I'm in the house to cool down after finishing mowing the front yard in this very hot and sunny Texas day. Is it summer yet?

I'll be taking days off a lot this summer, because I have nearly 3 weeks of days to use up. Loose/lose, great what spell check doesn't catch, isn't it?

My day off was productive and busy, though it was not without expense. One savings--I bought a push mower for Moonglow on Wednesday, that was in the box in my back seat until she picked it up. Yesterday morning I swung by a couple of garage sales and spent $12 on her behalf. Found a nice little Mouli cheese grater ($2) and a Craftsman push lawnmower ($10). I literally snatched that from under my neighbor's nose--this after we visited and I pointed out that she had the habit bad, because I was at her garage sale last month and saw how much stuff she had stuffed in her garage (she used to run booths in antique malls). She had just asked if the mower worked and I literally handed my $10 over to the seller and said "I need to buy that mower." Neighbor was kind of startled, but I told her this was for a daughter in college with a neighborhood association breathing down her neck for tall grass. We pitched the last mower that died after it couldn't be repaired. No oil or gas or spark plugs to fool with on this one. The new one went back to Sears last night.

SRS