I just cut the lawn for the first time this year. It felt pretty good. It’s actually been quite a while since I cut the lawn myself, now that we’ve given that job to Kevin as his way of paying room & board. But I forgot just how therapeutic it feels, especially with my new knee. It feels like pretty good therapy with the bumpy lawn’s twists and turns I have to take. Seems to give it a good workout and I even get a few thousand steps in.

It’s not like I had much of a choice though. Kevin is working today, and today is the only dry day for about the next 7 days. Yep, we’re going to get rain for 7 days in a row, if not longer, and I knew I couldn’t wait another week before cutting the grass for the first time. It would just be way too long and too difficult for Kevin to do at that point, so I had to get out there today and just git ‘er done.

I just finished the mowing and realized I left my keys in the house and the back door is locked so I’m locked out of the house. The puppies and I are sitting out in the backyard waiting for Mom to come home now. We don’t mind though, it could be much worse. The sun is out, everyone else is mowing their lawns too, and the puppy’s love running around in the backyard, especially with an audience looking on. They’re putting on quite the show, chasing each other around, chewing on leaves and sticks.

Last night was even more interesting in the backyard. I let the dogs out for business reasons and there were two bunnies in the yard. The dogs started chasing them in circles. One got away under the fence but the dogs were too close behind the second one so he just kept running in circles. After about four laps he was far enough ahead so he slipped under the fence and escaped. The puppies were pretty winded after that, but seemed like they really enjoyed it. I gave them each a treat, even though they failed to catch their prey.