Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Mowing with Style

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

15 March 2009

Mowing with Style

Need to do some mowing? Not happy for some reason?

Try some sunglasses.

A pink handbag will take you anywhere.

Strike a pose.

You're ready to mow. You'll turn heads.

9 comments:

Swift Jan said...: HAHA How gorgeous!!! I love the last last one, looks like she's steering with her foot lol!!; 15 March, 2009 11:12
Long dark hair, blue eyes said...: what a cutie.; 15 March, 2009 11:30
Joy said...: Now that's adorable!
All Girl!; 15 March, 2009 11:53
Tracy P. said...: Look how big she is!! You need a baby.; 15 March, 2009 12:43
Sassy Britches said...: All it takes is a few choice accessories to make a girl happy and confident all over again!; 15 March, 2009 13:22
CynthiaK said...: She's got it all figured out! A few stylish pieces and the girl is good to go. She's such a sweetheart.

That's quite the lawnmower, too! Sheesh! Puts my push mower to shame... Can't be nearly that glamorous when sweating to death while pushing my eco-friendly (yet unbelievably exhausting) non-electric mower. Damn environmental obsessive husband...; 15 March, 2009 14:19
Jen said...: So now I know why I hate mowing, I never did it like this before. I am keeping this in mind for later. :); 16 March, 2009 03:02
musingwoman said...: Stylin' :); 17 March, 2009 11:32
stefanie said...: I see a convertible in her future...; 23 March, 2009 12:38

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In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

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15 March 2009

Mowing with Style

9 comments: