#mowing

Plowing Mowing Hay

I’ve been waiting a long, long time to do this again. Mowing the grass is awesome and if you have a classic 1952 Ford 8n Tractor, it’s even MORE awesome! As a fixer-upper guy, I have various levels of lawnmowers. I use a push mower up around the house. I use a riding mower in the smaller sections of my property. Then I get to break out the big guns with my big tractor and shredder…

This morning was gray and overcast once again, but not deep and dark. It remained that way throughout the remainder of the day, but with a high reaching 70 degrees, the afternoon felt quite mild. The overnight low was 48.

My blood sugar jumped up to 188 at today’s glucose level check, a bit of a jump from the last few days. Sometimes the day’s food works out, some days not so much.

After finishing our coffee and playing the usual brain games for the day, Nancy did a yoga session, and I updated my Flickr account and other social media.

Then we had oatmeal for breakfast, followed by showering and getting dressed.

While we were getting dressed, Kathleen and Ronin showed up to mow the back yard. While she waited for the mower battery to charge, Kathleen came in to have some oatmeal for her breakfast.

When she went back to finish the yard, I took the car to Scooter’s Car Wash, and once it ran through the wash, I vacuumed out the front and back floors. Before returning home, I went for a blended mocha from Native Coffee on 42nd Street.

Not long after I returned, Ronin and his brother Sawyer delivered the first two wooden garden beds they built for us to our back yard.

Before Nancy took off with Grace for her 4:30 p.m. vet appointment, I started out for my afternoon walk. I arrived home just moments before they did, having completed 2.64 miles in a little more than 57 minutes, a total of 6,200 steps.

We walked over to see Sophie and bumped into Kathleen and Ronin just coming back from a walk with her in a stroller. Kyle and Seran were out shopping for a new truck. Then we were invited to join them all for a dinner of hot dogs and hamburgers. Ronin came back over to get a bag of charcoal out of our shed.

We took sliced cheese and potato chips over to Kathleen’s for our contribution to dinner. Kyle and Seran arrived a short while later, having found and bought a new truck. It won’t be ready to pick up until next Monday.

After dinner and visiting with everyone, Nancy and I came home just about 8 p.m. We immediately kicked off our streaming entertainment with the next episode of “Silent Witness.” It will be another week before we can see the second half of the story, since we’re not willing to shell out any extra bucks for an upgraded membership to BritBox.

The slight chance of rain that had been showing up on the forecast for Saturday finally disappeared this afternoon. Tomorrow will be another gray and overcast day, but the high might make it over 70 degrees again, rising from a lot tonight of 49.

If the weather does remain decent in the morning, Nancy and I will head over to the Eugene Saturday Market for the first time since it re-opened at the beginning of April. Nancy wants to visit the booth run by the Rooted Remedies owner, since the business no longer runs a storefront. Other than that, there is nothing on our schedule for the second day of May.

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On this day in 1866, the Memphis Race Riots began, resulting in the deaths of 46 blacks and two whites. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

May 1, 1852, was the birth date of Calamity Jane, the American frontierswoman, professional scout, sharpshooter and storyteller. Born Martha Jane Canary, she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok. She was also known for her habit of wearing men's attire.