Awake: 6:02am Temp 52 Clear Overnight @ Nicktown, PA
K & I walk to 8:00am Mass…..then join the urbane coffee members for over
an hr. Roger is our new guest in town from Texas (high school classmate) &
has been visiting friends & relatives over the Labor Day Holiday. He has
been a nice addition to our conference room conversations.
Afterward, I return to our bus & have a quick breakfast & then….get after
the (brute)…..the brush mower. I mow more tall grass on our property for a
good (4) hrs until I run out of gas. I had requested Kathy earlier to make
a fuel run for I was running low so now I get a break & wait for her
return. I must have drunk (3) good & cold glasses of water during my break
time. After filling the brush mower’s fuel tank, I mow for another hr
until Kathy signals me that Roger has arrived for a scheduled visit.
Roger & I used to pal around together with another classmate Gary P. in
high school. For the past 30 + yrs, he’s been living in Harlingen, TX with
his wife & family & doesn’t get back to his home town of Nicktown very
often. We sit outside on our camping chairs, drink water & soda & talk
about the past, present & future while we snack on Triscuits, different
cheeses & mixed nuts. Later I give Roger the nickel tour of our home on
wheels. Roger leaves & I return to mowing the tall grass for another 1.5
hrs until darkness sets in.
Kathy has been busy in the kitchen today making zucchini cranberry cake
and starting on green tomato squares. She also made a pot of fresh tomato
and green bean soup, using Florentz’s tomatoes and Gary C.’s green beans.
Total time for brush mowing Saturday & Monday= 11.5 hrs. I figure it would
take me another 10 hrs to finish mowing our entire 6.9 acres. What I have
done though makes our circular drive & parking site look more suburban.
9:30 dinner: BLT’s using Florentz’s fresh tomatoes.
High temp today=78 Lights out: 10:31pm
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