It's Wednesday and I'm spending another day at the Hastings Public Library.  It's such a fantastic library and I'm wishing that I still lived within district so that I could use it. I'm very tempted to have Peter get the boys their library cards here again and then we could get books and movies from here. The library in Sunfield is ok but it's so small and their hours are so limited. It's one of the downsides to living there. Tomorrow will be my last day hanging out here and all I can say is that I'm glad that they're here.

Another thing I'm glad of is that I didn't run over the guy in the pictures below. This week's photo theme is Move(ment). Roger and I took these photos in our backyard. I was out mowing down the last of the field when I happened to look down after pulling back the mower. Sitting right where I had just mowed was this fellow. It took us about 5 minutes but we finally got him to move over into the flower beds where he'd be safe.

Wow, we all made it to Friday and yet again, it's going to be a busy day. I have my show from noon until 3pm (eastern) and then I have to try to tackle that last bit of backyard that is still swaying in the breeze. If I can just get that down, then I can start properly mowing the lawn.  Then, I need to pack up the boys because they're going to Peter's for the weekend. He'll be over around 5pm to pick them up for the weekend. They'll be at his house until Monday morning when I pick them up. Then, they'll be off to film camp for their first day!

So, what am I finishing? Well, my goal is to finish the first round around that backyard. If I can get through that and the heat isn't too unbearable, I might work more on the van. Yesterday, the boys and I went out and cleaned out the front seat area and part of the middle section. Ok, Ben and I did that while Roger played with the hose. My 32 item list of things that has to get done before the trip got a small nibble taken out of it. Not quite a bite, but certainly at least a nibble.

Midweek and life hasn't slowed down any. I had my show today and also got the kids bathed and laundry going at the same time. The boys and I are doing pretty good on keeping up with our daily chore list so I'm really happy and proud about that. Yesterday, I also surprised them and we went into Lansing and saw Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief. The one local theatre company runs $1 movie specials during the summer so we took advantage of that. While we all agree that the movie is good and worth getting for our collection, we also agree that the books are way, way better.

So, that brings us to this week's photo. The theme over on Sunday Shutterbugs for this week is Long and I think we found just the picture!



This is our backyard. Ok, the picture is really misleading. This is a small section of our backyard. This year, we had the bad combination of no lawn mower, lots of rain, grass/weeds grow far too fast and then battery powered lawnmower.  It allowed our grass in the back to completely get out of control. Every dry day, I've been out there, hacking it down with the lawnmower.  We are now down to a very small segment that should be gone by tomorrow.

Tuesday, Tuesday...another day in our wonderful lives. We don't have any big plans around here for today. I've been asked to put together a couple of websites for TrainREK Radio so I'm going to see about putting those together or at least getting the frameworks setup. I'm also putting together a weight loss blog for a group of us who are forming our own little weight loss support group.

Happy Saturday, everyone. I hope it's gorgeous for all of you. The rain held off here which allowed me to attempt to mow my front yard. I say attempt because I think my new lawn mower is afraid of grass. That's right, afraid of grass. A couple of weeks ago, I gave our gas mower back to my ex-husband. I couldn't get it to work and figured he had a much better chance at it than I had. Then, I went to the Hastings Habitat for Humanity ReStore and bought a "new" lawnmower. You'll never believe this, but it's electric. It runs off of a rechargeable battery. How awesome is that?

Well, not super awesome when you can't figure out how to start it and then once you master that, it acts grass phobic. The darned thing starts right up but as soon as you go to put it on grass, it stalls out. This is not helpful in my desire to get the lawn mowed before the village fines me for not doing it.

Don't worry, I'm not giving up on this poor lawnmower. I'm charging the second battery right now and on Monday, I'll try this process again. I love the idea of an electric lawnmower. It's so much more environmentally friendly. How do you all save the Earth when you're doing yardwork?

Ugh! Where did allergy season come from? I woke up this morning sneezing, watery eyes and half congested. Dang nabbit! I have too much to do to deal with allergies. Hopefully a benadryl will help clear me up enough that I can get into things. I have a lot to tackle today!

The big one though is getting the lawn mowed. All summer long I've tried to get our lawnmower to start and I just can't. Finally, I gave in and asked the neighbor if I could use theirs. They're being super great and as long as I put some gas into it, they don't mind at all. I started mowing last night but our grass is so thick and it was still wet. It just kept clogging up the lawnmower. So, one of my first tasks of today is to go down and put gas into both of our gas cans and then come back and to tackle that lawn!

What are you tackling today?