Friday, July 20th, 2018…… My sister came over
today to walk Quincy. Rylee is in
lockdown for running away on us yesterday. Ollie was again on his walk and she
went out the back door and Lydia couldn’t stop her from running around the
house and out into the street to see her buddy.
So, since I had to go out and put a leash on her just to drag her home,
I’m pretty upset with her right now. Lydia had her outside this morning and
since she wouldn’t ‘come’, she put the leash on just to let her walk around the
yard.
After Penny left, I
got out the mowers and we started in on the grass. We were only going to do just the lawn but I
went ahead and started in on the field and between both of us, we got it all
done in about 90 minutes. I got the mowers cleaned up and gassed up and left
the Husqvarna out. Kirk came by about noon and took it for his now-regular job.
He’ll come get it on Fridays and return it when he comes to work on our
flowerbeds on Tuesdays. Only this week he’s going to check to see if he can get
it in for the service I have been wanting to do on it. It’s important now that
Kirk will be using it weekly. Tomorrow I will use the catcher on my tractor and
run over the grass again to get the clippings. But that only takes about ½ an
hour or so. We did let Rylee out later
in the evening on her own and she’s minding a bit better now. We’ll see how
that goes…
Saturday, July 21st, 2018…… After our walk, I
headed off to get breakfast and Lydia’s chai latte tea. I’m not much into
coffee now that it’s warmer, so I skip that for the most part. I’d rather wait
to drink iced tea or have a Mountain Dew or a Dr. Pepper later when it’s hot
out! I watched a bit of the Tour de France (day 14) and then went out and put
the catcher on the mower and got the excess grass picked up. After that it was
a bit of rest. Penny came over to drop off Quincy for the day. She has a sprinkler crew coming today. She
has really low water pressure for her sprinklers (only started this season) and
I haven’t been able to find out why so she’s called in the experts. Quincy
would be a nervous wreck so she’s coming to her ‘other’ house.
Ok, the guys have come and gone from her place.
They did some digging and found another shutoff valve. I don’t know if I had
mentioned this before but when the previous owner was prepping his house for
sale, he covered the flowerbeds in weed control material and then ground mulch. Problem was that they covered the sprinkler
shutoffs with both the ground cloth and the mulch and hid those controls! We
found one and the guys found another today so at least that’s done - but it
doesn’t affect the water pressure. She
will have to have them do some more tests on the system to try to isolate where
the water pressure is dropping. Meanwhile, we just hung around the house and
rested for the day. Lydia made a chicken/green
bean casserole and that was tasty. Plus, we will have enough for leftovers
tomorrow! I finished watching my bike race then watched the Nascar Xfinity race
and then some of our taped shows before calling it a night. Rylee's doing better listening to us but we haven't encountered Ollie yet!
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