Today was the first day of summer break for my son and youngest daughter, so my son decided he wanted to cut our grass with the sit mower. He had done it once before and we said we would add that to his summer chores and he would get a bump in his allowance for it. Well, I ran him up to a gas station to get gas, but ended up borrowing some from a neighbor. I spilling the gas all over me, while filling the tank, which I found out has a hole in it, which spills gas on his feet during certain turns. I then got something to patch the hole. It turns out that our mower needs to be jump started, so after watching a YouTube video, we successfully jump started the thing, while I stood on the brake and did the hokie pokie - the thing is so picky. Geeze, it was hot and took so much of my time and effort and now I will smell like gasoline for about a week!
Just after I got inside and started to cool down, he texted me to meet him back in the driveway to help him gas up again because, for some reason, he can't get off of the seat or it will turn off and we would have to jump start it again. I went back inside and just after I sat down for less than 30 seconds, my daughter called my cell phone from the home phone to tell me there was a spider upstairs that she wanted me to 'get'. Are there bells that ring in their ears every time I sit down? This is going to be a L-O-N-G summer.
The grass looks good and I think we still owe him money for it, although I think I did most of the hard work, while he sat there and enjoyed the ride while listening to music. When does school start again???
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