Yesterday I got to mow the lawn at our new house for the first time. The yard is huge (313 feet from the street to the back fence) and it hadn’t been mowed this summer. Most of the grass was over 12 inches tall and there was a thick grassy undergrowth that was 4-5 inches high. It took hours of sweating, pushing, and restarting the mower to get that backyard done. (The front yard I did a couple evenings ago. A neighbor had mowed it a couple times during the summer, so it wasn’t so bad.)

Today we’re supposed to get the living room carpeting installed, so then we can move our living room in. It’s still at the apartment right now. I can’t wait to have a carpeted living room with comfortable furniture and an entertainment center again. Sigh….