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Based upon the number of leaves in my yard, fall is here. Last year we took out some 100 bags of leaves from our yard. That was a back breaker. This year I thought to try something different (other than paying someone else to do it). What we did was I bought a bag for our lawnmower, to mow over the grass and leaves. Saturday morning I finished assembling the bag and put it on our lawn mower, fired her up and went off to mow the lawn/collect the leaves. It worked great, it turned the leaves into little pieces of mulch and into the bag they went. The problem was that every line and a half of grass I cut, I had to empty the bag. Usually it takes me about 45 minutes to mow the lawn, this time it took about 2 hours. That is still much faster than had I tried to rake the leaves without the help of my mower.

The plan was for me to finish up the yard work and then try and get in 9 holes at the Lancaster Golf Center. My wife works on Saturdays, so if I can play on Saturday it does not cut into out limited quality time. Unfortunately the second part of that plan was not meant to be. As I was finishing up the lawn/leaves it began to rain. Oh well, at least Dvorit will be happy when she gets home and sees the lawn. What would have usually taken about 15-20 bags only took 4 bags, so the mower did the trick.

Come Sunday morning, the rain stopped so I went with my wife to the driving range. Got a bucket of 60 golf balls and began practicing. While I was feeling hot due to the exercise my wife felt like she was freezing, so I gave her the pull-over I was wearing. My driving is improving now. Last time I was at the driving range I think I missed about as many swings as I hit. This time I only missed a few. Most of the balls went between 100-200 yards. That was also a problem I was having before – I couldn’t seem to get the ait and distance at the beginning. A decent number of the balls actually went straight and not as many went off to the right (another problem I seem to have).

Al is good in the world – did my yard work and got in some golf, even if only the driving range – all on the same weekend.

Based upon the number of leaves in my yard, fall is here. Last year we took out some 100 bags of leaves from our yard. That was a back breaker. This year I thought to try something different (other than paying someone else to do it). What we did was I bought a bag for our lawnmower, to mow over the grass and leaves. Saturday morning I finished assembling the bag and put it on our lawn mower, fired her up and went off to mow the lawn/collect the leaves. It worked great, it turned the leaves into little pieces of mulch and into the bag they went. The problem was that every line and a half of grass I cut, I had to empty the bag. Usually it takes me about 45 minutes to mow the lawn, this time it took about 2 hours. That is still much faster than had I tried to rake the leaves without the help of my mower.

The plan was for me to finish up the yard work and then try and get in 9 holes at the Lancaster Golf Center. My wife works on Saturdays, so if I can play on Saturday it does not cut into out limited quality time. Unfortunately the second part of that plan was not meant to be. As I was finishing up the lawn/leaves it began to rain. Oh well, at least Dvorit will be happy when she gets home and sees the lawn. What would have usually taken about 15-20 bags only took 4 bags, so the mower did the trick.

Come Sunday morning, the rain stopped so I went with my wife to the driving range. Got a bucket of 60 golf balls and began practicing. While I was feeling hot due to the exercise my wife felt like she was freezing, so I gave her the pull-over I was wearing. My driving is improving now. Last time I was at the driving range I think I missed about as many swings as I hit. This time I only missed a few. Most of the balls went between 100-200 yards. That was also a problem I was having before – I couldn’t seem to get the ait and distance at the beginning. A decent number of the balls actually went straight and not as many went off to the right (another problem I seem to have).

Al is good in the world – did my yard work and got in some golf, even if only the driving range – all on the same weekend.