The first mowing of the season finally took place last Sunday afternoon. I’ve not gotten to spread seed nor fertilizer so it was spottily overgrown and I’ve got too many weeds trying to get a foothold. Ah, but I do like it when it is freshly shorn.
A second chore that day was blowing all the spring tree detritus off the driveway and into a scoopable pile for disposal. It’s not hard work but it does take time.
There was one other major chore but here comes the backstory. A bit down on his luck, held back by a drinking problem that might be marked more by surrender than battle, a former neighbor’s need of water for his problem-plagued station wagon was instrumental in leaving the outside faucet running after he filled up his jug. That is why I also got to spend Sunday afternoon running the shop vac to get rid of the flooding in the cellar during our short record-breaking April heatwave. Hey: at least my pumping situation still worked like a charm because otherwise that would have been a lot of buckets to tote sloshily up the stairs and out the back!
Water in the cellar: not guaranteed with every rain or snow system, but a recurring issue nonetheless: see 2010, 2013, 2020, and 2024. The dilemma usually is not manmade, though!
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