Awake: 6:02am Temp 53 sleep 6+12 sunny overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
K & I attend 8:00am Mass & afterward Kathy joins the Koffee Klub members for an hr. I walk back to our coach, change clothes, eat a healthy Kathy muffin, & spend 2.3 hrs mowing more grass with the John Deere.
Today being Thursday, again I invite Kathy to our Rotary meeting & lunch; in the distance as I mow, I catch a glance of Kathy motioning me back to the coach for a clean up & change of clothes. En route to the Cambrian Hills Golf Club we stop @ Best’s Service Station for diesel fuel for the John Deer Tractor.
The Rotary meeting was good; lots of discussion relating to the Golf Classic of last Friday; how to improve the day & make the game move along a little faster. Some of the players were so late in finishing their game that they couldn’t stay for the dinner.
Speaking of food, our lunch today was very tasty: meatloaf, pasta, creamed cucumbers with onions & tomatoes and chocolate cake for dessert. Wait there’s more: Kathy also won the 50-50 chance for the 2nd week in a row. I’ll be inviting her for lunch more often. On our return to Nicktown, we make a quick stop @ the Giant Eagle for some groceries.
My 1st cousin, Florentz, is picking wild strawberries in the lower field when we arrive. My mowing of the tall grass helps my cousin not only find the berries easier but also the berries will ripen faster by getting more sunshine. Today he picked (2) quarts in (2) hrs.
Melissa arrives with the boys @ approx 2:00pm. I change back to my grass mowing attire & ask Matthew if he would ride with me on the tractor to finish up mowing the lower field. He does, but not for long; he wants to get off & says: “It’s too bumpy!” About (30) min later, I am finished. Total time for all of this mowing: 8 hrs 15 min. Next time, I will ask to have the blades sharpened before using the tractor.
Melissa suggested that Andrew might like a tractor ride also so I stayed on smooth ground & did not use the noisy mower system & Andrew seemed delighted.
Next, I fill the John Deere’s fuel tank with onlookers Melissa, Matthew, Andrew & Kathy. After 8.3 hrs of mowing, it took only (4) gallons to top off the tank. Pretty thrifty I thought. Oh yes, Kathy helped by holding the fuel container & the boys were watching both of us closely. Could they be watching for a spill? Then I call Ken & let him know that I am finished with his mower.
After that we all take a rather long walk down the quad runner trail & into the woods for a change of scenery. Matthew found a tree frog and was delighted when the little guy let Matthew pick him up and rode in his hand for a while. With some encouragement, he let the frog go and then spent the rest of the walk looking for another. Then the Footes visiting time was up & they had to leave. We say our goodbyes, do the wave, & away they go.
Without the boys, I clean the mower, tractor, & then myself. About an hr later, Ken arrives to retrieve his John Deere. We talk for a spell & I invite him & Theresa over on Sunday for a visit after their 8:00 Mass time. He will talk with his wife & let us know.
Late dinner: Popcorn with the movie: “Bound for Glory” with David Carradine, Ronnie Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, etc. Life of folk singer-composer Woody Guthrie, superbly played by Carradine, with great feeling for 1936-40 period as Guthrie travels the country fighting & singing for the underdogs, victims of the Great Depression. 1976. A moving story, no pun intended, but beware of shorter prints.
Today’s high=81 Lights out: 11:41pm
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