Disposal of old building materials wasn’t part of the garage repair, so Friday I called the garbage collectors to arrange pick-up for tomorrow. Boards can be no more than 4 feet in length, and while the handyman had cut down most of the siding, a few boards still needed to be cut. So I grabbed Bucky, my trusty chainsaw, off the shelf and plugged him in. Given that I hadn’t used him since last summer, he worked a treat. No problemo, zip zip cut. Yes, he’s electric, but I haven’t lubed or cleaned him since I inherited him from Dad, and I can’t help but think he could use some tlc. A trip to a repair shop may be in his future, just as a preventative measure.<\/p>\n
FWIW, Bucky’s a McCulloch, Model EM300s-16–if anyone has a manual, I would greatly appreciate a copy. I hunted around online, and the one place I found that may have had a pdf wanted me to register, which was something I didn’t want to do.<\/p>\n
Bucky the Chainsaw. Sounds like a character in A Child’s Pop-up Book of Serial Killers.<\/p>\n
I’d pitch it. To the right editor.<\/p>\n
And yes, I think that’s a sign that I am in Sunday Evening Mode. Cranky. Tired. Not ready for Monday. At least dinner worked out. Alton Brown’s Swiss Steak recipe<\/a>–I recommend it.<\/p>\n I can’t believe it’s 830pm already. I say it altogether too often, but where in hell did this day go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Disposal of old building materials wasn’t part of the garage repair, so Friday I called the garbage collectors to arrange pick-up for tomorrow. Boards can be no more than 4 feet in length, and while the handyman had cut down most of the siding, a few boards still needed to be cut. So I grabbed Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","tag-around-the-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}