I got the grass mowed...

And no thanks to a shiny new riding mower like my dad or from the boy, who has been AWOL since Monday night. I don't think he is in jail or hurt because he did call on Friday to say he would be home in a couple days, but I can't say for certain.

Finally, for the first time this year, it is nice enough to take full advantage of my wireless internet connection and sit and relax in my backyard with my laptop, a cigar and a beer. This is what makes the wireless connection really worth its puny expense. I've gotten all the yard mowed so the neighbors won't complain, the tools are put away, and now, its beer time!

Its been a busy weekend and I need at least 2 more days before going back to work and maybe I'll be caught up with most of my chores. I fixed one water line break on the secondary system on Friday only to discover a bigger break behind the shed. That one will have to wait until next weekend. I still have an outside faucet on the front of the house that needs replaced, the carport needs a good cleaning and I guess I'm going to have to do a lot of the yard waste hauling and the shed cleanup by myself, since the boy seems unwilling to stick around to do any of it.

I did go to the gunshow on Saturday with Loc and stocked up on ammo as promised. I even became a paid up memeber of the evil National Rifle Association while I was there! I aslo got the distinct pleasure of making the aquaintance of another local blogger and gun enthusiast, Bob G of Near the Salty City. We had a very nice visit while we walked around checking things out and we all had lunch at the local Hooters before heading home.

[Interesting side note-] There's a robin in my pine tree just 20 feet from me, seemingly testing each of the branch crooks as a possible site for a new nest. Both the cats are watching ever so intently but the nester-to-be seems high enough to be unconcerened.

The rest of the weekend has been spent grinding on a group paper for my Business Policy class, that thankfully ends next Friday. We even as a group got together for 3 hours this afternoon to work on this blasted paper. The subject is General Motors and there is no shortage of information but getting it pulled together into a comprehensive paper is really taking some work. And its not done yet...

But the paper will get done even if I have to burn some leave hours to make it so, then there's a presentation to create, a final exam to study for in my Logistics class and then the term will be over. After that, a month's respite! Believe me, I, and all my classmates are more than ready for the break!

UPDATE: The robin seems to have picked a crook to settle in and has had a good cleanup of the leaves that were in the prime selected spot. It has flown off for now. I guess I'll keep a watch to see if a nest appears in that spot over the next few days. Still no hummingbirds at the feeder that has now been up for a week. I wonder what happened to that first one I heard.