I mowed today. \u00a0Pretty soon I will have to mow twice a week but this week I was able to procrastinate and only do it once.<\/p>\n
As I was mowing I was thinking about the weather forecast. \u00a0The NWS (National Weather Service) has been advertising some ugly weather beginning tomorrow evening. \u00a0You know, flooding, tornadoes, large hail, the whole lot. \u00a0I was happy to have the extra time today to get that mowing done!<\/p>\n
Thinking about the weather, I am afraid that I let my mind wander a bit and I was not paying as close attention to my straight lines in the yard. \u00a0Horrors! \u00a0I messed up a pass in the yard~it was crooked! \u00a0This would not do!<\/p>\n
I saw a way to remedy the situation. \u00a0If I could make a pass really, really close to our wild plum trees, I would straighten out my boo-boo. \u00a0That is what I tried to do. \u00a0In my enthusiasm for fixing my mess, I was not looking out for the next obstacle. \u00a0Yup. \u00a0I drove right through a spider web!<\/p>\n
Argh! \u00a0I hate driving through spider webs!!! \u00a0I was flailing my arms, trying to get rid of the web. \u00a0Hoping against hope that the spider was NOT attached to the web! \u00a0MFH (My Favorite Husband) and my son were gone fishing so I could not run into the house and have MFH check for spiders. \u00a0Crossing my fingers, I decided to keep on mowing.<\/p>\n
I FINALLY got my lines in the yard straightened out, by the way, and continued on.<\/p>\n
My next unexpected encounter was with those nasty, black and yellow bumble bees. \u00a0Those things to not like mowers! \u00a0The ones we have here are very, very grouchy! \u00a0They come after you like no-body’s business! \u00a0They were not there last week, so they must have just moved in. \u00a0I will have to look into where their nest is and encourage them to move on. \u00a0This was all on the West side of the yard.<\/p>\n
The East side of the yard is less complicated. \u00a0There are no plum tress, or the ham radio antenna and guy wires to mow around. \u00a0For a little while, you can just mow back and forth and back and forth without any obstacles. \u00a0That is, until you reach the apiary (honey bees).<\/p>\n
I got stung pretty good on my face last year mowing too close the the bees. \u00a0I learned my lesson and respect their “space.” \u00a0I give them a lot of room. \u00a0After I have done the rest of the mowing, I go back into the house and change into my “bee suit” and finish the rest of the mowing around the bees.<\/p>\n
The chickens are also on the East side of the property. \u00a0They are opportunists. \u00a0The chickens love mowing day! \u00a0Mowing means new bugs! \u00a0I mow in circles around the chickens for a few passes. \u00a0This scares the bugs into running into the chicken area and the chickens are there to eat them! It is fun to watch. \u00a0Silly chickens.<\/p>\n
I did not mow as close to the Crepe Myrtles as I did last week. \u00a0I do not like those things! \u00a0They are difficult to mow around and we have eight of them~four on the East side and four on the West. \u00a0Last week when I mowed I found a tick on my hair from those things. \u00a0I do not like them. \u00a0I would cut them down in a heart beat if I could talk MFH into it. \u00a0He likes them and they are pretty when they are in bloom. \u00a0Other than that, they have no endearing qualities.<\/p>\n
That is it! \u00a0I got the mowing done. \u00a0If we get all the rain that the NWS is advertising, I may not be able to mow again until next weekend! \u00a0We (MFH and I) will move the chickens up close to the house on the East side the try to protect them from the weather we are supposed to get and other than cleaning out my bedroom closest (aka: tornado shelter) I think I am ready!<\/p>\n
Whew!<\/p>\n
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