September 8, 2007: Lunch at Lou Acevedo's
	August 21-29, 2007: A Trip to Fort Lauderdale
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The 1st and 2nd of September were one of Fred's weekends to work, and we had also planned to get together with Ron and Jay on Monday, Labor Day. So I was up at Fred's house for the weekend. When I do come up, my usual schedule is to arrive Friday night about 7:30pm; I can't get there much earlier unless I leave at 4pm in the afternoon- the traffic is just too bad. Then Fred usually fixes something simple for dinner after we've done a bit of work outside. The days are starting to get shorter, so there is less time between the time I arrive and when it gets dark to do much.

On this particular weekend, while Fred was opening the greenhouses on Saturday morning, I occupied myself guiding his DR Field and Brush mower through part of the pasture. His riding mower had been out of commission for a few weeks, and the pasture had gotten so high it just had to be mowed even before we got the riding mower back. I kind of enjoy using the mower, and Fred took this picture shortly before noon just after he returned from the greenhouses. The mower is self-propelled and cuts a fairly wide swath (wider than a typical lawnmower), and it also cuts the reedy weed Scebosa that has taken over parts of the pasture.

In the early afternoon, I used the mower up by the house as well; the grass gets high very quickly over the septic field, and I had to go slowly to get it cut. It was so thick that Fred had to rake some of it up to take to the brush pile; if he didn't, then the next time we mowed it would be that much harder. So just as I am finishing mowing for a while, Fred snapped a picture of the pickup truck full of clippings.

While I was putting the mower away to take a break for lunch, Fred found some of the local wildlife in one of his flowering bushes- doing what the local wildlife usually do. The grasshoppers were not a nuisance this year; each year we wonder if this will be one of the years, like 2005, when they eat everything in sight.

I did some more mowing later in the day while Fred worked in his rose beds, and then he went to close the greenhouses while I did a stint on the exercise bike. When he returned, we got cleaned up and went to Sherman to have dinner with Chris Young.

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	September 8, 2007: Lunch at Lou Acevedo's
	August 21-29, 2007: A Trip to Fort Lauderdale
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