My Lawn Rose

I walked in after mowing the lawn on Monday and found this pretty rose from our yard with a tall glass of iced white tea and a note from Shannon. Aw.

Yard Flower

Due to the hurricanes that have been strolling the area lately, we've gotten a lot of rain. This means that I can't mow the lawn whenever I want to due to rain. It also means I need to mow the lawn more often, due to the abundance of water the weeds are getting. Although, there are less weeds then there were 2 weeks ago.

The other thing flourishing because of the Hurricane's Gustav and Ike are our roses. The homeowners before us had some roses planted. Three in the back and one by the garage. So yesterday, Shannon went out and got a pretty pink one. :) He said, if they're growing we might as well cut them instead of letting them fall to the ground. There are about 9 more out there too.

Lawn Mowed (after 40 days)

One of the last things Shannon and I needed to buy was a lawn mower. So we checked out the Consumer Reports and found a good buy at a good price. So Monday the 7th we went to Lowe's and bought it. I got home, assembled the handled, filled her up with fluids and mowed the front lawn. It's a good thing to have a mower that starts and stays started. Mom's old mower was just too old...go figure.

Then I got to the back yard. That hadn't been mowed since we moved in (over a month). I went to raise the height of the blades and the metal lever that adjusts the front left wheel broke in half in my hand. Nice. You can see in the pic above, one wheel is silly. I mowed half the back yard anyway, but it was late so I stopped.

Tuesday we went to Lowe's and they said they needed the whole mower, so Wednesday we brought it in (which is a lot of work to cram a lawn mower in the back of our little Tracer, see the pic below). They easily gave us a new mower and last night (over a week later, I know) I mowed the lawn. So now, we have a lot full of brown grass. Excellent.