Tuesday 3-26 Mowing the Yard

Beautiful sunny day

What a gorgeous day!!! It got to 75 degrees. The sun was shining, no clouds in the sky. What should we do?

The first thing we did was go to Sunbelt RV, a small plastic clip that holds the power converter door closed in the Minnie had broken and Larry was unable to find one anywhere on the web, he didn't have much hope of finding one at Sunbelt RV but he thought it was worth stopping by, by golly they did have them. Next we stopped by the Bell County Tax Assessors office to get this years tags for the motorcycle. No wait, walked right up to the counter and got taken care of by a friendly employee. From there it was on to HEB for groceries and then across the street to the UPS Store where a package from the Seeds Program was waiting for us.

While we were shopping at HEB they had a coupon if you bought two Campbell's soups you get a free Campbell's special soup. For lunch we had the free soup, Campbell's Slow Kettle Style Santa Fe Chicken Enchilada. I didn't like it as well as their regular soup.

The package the soup came in

 

Our yards are getting out of control. We haven't mowed them this year. So out came the lawn mower. It hasn't been started for a long time, probably last August. Larry checked the level of the oil and added a bit of gas, it took a few pulls but it started up and ran fine. I weedeated around the mailbox and the trees. When I finished the mower was warmed up and I was in business. It took an hour and a half to mow both yards. While I was mowing Larry did some edging on the frontyard. He blew out the garage and the driveway. Our oak trees aren't finished losing their leaves.

Look at all that dust!!!!

Mowing the yards for the first time this year

After the mowing was done we worked on removing weeds, grass and old mulch around a couple of trees. We also cleaned the grass and weeds from the planter in the backyard. I'm going to plant flowers again this year. Last year my flowers did quite nicely until the deer ate them, maybe a fence around the planter would be a good idea.

A couple of years ago I put some silk flowers around an oak tree in the frontyard. After a couple of years in the sun the colors faded. I told Larry I was going to throw them away and buy new ones, he said lets try painting them. He already had a can of orange spray paint so yesterday we bought yellow and today Larry painted the flowers. They came out looking great.

The flowers in our frontyard

After we got finished doing our yardwork Larry asked if I wanted to go for a motorcycle ride.  We drove down to Belton Lake at Rogers Park in Morgan Point. Then we drove around Morgan Point. It was a very pleasant ride. 

Ready to go for a ride

In the evening we rented the second Laura Croft movie called The Cradle of Life starring Angelina Jolene. I don't remember if we every watched it before. It was good. We had a busy day but good.