Comments on: The Rural Letter Carrier

By: Cabol

Cabol — Mon, 08 May 2006 17:27:42 +0000

Somehow it seems driving like that must be illegal. I have a hard enough time driving those roads with the steering wheel in the same quadrant of the car as my hands.

By: Cabol

Cabol — Mon, 08 May 2006 17:22:37 +0000

I mostly plan to use it to mow around things where our push mower won’t go. When we get critters, I may use it to make “lawn” hay. We have a decent amount of grass, and I don’t want to buy a lawn mower or gas-powered weed eater. Hopefully eventually we’ll have critters to keep most of the bigger areas trimmed down, and then I’ll just mostly be edging. We’ll see.

By: Laz

Laz — Mon, 08 May 2006 13:12:51 +0000

Hey, congrats on the snazzy new site! I already love hearing about life on the farm. I was going to ask what the scythe was for but since they are tools of limited use I guess I can use my imagination. I guess a better question is what sorts of things do you plan to scythe?

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 08 May 2006 05:54:18 +0000

Sounds about like where I grew up. I know for the longest time, my grandfather never once bought a stamp to affix himself. He always left coins in the mailbox along with his letters. And, yeah, that driving from the passenger side is pretty normal, unless they have one of those new fangled little mail trucks with the steering wheel on the right side. Heh.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 08 May 2006 03:38:04 +0000

Having grown up in a small town and driven behind some rural carriers, their sudden lurching towards roadside mailboxes leads me to believe that steering-from-the-passenger-side is not an uncommon occurance.

-A