Cutting the grass

I must confess that I couldn’t tear myself away from last night’s football game, so I saw Texas win the national championship. What a surprise to me and many others. We did sleep well after going to bed. When we wakened, Evelyn went off to exercise while I had to stay here to accept any telephone calls that might come regarding the Ladies Leisure trip today. When she returned at 9, I went for my walk and took a gas can to Ray’s because he had asked if I had one some time ago. I then decided to cut the grass because it was cool and breezy. I have cut it too many times when it was hot and sultry. It doesn’t take as long since the neighbor has opted out of our trade deal. I was to do it in the winter while he did it in the summer. He says he can’t physically do it any more. I knew he was not willing or able a couple of years ago but thought he would pay for the cutting himself. He presented me with a bill of $70 when we returned this fall. I will pay him and would be happy to cut his lawn during the winter as an act of Christian charity, but he still has the yard guy do it. I do have to use his mower and weed wacker so that is another reason for me to do it for him. I am not going to quarrel about it though. After mowing we had lunch early because Evelyn had to leave for Los Fresnos and the butterfly farm at noon. I worked on learning the sermon for a couple of hours but tired of that. I went down to Tom Crouch’s to see how we should proceed with the repair of the glass and frame of the picture that had broken in the motor home. He directed me to the hardware store for replacement glass. It was really too windy from the north, but I decided to ride my bike to the store for the glass and a couple of pieces of sandpaper. I have begun to sand the TV trays that I hope to have painted with scenes of North Carolina. We will try to get the same young man who painted those we have in our Texas room. Tom was gone when I returned so I came home and called Ray to see if he could go to the Hard Hat to play 9 holes but he couldn’t. Evelyn came home shortly after that and went to bed to rest. When she got up, she told me about the “farm”. She had thought she would not like the experience but did. She learned many things among which was the difference between a moth and a butterfly. Look it up! She is always nervous about driving but did well despite construction delays. We had soup for dinner (leftover) and then took a bike ride around the park. We didn’t think the park would ride because they had ridden 5 miles earlier in the day, so we didn’t try to get to the starting line at 6. We missed that ride but enjoyed our own. We came home and watched “Dancing with the Stars”. We enjoy dancing and Evelyn especially wanted to see this program since she had missed most or all of them this past summer. CSI was new tonight so we could watch only the first hour.