Scraping Paint and Mowing

I updated my Blogger profile a couple days ago, adding, as one of my interests, scraping paint. It's really not an interest but rather something I'm currently engaged in, as I've devoted much free time to scraping paint off my garage door. I have a couple other outside paint-scraping projects that also need my attention, and when it's too cold to paint outside I'll move indoors to scrape even more paint.

But all this is besides the point. There is actually someone else in the Blogger world who lists "scraping paint" as one of their interests. Here I thought I was being clever and amusing listing it as an interest, but I'm sadly just a follower...kinda like my blog title.

Yesterday was quite noteworthy because I mowed my entire lawn for the first time in at least six weeks. It may have been seven weeks, but I lost track at five. My neck of the woods has gone through a severe drought this summer, so there hasn't been much to mow. I did mow some shady and water-retaining areas a couple weeks ago, but the full-sun front lawn hasn't been touched in ages. Well, that's exactly not quite true. I did whack the weeds in it a couple of times.

The whole situation is quite sad because my shiny new lawnmower had been gathering dust and spiders. But really, I shouldn't complain. The poor farmers in my county will be suffering this season because crop yields are projected to be down by 50% due to the lack of rain. The only positive is that my biceps have turned from blobs to being a bit defined as the result of hauling buckets of water to my garden. And all that watering has paid off, as I ate a yummy ear of corn without having to cook it.

A local newscast now says the area is in a moderate drought. That's interesting, because in the past 2.5 weeks it's only rained 1.3 inches where I live. It seems like a piddly amount to make a difference in the drought scale, but the grass has gotten greener.