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Old 06-30-2008, 01:19 PM   #11
limey
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[quote=Glinda;465920]Great vid, Griff. I lust for such a nifty tool out here in my neck of the woods.

Some day I'm going to have the neighbors video me with my scythe*, as I whack down the ever-advancing brush along my gravel road, so ya'll can see how much fun us country folk really have.


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Twenty or more yeras ago I stayed for eight months at a language centre near Paris where one of the staff used to keep the vast expanse of garden grass short as a lawn with a scythe. It was far more restful listening to the rhythmic swish of him cutting the grass than to the angry razz of the motorised mower that most people would have used.
Thanks for bringing this memory back for me, Glinda!
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