Do you find that you make plans for a weekend and then find life rearranges them for you?
This past week was undoubtably the week from Hell. In addition to loosing Defer, a good sized tree gently folded itself over onto the corner of the house over our bedroom. It seemed to me that the skylight had become rather shaded by leaves, and I mentioned it to DH. He, of course, had the good sense to go out and LOOK....and found the tree leaning on the roof.
He spent Wednesday evening cutting off the smaller branches, and as much of the trunk as he could reach. There's still a portion of it waiting for his attention, but he needs to bring a taller ladder home to be able to do it.
Meanwhile, good soul that I am, I got the rider mower out to start doing the mowing. Normally that's DH's job, but he was otherwise occupied. I got the pocket lawn right in front of the house done, and started a strip along the east side of the driveway, when the mower deck started to shudder. DH checked, and the blades are still there, but one of them is probably bent. I called the mower service and they are running TWO WEEKS behind. They won't even be here to pick it up until June 25th! Meanwhile, the grass is growing so fast that I can hear it.
Sooooo.....rather than going shopping for clothes and new shoes, I'm going to check out the rental place to see what it costs to rent a lawn mower. I expect to get my exercise in the next few days. We have easily an acre and a half of grass to mow, maybe two.
In all fairness, DH has had to give up a day of sailing to work this morning, and he plans to work on clearing up the downed tree branches. So, I'm not alone in this.
God works in mysterious ways. As I was sitting here, moping about the mowing, he let me get a glimpse of a deer passing through the shadows of the grove outside my window. Then, she came back to dine on the leaves on those branches that have to be picked up. Maybe it won't be so bad to be outside after all.
Sunscreen, here I come!