Awake: 5:58am Temp 48 sleep 6+15 mostly sunny overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
No morning Mass today, but it’s important that we join the Koffee Klub meeting. When we return to our camper, I call Ken & ask him about using his John Deere tractor to mow our golf course. “When would you be using it?” he asks. “As soon as you deliver it” I tell him. Ken isn’t sure but he’ll check his schedule & give a call later.
I call Larry in Wisconsin. He called off his hernia operation for now & will have it done later this summer.
I take time out to read more tech info in our manuals about our motorhome systems. In (6) yrs, they have made many changes & a lot of high tech improvements.
In prep for our future travels, I ask Kathy nicely & (in her spare time), if she would make copies of the toll road prices in Ohio, Indiana & Illinois off the Internet from the Department of Transportation. She agrees.
Mid afternoon: Ken calls; he will bring the mower over today. Hot diggity!
Kathy is walking over to the church hall to help the ladies bag those noodles they made yesterday. Then they will go into the big freezer until picnic day early morning. She reported that they made & bagged 67.5 lbs of noodles this week; 167.5 lbs now made toward the 275 needed for the chicken soup on Picnic Day.
I start mowing the golf course @ 4:25. A lot of this grass is over three feet tall, especially inside the circular driveway. I hesitate to cut this tall grass right now as Matthew was having so much fun making trails last Wednesday but Ken did mention that he would like to have the tractor back when I’m finished as he has immediate plans to use it again.
So I mow for about (2) hrs around the outside of the circular drive & west of our motorhome; being careful to keep the platform as high as possible & not mow the strawberries down. About (5) inches will clear most of the wild strawberries; this yr we have an abundant crop. Al K. drives his quadrunner over to check my progress. We chat for maybe 10 min & then, back to mowing. Eventually that tall grass had to go; like Kathy says about some of her hair cuts: “it’ll grow!”
I mow straight through to 9:35pm. The time was ideal: cool & very few bugs. Even using the tractor’s headlights, it was difficult in the dark to see everything I felt necessary to see, so that was enough for today. Maybe another (2) hrs tomorrow will finish the job.
After a good hot shower & then some wine, cheese & Snyder’s pretzels, my 2nd wind never kicked in & we both zonked out in bed.
Today’s high=66 Lights out: 11:50pm
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