A Whole New Meaning to "In The Hood"

This was taken by my best friend Lauri's guy while he was scouting job sites. It's so cool I just had to share it. Good job, Leon!

Yard Work

I mowed the back 40 yesterday, go me! You wouldn't think it would take two hours to mow this thing, but take my word for it, it does. There are so many obstacles, the sheds, trees, tree stumps, horse shoe backstops, rocks, cement. I don't know how many times I caught the blade on a rock, ugh. I still need to get at it with a weed-eater. Also, I wouldn't mind doing something to make that path you see (made by our dogs), permanent.

Today I pulled weeds along the side of the house. I feel accomplished! Sore, but I'm glad I don't have that niggling in the back of my mind. At least, for a while.

Mowing The Lawn

Our back 40 has needed mowing for weeks now. With all the rain we’ve been having the grass hasn’t been able to dry out in-between the showers, so it’s really gotten out of hand. I finally tackled it today, but I didn’t finish cause it’s a big yard and I’m no spring chicken.

While I was pushing the ginormous grass can further back into the yard (there’s a clue, I should have been pulling it), the can rolled away from me and pulled me down with it. I slipped and fell (hard, hit my knee as I was going down and ended up on my side, did a half face-plant thing), and landed almost inside the dern thing. I even said to myself, out-loud, “Man, that hurt.” I’m okay, just sore and will be even more so in the morning, I’m sure.

If it doesn’t rain tomorrow I’m hoping to finish up and pull out the weed eater to get what the lawn mower can’t reach. It’s my least favorite thing to do, but it’s so satisfying afterward to see the lawn looking all leveled out and smelling like something I want to bottle.