We prefer Murphey’s in our house. A $15 large feeds us for two meals, and we get to choose how crispy/burnt we want it.
We are now home from our road trip to South Dakota.
Do the Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse things? Or something else?
My wife had a chatting buddy from a professional organization who is a civilian employee at Ellsworth Air Force Base (the air base outside Rapid City). We stayed in Rapid City for two nights, and spent the day between doing Rushmore, Crazy Horse, met the friend for dinner, then went back to Rushmore for a stirringly patriotic after-dark show.
This was all on our “drive around Nebraska.”
When I was there a couple of years ago, I noticed that exactly one garbage can was different than all of the others. It was shaped similar to the garbage can that hid the entrance to the OWCA’s travel tube system in the “Candace Loses Her Head” episode of Phineas and Ferb. I’m surprised Dr. Doofenshmirtz never found that. Then again, he was busy getting his Drill-inator ready to drill to the center of the Earth.
If you want to see it, check picture 9 and 10 in the slideshow in my “Retracing how Candace lost her head” article for the Tri-State Gazette.
Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday.
The cake wasn’t a lie. In fact, there were four of them.
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Visiting family, primarily. We did see Reptile Gardens.
Independent bookstore day is this Sat, and there will be a Neil Gaiman
exclusive for sale!
I mowed my lawn today for the first time.
Yeah, that happy feeling goes away after a few weeks.
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The $25 I pay my lawn crew is the best money I spend all week, every week. Fuck grass. Down here, it never dies. You gotta mow that shit every goddamn week, even in January.
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OK, all kidding aside, I really don’t mind mowing the lawn, especially here at the new house with its nice, big, open, rectangular spaces. It’s 45 minutes where I’m not having to deal with 2 kids fighting with each other, I can catch up on a podcast or two (depending on runtime), and when done right, it can be almost zenlike.
I spend $90/month for someone to come mow the lawns and keep the bushes trimmed. I hate yard work, but I enjoy raising veggies. :shrug:
Definitely nothing wrong with that—Laura loves gardening and taking care of the flowers. But something about that lawnmower just makes me vibrate with hate. I think it was the fact that as soon as I was old enough to use a lawnmower without killing myself, my dad happily saddled me with that chore. I have endless memories of having to drag myself out of bed at 8am on summer Saturday mornings to mow (because waiting until later meant mowing in >100F heat, ugh).
My son took over that chore last year when he was 12. It was a happy moment in my life although I wish he would cut in straight lines.
Yeah, that’s my issue with it too. I pay my brother $50 a month to come mow my grass as often as it needs it. Screw heat, bring back my winter.
My daughters never did like mowing the grass. My oldest at home now won’t because the self propelled portion is broken. I keep telling her she could work out less and be in better shape if she did more physical labor, but deaf ears and all that.
I pay $20 a mowing, if someone is willing to do it. And it’s only a tenth of an acre, including the footprint of the house.
I have five siblings… but the grass was mine as soon as I got big enough. Older bothers (1) and (2)? Oh, they have part-time jobs (Funny, though, once I did that excuse went away).
Younger brother (4)? Oh, he has allergies… he can’t cut the grass.
Younger sister (5) and youngest brother (6) were never old enough, until I got full time summer jobs.
So I hates it, too. Not enough to pay for someone to do it, but enough that it is “chore” not “fun.”
I don’t need to mow the lawn to escape dealing with that. 
Its more like mow the weeds and foxtails en la casa de Gnat. But I don’t gripe to much cause I do it for the little dawgs, and the wife does the lions share of the cleaning in the house.