we are still spinning

Sunday, we went to Christina Watson's graduation Party at the War Vets in Fluvanna. Everyone seemed to have a good time. Did you ever notice how much noise rain makes on a steel roof?

Yesterday, and today, Lester and I entered the world of professional lawn mowing. We both agreed we don't like it. Yesterday, we did about 8 large lawns on the shores of Lake Chautauqua, across from Chautauqua Institution. I think these people all have money. Huge homes on large expanses of shoreline and several big boats at the docks. I guess they cannot afford lawn mowers, or they do not how to operate them, or possibly they have enough money to pay someone else to do it. Anyway, the poor mowers took about 4 hours of mowing to complete the job. Two mower operators, two mid size Kubota tractors with 60 inch mowers, combined with very wet and long grass, equals some pretty messy lawns. But they got mowed. Combined with the mowing time, is travel time, as each tractor has to be loaded on the trailer, chained down and transported to the site , which in this case was about 7-8 miles.

Today, we did only 6 lawns, which were big but easier with fewer treees and shrubs and other obstacles to work around. It was close to 4 hours each, with the same loading and unloading process, and slighty shorter travel distance. The grass was considerably drier, which yielded in some better looking lawns.

Remember that Ray has only one tractor to use so his mowing times are slightly less than double ours. Anyway, Ray came home today, and last night stated he would be on a tractor by this weekend. By the time he got home today, he had changed his mind about being ready this weekend. So I guess we will have to do it again next week sometime, depending upon weather and schedules.

We have our "TurkeyFest Jam" coming up this Sunday and will have to focus on it for the rest of the week.

The scab came off Lauras nose today and it looks ok. We are waiting awhile before we decide what to do with this situation. We have 2 years to file a claim.

To make life more interesting ,we have visitors from Chicago coming in Friday. This would be Bill and Sherry Levy, who also live in Hermits Cove during the Winter months. Unknown how long they are staying.

Thursday is supposed to be our fun day, as we are scheduled to go to Darien Lake with Derek and his kids, and Shawn and Cheyenne.