Yesterday was a pretty nice day, and I'd been putting off the whole 'yard' thing for a while. I guess I was kinda hoping that I could somehow turn it into a great adventure, but with a front lawn that gets most of the day's sunlight [and has a big fucking tree in it], there's really not much adventure, or sport, or anything.

I suppose there could be. Anyone interested in starting an Extreme Ultimate DustMowing Team?

Yeah. Me neither....

The back yard does okay. Well, half of it -- the half that's under the trees, in the other corner of the lawn. I don't know what's up with that....

The other half of the back yard is full of healthy weeds. I don't know what's up with that, either.

Gremlin was nice enough to mow the worst of the overgrown section of the back yard -- you know, the really tall grass that got really tall because it's in the shade, leaving the less-tall stuff to me. And the edges of the yard, where there's really, really tall stuff to be gotten with the Thing Which Would Mangle Faces.

This thing:

Oh, and this is what the yard kinda looked like, except some of the tall stuff was already mowed by the time I took this picture.

And this is my lawnmower.

While I was destroying weeds with this Weapon of Mini Destruction, Gremlin was committing acts of chemical warfare on the rest of my lawn, spraying weeds with...I think it was RoundUp. I'm not entirely sure -- I saved the information sheet from the back of the bottle. It's sort-of an experiment, to see which brand of weed-killer actually works.

Before all this, I cleared out part of the wood pile that was in the back corner when we moved in -- dead tree stuff. I can only throw away so much of that sort of stuff per week, so I stuffed it in force-flex [or ultra flex? whichever brand], and discovered that they don't actually work on pointy sticks. Or pointy fingers. Or probably much of pointy-anything.

So, that's a let-down.

I probably should've put out the rest of my solar lights yesterday, but after all that yardwork, Gremlin decided he wanted to go for a bike ride. I went along, on foot, to take a bunch of pictures of trees and stuff, because there are flowers now, and that means I can experiment with other functions of the camera.

I guess.

Here's some random thumbnails. They'll probably occasionally include at least one of the pictures I used up there.... [Edit: disregard that last part]

Oh, and....

This is someone's cat. I'm not sure if it's a missing cat or not -- and nobody from my neighbourhood is likely to know about this website -- but it's someone's cat. The kids that were playing in the area [before the mother called at least one of them in] said that its name was 'Tiger', but who the hell knows?

On the subject, I think we may've really done something to that person's sense of safety. I'm sure we look nothing like the sort of people who belong in the neighbourhood. I don't think I care, though, so long as it doesn't suddenly develop into problems for me, and interrupt my walks.

That would be inconvenient.

On the subject of all things inconvenient, and since I don't seem to be able to stay on topic in this post, I bought a table, and it didn't ship until yesterday. And I didn't get a tracking number, because it shipped through the company's service, and they seem to be incapable of tracking their own stuff.

I'm sure there will be more on that later.

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