summer blokcamp
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Re: summer blokcamp
I actually had my literal euphonium-playing sister in mind until that last part.
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Re: summer blokcamp
If anyone's at all interested in helping Bloke out here, give some thought to what he really needs. I mean, take the 10 acres of lawn? You can mow it for him for a few weeks, or you can help redesign his spread so as to relieve him permanently of that chore. Transform Blokepatch into a place where he and Mrs. Bloke can live in harmony with nature instead of a perpetual struggle of mowers and poisons and so forth against it, and I bet you'll leave with a lifetime subscription to the blokepiece line.
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Re: summer blokcamp
Honestly,
A few goats can do the job without the lessons or conversation
although a tuba playing goat might be something to see....
JJ
A few goats can do the job without the lessons or conversation

JJ
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Always room for more....
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Re: summer blokcamp
This one time at bloke camp...
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Re: summer blokcamp
Geez - I hope the saving grace of Camp Runamuck is that there are alluring women to lust after at the euphonium camp on the other side of the pond. 

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Re: summer blokcamp
Now that I've gotten a good look at all the deal entails, I'm, er, going to be busy. Sorry.
Ray Grim
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- opus37
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Re: summer blokcamp
You know, I kind of like mowing (think Forest Gump), but Tennessee is a bit far from Minnesota and I have lived in Chattanooga for a time. As for your 10 acres of grass, I had a similar problem here. My solution was to turn it into a native prairie. You see a while back parts of Minnesota were a savanna prairie and buffalo would wander around and eat the grass. I bet if you researched naive prairie and your area (maybe contact the agriculture folks associated with UT (aka Big Orange)) you could find a way to convert the area over. It should take a bunch of Round-up and then some specific grass and flower seeds. After a couple of years you'll have native grasses, flowers and no mowing. About every 5 years or so you'll likely have to burn it, but that isn't a big deal. So, if this works, you owe me a few tuba lessons and a bloke piece or two (OK maybe just a rim and an e-mail encouraging me to practice more)......
Brian
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1892 Courtiere (J.W. Pepper Import) Helicon Eb
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Re: summer blokcamp
Joe probably needs to chime in and confirm but I suspect that "full-of-crap outbuilding" may mean chicken coop in this instance.
I am fortunate to have a great job that feeds my family well, but music feeds my soul.
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bloke wrote:bloke "who probably is a pretty good teacher, but enjoys teaching just about as much as mowing"
Gee, I never took you for a "wax on-wax off" type of guy, but there probably is a "Chimbasso Kid" out there somewhere...
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
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And the moving mower or mowing mover shouldn't underestimate the commercial potentials of opening a cruise business for the summer. After all this is a 2(two)-pier pond with its own wilderness island:
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Re: summer blokcamp
An interesting teaching environment. Just hang on:
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imperialbari wrote:An interesting teaching environment. Just hang on:
What you have here is one of those new fangled alternative energy powered lawn mowing machines that run on methane gas - provided entirely by the driver.
These do require that the driver be a certified BAT-P (Big *** Tuba Player) in order to provide sufficient fuel. I'm afraid it will be a challenge finding any potential summer blokcamp attendee (cough...cough...indentured servant) who will come even remotely close to matching Joe's prodigious production.