Free Kittens

Today we talk about the great (mother effing) outdoors. We have about 3/4 of an acre of land. Everyone in our neighborhood has a riding lawnmower, except us. I now understand why. When we moved here the grass had already grown so much that we had to call in professionals with their big-time mowers to do the first cut. It was very fun to watch them, but also out of our budget (53 dollars for the cut and weed whacking). It's only been 3 days but the grass was starting to get too tall for comfort. If we let the grass grow too much then our mower won't cut it and then we'd have to hire the 53$ guys... no thank you.

Today's schedule:

8:30- wake up

until 10:15- clean up a bit around the house and eat breakfast

10:30: go buy salt for the water softener (7$ for fifty pounds of iron remover plus salt)

11: grab ipod and mowing shoes, attempt to pour gasoline into mower... most gets in

11:03ish: mower starts on first try... I think I'm a rockstar

blah blah blah...

I got through the entire front lawn and decide to stop the mower to empty the bag. That was all good until it didn't restart. After much cursing, a cut finger, 1/2 liter of blue gatorade, and 10 minutes to rest, it restarted. 20 or so minutes later, it ran out of gas... replay me trying not to spill gas, replay me trying to start the stupid thing again, much more cursing, and it's off to more mowing. It got me all the way to the point where I had about 5 rows worth of mowing left when it stopped... why me??? Ok... again, much much much more cursing, more gatorade, more time and it's working one more time. Sweet! the home stretch! or so I thought. It does well until I have 8 feet left to mow... 8 freaking feet... and it dies. I'm sweating. I'm tired. I'm pissed. I walk around the house a few times and I consider just leaving the 8 feet... however, I'm OCD and to pigheaded... top off the gatorade and get it going again.

I WON! The lawn is now mowed. My shoulder and entire right arm is exhausted. I can't wait to do this again... NOT.

Finally... to round things out... we got lawn furniture... found it last night while out to get gas. It was 20 dollars for 3 pieces (we had to go out and get new cushions). They also had kittens there... anyone want a kitten? They were cute.

PS... I finished kreffles shoes. They're awesome. Pictures to come.