Lawn Mowing, and a little change...

I love mowing the lawn. I have ever since I started. It is always nice to look and see that you mowed that tall grass down to a reasonable height. It is nice alone time- the mower blocks out other noises, and I usually listen to music (and sometimes sing along...). Mowers are pretty cool too, as they help you mow the lawn.

I love doing all of this.

 Our new lawn mower is silent, so since my family (or the family members that are not away at college...) went out with me to clear some weeds, or just sit there and watch and laugh, it can also be nice family time.

Unless, of course, you have a crappy mower... and then the yard doesn't look nice, and you can't do anything about it, unless you rake in different directions, and then all the laying-down blasted grass that is laying down pops up, and you mow over it until it lays back down again, or you are some how able to cut it with the lawn mower (which isn't automatic-it's like an old-fashioned lawn mower, only upgraded. Also, the "bag", so called, doesn't help anything, it just holds the tiny bit of grass that you some how cut on the blade, so that the blade tosses it in front of you- so you also have to rake the whole terrible-looking yard...). Your hands hurt from gripping the handle (which happens on any hand lawn mower, but I thought I'd just add that to the list...). Your arms hurt from dragging it across the lawn-excuse me, Pushing it across the lawn; using your whole body weight to get it over the blasted stubborn grass, and then trying to find a way to mow properly beneath the rose bush, so you have to Pick it Up, and turn it around. And then your legs hurt, again from pushing the thing across the now bad-looking yard, as the grass will Still not stand up, no matter what different directions you push it from. Your back hurts too, but that's just a given. And then, you feel bad because, what you thought would be a good time mowing, and then being hot and tired, but proud that you did all that, you look out at the yard and... All the grass that laid down as you thrust the mower over it is springing up, and looking like a bad hair-cut-to say the LEAST!(my mom says that I should point out that the silly lawn mower is green. "Literally and politically". Green is my favorite color.)

Then it all stinks. Your family being the best part, as they force you to laugh about it.

 I still like to mow the lawn. Just not with this mower...



 So last weekend we dropped my brother off at college, and met my brothers really cool future in-laws. Now it feels like just a really really long girls week. But, I love my brothers, I do, but we all must grow up, and put aside old grievances, if my brothers hadn't left to go grow up, then I wouldn't have this opportunity to grow up. Furthermore, I don't think I would have finally seen my sister for who she is. A great and beautiful young woman. For the past few years, I some how was under the impression that she was an evil older sister trying to control my life. Like all older sisters, she is like a mother hen to me. I found it extremely annoying, and I treated her with resentment, and I worked not to do what she had asked me-some how turning it into a bossy order. I was resolved not to satisfy her. The problem was she didn't care, and she was ignorant of my strange rebellion (which I blame on Puberty, and Satan).

 But this has changed. There will still be arguments, and annoyance, but I will not be trying to get revenge all the time for nothing.

 I put up the books on the book shelf last night, so I keep glancing at my handy-work. I Love organizing!

 I started a manuscript that I have had under my cap for about a year or so, and I can't seem to put it down-I stayed up until four in the morning writing. I have used up half of a notebook; this has never happened in this short amount of time.

 I am really excited.

 Tomorrow we are going to start church hunting. I am Really excited about that as well. Church is our main source of friends, so I'm definitely looking forward to it. Not to mention how thirsty I have been of waking up early, and going to have fellowship.

 Well, I better go. Hope you like my little adventure with the lawn mower.

 CCO

 P. S. one of the neighbors have a tree in their front yard. The tree has an owl. And there are crickets. I am happy :)

Change; It's odd, it's funny, it's exciting!

Dear readers,
 Me and my dear family are moving again. :) I know, I know, we just moved to this cool small town, with the people who are rather, cold. But the city isn't :)
 I do like this small town, especially the swings at the park, and the birds, and the lovely crickets, and ever so much the owls, but I'm thinking that the city is where we should be-and besides, aren't there owls in the city? granted, you can't hear them very well, but they're still there. It kinda makes them more magical, ya know?
 It has some cool stuff. Granted, the crime rate isn't as cool, and they're swings probably aren't as good, but still, there's the zoo, there's more than one park, and so on. Plus, there's GRASS; and not only that but it's GREEN! And a lush green at that :D I don't know how much of this I can take!

 Moving isn't the only change going on around here; next month my older brother is going off to college. My oldest brother is going to get married sometime. And my sister will graduate next year. Like I said above, Change is odd, funny, and exciting! Or at least that's how I feel about it :) which is better than feeling all depressed and stuff.

 One of my favorite songs right now is a song by Relient K, I don't know what it's called but it goes, "If you close your eyes and listen close / you can hear the chapter close ... and you like the way the story goes / 'cause the Sun still burns the shadows out / and there's nothing to complain about now." Or something like that, but I really like. It's almost exactly how I feel about it all.

 Anyway, I better go. My sister wants to get on :)

CC and Owls...

My somewhat first day... :)

So today there's this thing going on in town. There's a Parade and a Carnival (which I missed both, sadly), and everyone's having a yard sale, and tonight there's a Pot Luck and "Live Music" :) It's the first day that I've seen that this place is actually a town; and, I'm really excited.  I have never lived in a small town before, so this is kind of new to me, and all I know is what everyone writes in books and stuff, so don't judge me :) My idea of small towns is that they're full of sweet "quiet" people and I've always thought they were cool, so I'm excited that I now live in one :)

 The thing I found on my first day here, that I loved instantly, was the owls. If I just sit there for a minute I'll hear them right behind the birds and the crickets. Owls are nocturnal, but for some reason I can hear them in the middle of the day-all day in fact. Owls are so cool. They're in mysteries, when the hero or whoever is aproaching the dark creepy mansion to investigate and they're startled by the hoot of an owl. (Which, by the way, is a silly name for owl calls, in my opinion.) Owls are also considered to be wise, or to represent wisdom, whichever. So naturally, they're pretty amazing :)

Crickets are also pretty cool, but mainly just because they sound so cool. At night when its quiet they're all I can hear; or, when someone says something and everyone is frozen quit, I can't help but crack up because its just so classic :)

 Well anyway, I better go make some brownies for the dinner thing.
 CCO