Today, on the first day of spring, I mowed the grass for the first time this year. To me, mowing the grass is a time when everything going on around me is drowned out by the drone of my 3.5-HP Briggs & Stratton and I have the chance to think.

I felt puny last night, and when I woke up early this morning I felt worse. So I took a sick day. (I only have 2,400 more sick leave hours left.)
It was a day when I slept a lot, watched an old movie, did the dishes, sunned myself with Oslo and Zora (household cats that […]