LOL! Slow and steady wins the race! :)
Evidently not slow enough for my back. We have company tomorrow so today I mowed the whole place on Little Red. Clyde decided it was a fine time to have a bad starter. I was super sore from planting the Helleborus Saturday. Bouncing around on Red (not a smooth ride!) didn’t help. Toting the blower to clean off the driveway added to the overall soreness.
I’m trying to make food for tomorrow. Apples are cooked for cobbler. Walmart was out of the bagged Cole slaw mix so I had to buy cabbage & get out the food processor which is always a mess to clean up. Cole slaw is mixed, but clean up has not yet occurred - it’s going to be a struggle. I still have to make potato salad - that might have to wait ‘til morning. My back isn’t ‘out’, but it’s very unhappy. I’m also really sore between the shoulder blades - all the chopping hard dirt & lifting heavy stuff.
Getting Clyde fixed is going to be a problem. He won’t fit on my trailer unless I take off the mower deck. Even if I can get the deck off, I don’t know how I would get that heavy mower up the ramp because it won’t run. I looked at the console where the starter should be & I see how I can get it off. I am going to research changing out the starter with the goal of doing it myself & see where that takes me. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Survived the night i.e. got the slaw/food processor mess cleaned up, went to bed, & actually got some sleep! I feel like a semi-new person this morning.The potatoes are on to boil at 7:30 & I am cleaning the kitchen as I go.
The couple coming to visit are hiking in the mountains first, so I don’t expect them until mid-afternoon at the earliest. I plan on having an apple cobbler in the oven about that time - love the smell of cobbler baking. We have BBQ, slaw & potato salad & cobbler if they want to stay for dinner or just cobbler & ice cream if they only want a snack. I’m betting on dinner because the guy & mom will be talking up a blue streak & it won’t be a short visit.
I still have to trim, blow the rest of the driveway (ran out of battery last night) & shovel some mulch in a few places around the front walk.
Nature Report:
While mowing, I noticed quite a lot of deer poop around the big acorn tree at the front corner of the house. This is evidently a major ‘acorn year’, at least for this tree. I had taken a Helleborus out of the pot & was cutting roots before putting it in the freshly dug hole - in that short amount of time there were already 3 acorns in the hole. I got those acorns out - do not want oak trees growing with the Helleborus! When I peeled & cored apples for the cobbler last night, I put the scraps under the acorn tree ... some deer hit the jackpot & got a surprise treat!
Scared the dickens out of Dodger while mowing yesterday. He (or she) is not as mower tolerant as Bunbun who would have moved off a bit & kept on grazing. Dodger took off as if a pack of coyotes was on his tail .... something that could actually happen around here.
Potatoes are done - time to move on to the rest of the recipe. It’s a 2-stage ... a ‘dressing’ that goes on the warm potatoes to soak in, then a creamy dressing to finish it off. At a minimum, it will be tastier than Walmart’s!!