2017 Jun 19 - Mowing the grass - Here comes the rain

I'd been to visit Dad at the farmhouse.  Sometimes I do that on weekend afternoons.  I'd told Dad I needed to get home early enough to mow..  I left and I drive the 30 minutes home and I get on the last few miles of the trip and there above my neighborhood (and the river to the west) is dark black clouds.  Not stormy lightning, but obviously "Its going to rain soon clouds".

I saw my neighbor after parking the car.  I told him looks like I missed the opportunity to mow.  He said "You still have time".  Probably get it done.  I begged him to let me know if he heard thunder as I can't hear that over the mower motor.  He promised he would.

I ran inside and changed clothes and then outside to mow.  Chaos is out there with me and I run as fast as I can to mow the grass.  I finish the back yard and get to the gate.  I open the gate, finesse keeping Chaos inside the back gate, and go out into the front yard.  Steven had already mowed the side lot near his side lot.  Here comes the rain.  I mow the front yard sans the ditch bank (Steven had mowed that too) in the rain.  I'm pretty much soaked by the time I finish.  I get back to the back yard and park the lawn power under the lean-to.   Steve is back outside on his deck.  He says "You almost made it".  I say "Yeah, but it's done".

I'm in so much of a hurry to finish the lawn in the rain, that before I had ignored Chaos running back and forth in the yard as he doesn't like rain.  He could have gotten under the lean-to but instead he just ran the fence.  I apologize to him and we run inside the house.  I go to take a shower.  He rubs himself all over the sofa to get dry.  SIGH.

I'll be glad when I can get my debts paid off so I can get someone to mow my lawn.  I'll be glad to get this house sold so I have no lawn to really worry about.  We have someone mow at the farmhouse.