QUESTION-Is the tractor mowing down flowers or the driver?

Hi Everybody!
I have a question as you can see and I know the answer but my husband keeps dening he is NOT mowing down some of my perennials when he uses his J D tractor (I know he cares more for it than he does me; I don't mind after 22 years of marriage). I still think it is him even though he says it isn't him and I know a tractor cannot drive itself. Hey, I can hear ya'll laughing!
Thank GOD the same perennials are in my daddy and brothers yard!
Somebody also sprayed my 4 O'clocks with round up when they 1st started coming up; well, it didn't work they are doing good and starting to bloom. My husband says he has no idea why they turned brown, but he will let me know if he finds out!
Does anybody at DG have this same problem? I also wonder if this could be a reason for a divorce but, I have no where to go and I LOVE MY HOUSE!!!!
BoopsieTN

My DH is very carefull with my 'babies' but I have a very good friend on DG who could scorch your ears with stories of her DH and the weedwhacker. LOL I'll see if I can get her to post them.

You need a few signs that say:

PLEASE do not mow the flowers.
It makes them flat and hard to see.

ROTFLOL

I'm glad to see that I am not the only wife who has this problem! I always offer to drive the tractor and mow so he can work in the chair shop or garden and he won't hear of it (I have Meniere's Disease in both ears) he is afraid I might fall off the tractor. He knows when he does this stuff and just laughs when I remind him not to mow them down 'cause he will do it anyway.
Thanks to everybody for their messages.

He knows I took his picture but didn't ask why. He will let the grandkids ride with him when they come to visit and even let our son-in-law drive it around the yard last time they came to visit from Miami Beach, FL (with 5 kids there is never a dull moment at their house).
My hubby doesn't want me to plant any more morning glories in our 2 acre yard, he told me I could plant all I wanted across the highway where we have 3 1/2 acres. I'm gonna get him back 'cause I have a tree that I'm gonna fix up and plant light blue morning glories all around it (while he is at Bunny Bread fixing machines). I think they will look good since our house is light blue.

Boopsie, I quit fussing on my DH's blind mowing, when he said to appease the Garden gods, a few sacrifices are necessary for the benefit of the majority.

Well, I did forget to mention that he is blind in his left eye (1st outbreak of Shingles on right side of his face in 1997) finally had 1st cornea transplant which didn't work at all after about 6 months, now this 2nd transplant seems to be doing ok (3 years) but still can't see very good and may never-it doesn't affect his hunting or golf and working in the chair shop He will be taking Valtrex the rest of his life to keep the S virus at rest.
Oh! We don't fuss just tease each other about the mowing, I just wanted to start a new thread to find out if any other DG member goes through this and meet some new members.

Boopsie here I am!! Sorry, Kwanjin said that I should post my stories but I was in Joplin visiting my dad and haven't had time to come on.

My husband Dave doesn't mow down my plants because I have them all along a fence in a flowerbed, but he will get the weed eater out and whack them down! I banned him last summer from even using the weed eater, but he said that it seized up and he bought a new one this past spring and I have lost a few, like a few Peony's that I had just transplanted, I was out there when he did it, he stood still for a minute, said a few choice words, then whacked my Peony's down! Of course he's blind in one eye too and blames it on that, his retina or optical lens or something is shattered from being hit in the eyeball from a rock... he was weedwhacking his mom's yard probably 8 years ago and hit a rock and it got him right in the eye. The last time he went to the doc was about 5 years ago and they didn't have the technology yet to do a transplant yet but I think the technology is there now. He sees everything starred, drives him nuts.

Anyway, he blames it on the plants, they shouldn't be there. Of course I tell him that he doesn't need to be using the weed eater in my flowerbed but he doesn't listen. One time he killed everything with Round Up too a couple years ago. Funny how nothing of his gets destroyed, I'd like to whack some of his plants but they're all vegetables so that wouldn't benefit me at all, so I just decided that he's just a moron and when he's out weedwhacking I need to be out there to babysit.

Crissyr,
Its amazing that both our husbands are alike! Yes, the technology is out there to do a cornea transplant; we drive 70 miles 1 way to see his specialist at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, TN (my hemotologist and Hep C specialist is there also). He is 53 now and his dr. says that some people never see out of a transplant, but he sees better than me.
He is too lazy to use the weed eater and I would die before I attempt something like that. Yeap when he was spraying the round up I showed him a wild clematis I had found in the yard (thanks to bird poop) and told him I was gonna dig it up-well guess what-it turned brown from the round up but that's ok I have found more and got them in water right now until I find a place to plant or I may just put them in a old flower pot and give to someone.
Glad to hear from you!

Ha! That's funny, I won't use weed eaters either, I don't like being hit with all of that crap. Dave isn't lazy at all, but very very hyper. He just turned 50 on May 20th and he runs circles around me, I'm 38, then again he runs circles around everybody. He'll weed eat all of the weeds around the house, fence lines, garden area, and the storm shelter, then mow the acre, then blow the acre to remove all of the leftovers, then spray for bugs, then pick some veggies, then come inside in a 2 hour period. He's like the tornado that cleaned up the mess. I love him to death and am very glad I have this kind of man because I'm lazy and wouldn't do hardly any of it myself. In fact, if anything happened to him I'd sell it and move to a homeowners association, I'd rather pay someone to do it than to do it myself LOL

Yup! Weed eaters and Round Up! I just don't understand why it's so hard to hit a plant and miss a weed, especially when you start cussing about hitting the plant before you hit it! I about died laughing when I watched him do that.

Oh! I planted a bunch of daffodil bulbs and guess what??? He used the hoe to uproot weeds and there went all of my bulbs, I put them in the one place he never uses a hoe. Good grief!

I'm going to find out what is broke in his eye, I just don't remember, I know that if you look into his eyes that one's pupil isn't round but looks more like a blob. It does adjust to light though.

I am sure he may need a cornea transplant and they do it while you are awake after numbing the eye. Where does he get all that energy?

I have no idea! He drives me nuts, and right now he's trying to quit smoking which is making it worse, plus we have this attitude going right now, everything I say is an argument, I'm trying to be the good supporting wife and bite my tongue but it's hard, I do not like being talked down to, there's no reason for it unless the person talking down is trying to quit smoking.

Happy 4th of July!!
Well, my husband made a liar out of me-he used the weed eater last Wed! I was in the front part of the house in Betty Boops room and heard a roaring noise, I didn't know what the noise was so I left the computer went through 3 rooms to get to the door, went to the front yard, there he and his monster were just cutting weeds away. I yelled at him to stop after I saw what he was doing (he had already cut down some July Beauty and my old fashion lady slipper) he thought they were weeds. I told him I may just need to hire my brother to take care of our 2 acre yard since he really doesn't have time and my brother knows a weed from a flower (he loves plants and flowers also). It would look so much better if he would allow my brother to drive his precious John Deere and use the weed eater. I wouldn't tell Russell that though; don't want to hurt his feelings.