Last night, we had one of our first decent spring evenings for a while. The grass was getting too long, so I got the lawn mower out for the first time this year, set in the battery (it's an electric mower; no gas fumes, no temperamental engine) and went to work.
Things went OK until the back yard, where my wife's clothesline is set up. That thing doesn't like me for some reason. It's always trying to take a poke at me. So anyway, I was trying to negotiate the mower under the poles and crossbars without cracking my head, and for the most part did well--until POW, I raised my head too soon and cracked my noggin, just below the hair line, on the right front. No blood, no major damage, but I got a nice bump for my troubles. Anyway the lawn looks a lot better.
I spent a lot of this morning tracking down some photos (JPG files) for the family of one of the local kids who is graduating from high school this year. I took a number of football and wrestling photos of him over the years, and they wanted some of those action shots for his graduation party. Most of them I found--the one I couldn't find was before we went digital at the paper. Fortunately, I keep archives of all my photo files.
Sometimes, the kids who work on high school yearbooks ask me for some photos they can use, so I make a CD of what I've got--as I tell them, "the good, the bad and the ugly."
The weather forecast said it would be cloudy but about 60F today. Well, it's cloudy, alright, but only about 50F or so (+10C). I've got to head out to cover a high school track meet this afternoon, about 50 miles away. A couple other errands to do, too. Maybe visit my mom, who turns 83 this month, but maybe not--I think we'll be visiting her over the weekend, anyway.
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