That Grass

It's finally rained some out here, and the lawns are all looking great!  Basically all the grass around here used to be brown and dried out, but with just a little rain everything came shooting back.  The air is much more humid now too, and so there's a lot of dew on the grounds in the morning which likely helps as well.  Anyway, I was out in Chicago last Saturday, so I missed the mow.  It's only been like 2 or 3 weeks, but a LOT of the lawn was a solid foot tall.  I spent a LONG time mowing yesterday and still didn't finish.  The lawn mower would push over the grass so I'd have to go forward, then pull the mower backwards, and back and forth, and with how long it was it used up the battery FAST!  We'll see how it goes next week with more normal growth, but we might need a new lawn mower to keep up with this lawn!  At the end of the day yesterday there were still large swaths of foot tall grass, and so we searched for pokemon!  Look close and you'll see a Bulbasaur in there.

This past week I've found a new friend out in the mornings when I leave for my runs.  I think I'd say this frog is cookie size, and if that's not clear because cookies can be many sizes, it's the size you WANT your cookie to be!  I've seen it at least twice, and avoided stepping on him when he was on the sidewalk.

I "reconnected" with my old Gameboy from when I was a kid.  It used to be Tyson's, but he let me have it when I was a kid and I sure loved to play with it.  The screen eventually started to break on it, which I've since learned was pretty common.  It also sat in my parents toy closet for years, and when I found it again a year or two back the screen lens had fallen off.  Anyway, not in a great state.

I ordered a new screen kit and shell, and now it looks much better, and the screen is backlit!  I fixed it up so I could let my kids play with it.  Hopefully they'll enjoy some of the games I loved as a kid.

Winry's class has been being super good, so they got to have a pizza party on Friday, which meant making these pizza crafts and dressing up like chefs.

And now this weekend we've been watching general conference.  The kids have been being pretty good, and it's either they're having a good time with an activity, or I haven't heard a thing!

Oh, when Monica put Grayson down for his nap yesterday he... designed an obstacle course.  Guess what, he didn't take a nap.

And that's a wrap on this week.  I'd say things, in general, have been going a bit slow since we've moved out here.  The weather is finally cooling a little, and we played tag in the back last night.  The tall grass made good hiding spots.  The weather is supposed to cool off a little more, so I think we'll be able to go play in the backyard in the evenings which will be great, and I need to go mow until the battery dies each day this week to try to get through all that tall grass!  Oh, when I was putting the lawn mower away yesterday I guess there was a lizard on the shed door, and when I opened it it fell down onto my back, and then jumped inside the shed.  It was quite the surprise.