Mowing the grass

Jeff is pretty happy with his new toy, no it's not the remote controlled helicopter he has been bugging me about for the last 5 years (one day...), but his new Fiskars Stay Sharp Reel Mower. No noisy, gas powered lawn mower for him. I was quite surprised when he announced a few months ago that he wanted a reel mower, commonly referred to as the push mower. After looking around at several mowers he chose the Fiskars, finding one at Home Depot, but it didn't come with a grass catcher, and I didn't want the kids traipsing grass clippings into the house. That's when I declared 'Amazon will have one!', so we went online and ordered the mower and for an extra $30 a grass catcher.

Well today was the day it was delivered to our mailbox below the 49th parallel. So like all great wives I left work an hour early and headed down to the US to pick it up. I had the foresight to print off a couple of documents that I had been procrastinating on editing for the past few days (you'd be surprised how organized my area of the office is becoming) and away I went. Fortunately there wasn't too long a wait to cross, I was able to edit one of the documents on the way down, and after picking up the mower, overfilling my car with cheap gas (whoops) and heading back north, I was able to edit the second one waiting to get back into Canada. I had to laugh while sitting at the Peace Arch crossing, a couple flocks of Canada Geese flew over the border lanes, they must have had Nexus as they just kept flying and didn't stop to present their passports ;)

It wasn't long and I was pulling into the driveway, just after Jeff had shown up with the kids. First thing he said to me "did you get my lawn mower?" Sure did honey! So for the next hour Jeff put the mower together and proceeded in successfully mowing our almost 1/4 acre yard. It was so nice to hear the peace and quiet of our new neighbourhood. No noisy, stinky, gas powered beast to interrupt the tranquility of the tree frogs.