill stop by Goodwill and see if i can find any eye catching dust collectors there thats not to expensive to put in the booth next week.

You go Rusty Boy, drive with your feet and steer with you hands, well front paws anyway. Tony you should be asking how did he fill it up with gas. Where is he going and where has he been. I would call the Park Rangers if I was you and maybe the highway department, your insurance agent and the local paper since you haven’t open an instagram account yet.

I got a $25 donation this morning!Woo Hoo!I need to post updates more often!Thank you!You know who you are!

Talented dog!

that’s the one

By the way…Dogs with lawn mowers tend to make bunnies nervous.

google “ghost wheels”