Plans for today (2019-2022)

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The lawnmower has decided I'm cutting the lawn today, tomorrow and the day after...

(Why so many days, it's a large lawn and only a 46cm lawnmower. Estimates put the main front lawn at 25m × 40m = 1,000m². There is 1 flower bed in that area that is roughly 10m × 2.5m. The back lawn is roughly 40m × 10m, the 2 side lawns cover roughly 20m × 15m each... that's another 1,000m².

Total space is about 2,000m² minus a flower bed and a veg plot, but not counting the need to walk the mower down the edges of and center of a 250m long track.

So I take roughly 2hrs each day to cut part of the lawn.... it's as much at I can do.

Mind you of that assumes that the lawnmower starts a second time today, a 3rd & 4th tomorrow... (I'm playing it safe on the starting side of life and carefully case removing the grass catcher to empty it without turning off the mower until I have a lot more faith in it again....)
 
Yeah, round 2 completed.

Time off until tomorrow....
(Strimming (whipper sniper? ) comes after cutting! )

But I must be the only person who has to play dodge with chickens whist cutting the lawn! Big noisy thing, not bothered by it. 'Mum' is paying this patch of lawn a lot of attention, so we must to! Lol. Chickens.
 
Today should be fun.

  • Fantasy market visit (tickets were bought before my foot started to cause pain) , we're keeping it short but going anyway. I want to live, pain or not.
  • Prepping dinner for stepson
  • Birthday dinner at an all you can eat wok which we're invited to by the birthday girl, stepson doesn't want to come because it's Chinese food
  • Buying supplies for my crafting hobby at the fantasy market
  • Resting in between the market and the birthday
 
This morning I am looking to do some weeding in the front garden and mow the lawn, we have had a fair amount of rain lately and the garden has loved it so needs tidying.
 
Last-minute change of plans for today. We drove through a retirement community day before yesterday, but no one was there to talk to, so we left a message and moved on.

They called back yesterday and agreed to meet us today to look around the park. It’s very near the German restaurant we liked so much, so we’re going to try and work in another meal there.

That’s going to be it. They’re saying 95F/32F today, so we’ll see how we’re feeling later, after being out in that.
 
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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Yeah, round 2 completed.

Time off until tomorrow....
(Strimming (whipper sniper? ) comes after cutting! )

But I must be the only person who has to play dodge with chickens whist cutting the lawn! Big noisy thing, not bothered by it. 'Mum' is paying this patch of lawn a lot of attention, so we must to! Lol. Chickens.
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I asked my hubby off he had the same officers with the chooks. He laughed and said hell yes. He had to gently push 1 girl out of the way with the mower last time he cut the lawn. I know exactly which chook that was as well. Can't pick her up or hand feed her, but if your in the garden working, she's be between you and the spade! She got a gentle foot from me to move her aside today. There are several like that but she's the worst. However, one of her sisters won't have anything to do with you until she comes and stands at your feet. Literally in front of your foot. Move and you'll accidentally kick her. The only thing you can do is to pick her up and carry get around for however long she wants. Then she'll decide that's enough and fly out of your arms. Put her down before she's ready and she just stands in front of you again!
 
Had a good day, the market visit was very brief though. Walking is hard even with painkillers. But I got me a nice companion to cheer me up on hard days in hospital or bed.
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Today was a pretty good day, the retirement community we looked at today was very promising. We’re thinking this might be the one.

Funny, too, because the only way we found out about it was we had an appointment at another one about an hour farther west, but she had to cancel at the last minute, but she recommended this place as an alternative; it had completely skipped our radar.

The really interesting thing is…it’s three miles from where my wife’s great-grandad is buried. She wanted to be “near” where her family first settled back when this was a colony…you can’t get much nearer than that.

We also went back to that German restaurant again and split a schnitzel sandwich, fries, and mashed potatoes (yes, we dipped our fries in mashed potatoes and gravy :laugh:) and had a slice of fruits of the forest pie for dessert (and beer with all that, of course).

There and back, we took two indirect backroad routes and really enjoyed the scenery.

Also, I have to relate this story: I’ve always told my wife that she can pick the retirement location/house, as long as I have control of the kitchen layout, and that I can buy a little Italian scooter for zipping out to the shops and back.

What did we see today? A pack of motorcyclists, and who was at the front - none other than a man who looked to be as old as Methuselah’s grandad…riding a bright red Vespa! :laugh:

I took that as a good omen. It’s not like you see Vespas in Pennsylvania every day, especially out in the hinterlands where we are.
 
TastyReuben said:
Today was a pretty good day, the retirement community we looked at today was very promising. We’re thinking this might be the one.

Funny, too, because the only way we found out about it was we had an appointment at another one about an hour farther west, but she had to cancel at the last minute, but she recommended this place as an alternative; it had completely skipped our radar.

The really interesting thing is…it’s three miles from where my wife’s great-grandad is buried. She wanted to be “near” where her family first settled back when this was a colony…you can’t get much nearer than that.

We also went back to that German restaurant again and split a schnitzel sandwich, fries, and mashed potatoes (yes, we dipped our fries in mashed potatoes and gravy :laugh:) and had a slice of fruits of the forest pie for dessert (and beer with all that, of course).

There and back, we took two indirect backroad routes and really enjoyed the scenery.

Also, I have to relate this story: I’ve always told my wife that she can pick the retirement location/house, as long as I have control of the kitchen layout, and that I can buy a little Italian scooter for zipping out to the shops and back.

What did we see today? A pack of motorcyclists, and who was at the front - none other than a man who looked to be as old as Methuselah’s grandad…riding a bright red Vespa! :laugh:

I took that as a good omen. It’s not like you see Vespas in Pennsylvania every day, especially out in the hinterlands where we are.
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Go on, buy one. You'de look cool on that with a red bandana :)

Russ
 
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