Big Week

This week was a big week for the Brow/Gwillim household. I awoke yesterday morning to the smell of freshly cut grass and the sound of a lawnmower outside my window. It sounded a lot closer than usual, so I walked outside to investigate. Low and behold, there was Ryan...mowing our lawn! OK, so him physically mowing the lawn wasn't the incredible thing. The incredible thing was that he had gone to Sears first thing in the morning and bought a lawn mover. It's a craftsman self-propelled mower. Originally $300 but marked to $150 because it was scratched, and had been used a handful of times. The lawnmower could not have come at a better time. The mailman was going to have to start using a machete to get to our mail slot. The grass was actually taller than our bird bath.

To top it off, we have a few squirrels in a big tree out front who eat seed that Ryan leaves for them in the bird feeder. They scurry down the tree, and hop the 5 or 6 feet to the bird feeder, and feast. They've been doing it so much that they have left a well defined path in the grass between the tree and the bird feeder. When Ryan mowed the lawn, the path became even more obvious. Because the squirrels parted the tall grass along their path, sun was able to reach all the way to ground level along it. Now that the grass is cut, their path stands out even more because it's still green and lush and didn't turn brown from lack of light.