Memorial Day

Himbeere worked very hard today.  The lawn had gotten quite long - he mowed it.  That was quite a job, because the grass was pretty long.  It had not been cut for about two weeks and during those weeks we'd had a lot of rain.  Our back yard grass grows much better than the front so when I say it was long, it was thick and long.  That means extra time because you have to go slow.  And he had to empty the bagger a lot.  So he spent a couple of hours mowing the lawn, and he was quite hot, and a bit sunburned by the time he was finished.  So he came in the house, drank a couple of big glasses of cold ice water, grabbed a towel and announced he was going swimming.  However, about 45 minutes later he was back.  He had checked three or four of the parks around here that have beaches and swimming and they were all packed with people out enjoying the first holiday of summer, and a warm day at that.  So he filled the little kiddie pool in the back yard and lay out in it. Notice the cell phone on his lap - Himbeere had some Johnny Cash tunes playing as he lay out in the pool.  Niiiiice.

Not quite the same as the beach but wet, cool, and good music.  You can't beat that with a stick!