Yard Work

Travis enjoys watching the yard people in our neighborhood every Thursday. For those of you who aren't familiar with these services, they are usually pairs or more of men who travel around town in a truck pulling a flat-bed trailer with various pieces of yard equipment: lawnmowers, edgers, blowers, rakes, hedge trimmers, etc. Some of the trailers are more make-shift than others. They are very efficient and are actually fun to watch sometimes. If Travis had his way he would follow them around all day from job to job. There is one particular company that does several yards on our street so they are here for at least an hour every Thursday.

So we were out watching them yesterday, and over the summer Travis has invented his own versions of their equipment. He has the little lawnmower, which he loves to use, but yesterday he noticed that his lawnmower doesn't have a bag on the side, so I had to tie a trashbag on the side and "empty" it a few times into a pretend trashcan. And the men use gas-powered blowers that are packs they wear on their backs, so last week Travis asked for his backpack to wear as his blower and the strap that adjusts around his shoulders is the blower nozzle. And we have to gas it up from time to time when it gets low. And the small rake that we have he uses as an edger, and he had Randy attach a small piece of the plastic string that edgers use so that it's more realistic, but yesterday he said that it needed something on the back like the guys' edgers (the motor). I am stumped on how to recreate that, so if anyone has any ideas, we're open. I am debating getting him one for Christmas, but I love his imagination so much that I hate to squash it.

And this is Justin. It doesn't need any explanation, but I think the caption should be "Look Mom, no feet!"