Yesterday was Father's Day.  We celebrated by going to church where they had treats for the dads after the meetings. We called our dads, and the kids called Rob. ✔

We had some lawn mower drama this past weekend. When we lived in MD before we had a riding mower. The house we bought in CA had astroturf. We thought we would live there forever so we sold the mower.  Three years later we moved to Florida where we had a small yard and a teenage son. No problem.  Later we got a service which wasn't too expensive (small yard). We thought we would live in Florida forever and that we had our lawn needs figured out. A short 5 years later we are back in MD and have a huge yard, a push mower, and a 53-year-old man who doesn't want to mow it each week by hand. (Which, for the record, I don't blame him. I also don't want to mow it (or own it but that's a different story)). New mowers are pretty pricey, particularly the kind R wants. What else is expensive? Moving, buying a new house in a high interest rate market, going back to school, having kids in college, buying curtains, building a deck, buying a car.... I think the picture is clear. R decided he could buy a used mower for half the price of a new one and that would work. He looked and looked and eventually bought one from a crook. When he got it home it didn't work and isn't safe. Two days of effort later and he and Pete took it to a Mennonite mechanic down the road to have it fixed. If the fix goes well then we will still have paid less than half of what a new mower would have cost (plus one weekend of angst). 🤞

Don't be fooled by the smiling face.  This little yellow mower may be a big yellow lemon. 

Got some new graduation pictures back! 

Some of the great dads in my life that I love and am grateful for. 

 Life in quiet. School is busy. We have lots of birds and squirrels visit us. There is a fox that passes through the yard from time to time, and yesterday we had a drop in by this deer.

Colleen and I went out to lunch today, Panera. Then I went to 5 Below.