Need I say more?

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Check this out:

Missed the bench by less than an inch.

Missed his lamp post too.

Think I would have been safe sitting there? I believe I would have.

The storms aren’t over yet, they have the warning out until 6:00 PM so I do believe I’ll head over to Laurie’s quilt shop and help her to close. She’s not too keen on these kind of storms you know.

And it looks like we’ll be running the chain saws when this is over…ya’ think?

Tags: northeast kingdom, storms, weather

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Ain’t life just grand though?

And so it was that I happily tossed the gas can into the back of my old Jeep Cherokee and down to the local gas station I went where I was met with the first minor shock of the day. Gas was now $3.60 a gallon for regular. Oh well, it’s not like I haven’t been reading about it on the news.

Second minor shock of the day–it cost me an even $9.00 to fill up a 2.5 gallon gas can. Well hell, why not? With oil reaching $121.00 a barrel as of yesterday morning I was lucky to get it that cheap I figure so I can’t complain too much especially when it won’t do any good anyway.

So off home I go, filled up the tank on our old self propelled push mower (wish my cane was as easy to use as this thing) and around our lawns I go, happy as a raven at the site of fresh road kill. The mower even started on the first pull no less.

So 45 minutes later, with a screaming back but a blissful smile on my face I rolled the mower back into the garage glancing joyfully at the almost* beautiful, nicely trimmed carpet of green grass (*there was still some areas where the rough winter had taken it’s toll and there were rather large patches of brown here and there). Since I was still mobile enough and against all common sense I then decided to haul out our ancient wheel barrel and commence to emptying all the bags of last fall’s leaves that we had thrown up against the side of the foundation on the windy side of the house and dumped over the bank in the same place I dump the grass clippings-something of a Vermont tradition you might say. The fact that it actually provides a good insulation factor is another point in it’s favor.

Another thirty minutes and I had finished this chore as well which was a good thing indeed since by then my busted back was not only screaming but filing for divorce as well. Since this morning, my back and I have reached an accord and it’s withdrawn it’s divorce filing from the local court so all’s well there.

It’s supposed to rain for the next couple of days which ought to make the grass grow nicely once mower…I mean more.

Man! I just can’t stand the wait!

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On top of the wonderful weather we’ve been having there’s a new moon coming up on Monday which means of course that the cats are acting like they’ve been possessed by some sort of demon from hell, keeping themselves busy by beating the crap out of each other then rushing over to meow piteously at me. If their eyes get any wider I’m afraid they might fall right out of their heads and roll around on the floor. It’s such a bother cleaning all the specks of dust and the occasional cat hair off of these “gone astray” eyeballs before popping them back in the cat’s head. You have to be real careful not to get eyeballs mixed up between cats also otherwise you’ll have one cat seeing what the other one is looking at and there’s no end to the caterwauling until you get it straightened out.

The sun’s supposed come out tomorrow and warm up to around 65 degrees which means if the grass, which has been growing steadily now due to the rain, dries off enough I just might be able to do the first mowing and thus satisfy this horrible urge I’ve had to rumble the blasted mower around the lawn. I’ve never been able to figure out this ungodly obsession I’ve always had in getting the lawn mowed. It’s not like I’m one of those anal retentive types that absolutely have to have a perfectly manicured, weed free, trimmed and edged lawn that looks like someone could knock a golf ball into it at any given moment. I could care less about weeds, their green aren’t they? And I only edge a lawn when it grows more than halfway across the sidewalk. At that point I’ll knock it back a bit.

Ah well, I think I’ll put on my ball cap and wander outside for a look around the place just to say I did. Can’t sit around here all day with three crazy felines now can I?

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Okay… alright, I can handle this now. The grass isn’t up yet…it still thinks it’s…well…April fer heavens sake and April in the Northeast kingdom is not supposed to be up in the 70’s for days on end. It’s supposed to be in the 50’s around here, I mean we’ve had snow storms on April, wet heavy things that leave a foot or more of the kind of water-logged snow that the plow guys and gals absolutely despise due to one plow blade full usually equals a half a ton of snow they have to push around. Tends to break welds and mounts on the plow and tear up lawns and such.

But now they don’t have to deal with this but I have to deal with my normal obsession with a clean cut lawn which usually doesn’t rear it’s ugly head until the middle of May or so.

I know, there’s still small twigs and a few leaves in the lawn that I couldn’t get up with the rake. Yeah, I could get them up with the lawn mower! Yeah…it has a bag on it, it’s self propelled so I probably won’t hurt my bunged up back too much. Yeah…yeah…I could do that! I could just run that around the lawn, clean it up a little…

*Sigh*

Maybe I better just go sit down at the waterfront for awhile instead. Keep me out of trouble and the neighbors from looking at me funny. The mower would probably appreciate more.

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