My husband has 2 obsessions in his life – deer and his lawn. My husband’s obsession for deer hasn’t kicked in yet. Once the weather starts to change and the smell of fall is in the air, the deer fever will take over. Like a buck in rut. Until that happens, his mission is to have the perfect lawn.
(T-shirt – compliments of the neighbor kids to the grumpy neighbor guy whose grass you better not step on.)
Saturday morning was like any other Saturday morning. 5:00 a.m. I heard the shower, a couple of marine songs and the garage door close. Aww. The bed to myself. By 6:00 a.m. I rolled out of bed, got my coffee and opened the living room blinds to this…
Bedhead, pj’s and my bare feet I ran outside…
Me: Mark what in the world are you doing?
Mark: There’s a mole in the yard.
Me: Omg what if the neighbors see you?
Mark: See me what?
Friends of The Hunter’s Wife…do you see anything wrong with this picture? Or is it just me? This isn’t camouflage mission whack-a-mole. Or camouflage mission caddyshack.
This is my husband. In my front yard. With a shovel. And a poker thingymajigger. And the boots…for the love of marriage.
And when my neighbor, Mrs. Kravitz, wakes and peeks out her window, I can hear her now…Abnerrrrr, Rambo is out there again with a shovel.
Have a good day all.
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After seeing the photo on facebook, I was hoping we’d get a post about this!! At least the neighbors will always have plenty to talk about…
Nope. don’t see anything wrong with it at all..lol..a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.. lol.. and us women can sit back and laugh about it..( and take pictures..)
Oh my gosh, that is too funny. I hate my yard, so my wife could never catch me in such a pose. If I could I would remove all of our lawn and install astro turf.
What a great picture, though.
Now now, I resemble that second picture! Indeed I have camo shorts and camo dairy boots and have been known to put the two together on occasion to do honey-do’s around the property. My wife was cracking up reading this saying, ‘that’s you – that is SO you!’
So glad you got a picture of that… too funny!
Oh my goodness…did he get his mole after all?
I can’t grow grass so I turned my whole back yard into a garden. Your yard really looks nice.
So, I can sympathize with the guy, Jody. In fact, the roles were reversed recently at our ranch … I was stalking squirrels, hoping to catch them as they climbed out of the attic … in my fuzzy pj’s, camo jacket, orange ballcap and muck boots; oh, and I carried my Ruger 10-22 … isn’t this just what we outdoor hunter types like to do? Mole, squirrel, whatever patrol?
Just thank your lucky stars that Mark’s not an explosives engineer; Mrs. Kravitz would have more to complain about when he detonated the fuel-air mixture he squirted into the mole runs.
As Stacy says, ” … a man’s gotta do …”
I didn’t think mole season opened until September. I would have started with the Trail cams to figure out their nocturnal patterns. I’m also partial to those nasty looking spring-loaded spear-like devices that impale the moles as they move through their subterranean labyrinths.
That is one nice looking lawn, though.
Wolfy
Again, very, very funny.
So, did Mark get the mole. You’ll have to do a followup post.
Notice how there are ALMOST as many posts about that ruddy lawn of his as there are posts about doin’ what ya gotta do and huntin’ some vermin. He’s gonna let it go to his head…
DeerPassion, I had to post here as well.
Stacey, You were right there when it all happened. Well on Twitter at least.
Arthur, Sounds like you need a lawn boy.
Jon, Please share pictures.
Blessed, He makes for good material.
CDGardens, Will post mole update tomorrow.
Joe, My husband loved your comment.
Barbara, If I were an outdoorsey girl I’d want to be like you. And Holly.
Jason, We won’t talk about my husband’s options #3 and #4
Wolfy, My husband loved your comment too.
Kristine, Writing about it tomorrow. Thursday.
Lynsie, Tell your Mom she is Mrs. Kravitz.
Thank you all for the comments.
We have a neighbor who is the grumpy yard guy also. He’s in his 20’s and very particular about his yard. He needs that shirt. He hasn’t went so far as to keep a stray ball but I’m sure he’s thought about it. Oh and love his last comment about the neighbors “see me what?”.