Even better....I had Mom asked the neighbor if we could hire him to come spread it with the blade on his tractor and he will be here tomorrow, but isn't going to charge us anything! Oldster to oldster favor!
We took him over some eggs(we do that every now and again through out the year) and offered to hire him to do the job....but our biggest favor we do for him is pay for all the gravel that's ever been applied to our joint 1/4 mile driveway over all these many long years as neighbors. Yep, he hasn't paid a dime one on all the thousands of dollars worth of gravel we apply to this road and the road just absorbs like it's water in a paper towel(clay based soils). He gets to enjoy the benefit of all that money every time he has to get out of the holler each winter.
This is true. I was a strong, 'can lift anything' person all my life until one day I lifted on a 400 lb guy and the other nurse didn't...she just didn't even try and it was an emergency that we do so. I felt something give in my back that day, it took me down to my knees.... and it's never been the same since. Now every day is pain, some days worse than others, but I haven't lived a day without pain since that day in 2005.
That's my thinking too, as it should only take him about 10 min. and the man is so bored he's been mowing his grass when it gets 3 in. tall. I don't think he begrudges us the time or the use of his equipment at all as he's offered to help us many times in a sort of "if there's anything I can do to help you guys" kind of way. We do the same thing and we both work on cutting trees out of the road and such. He'll also go and smooth out the gravel we get hauled to put on the whole driveway, without being asked.
