After we ate at Dairy Queen, my Dad wanted to go to Nana’s to mow the lawn. So, we drove to her house, and her husband Harold was out working on the lawn mower. Its a riding lawn mower. My Dad got it started, and began mowing the front yard. Then he mowed the back yard. Nana got us some Rockie Road ice cream. My Dad began weed eating. He tried to cut some milkweeds. But instead, he asked me to get gloves and pull the milkweeds up. They were in the front and the back. I pulled up as many as I could. It was 100 degrees outside, Nana said. I pulled up as many milk weeds as I could. By the time I got done, I was pretty exhausted.
My Dad finished weed eating the back yard. Nana came out, and said “Harold wants to get some hamburgers”. At first, Dad and me didn’t want to eat. But Nana convinced us we should eat a hamburger. So, Harold went off to get the hamburgers. They ended up being delicious hamburgers. Mine just had ketchup and meat on it.
After that, we got back into Dad’s car and headed to the farm. At first I didn’t really care to be on the farm. I pictured pulling more milk weeds. No,; thats not what happened. On the farm, Dad has two riding lawn mowers. So, he put me on a riding lawn mower. That was so much fun. Dad made a dirt bike trail at the farm, and so I just followed that on the mower. I found a nice spot where I could build a cabin. Its along the trail. Anyways, I must have circled the trail about a half dozen times. I thought I was done.
Dad had me get on the other riding lawn mower. So, I kept riding, and enjoying the now much cooler weather. The temperature was now 82 degrees out, instead of 100 degrees. My Dad used the flashlight, to show me spider eyes. I found one, just sitting on the ground. But there were others hanging in trees. I also saw lightning bugs.
By the time the sun went down, I could see the stars. Including the Big Dipper. I went and smoked under the roof, built for the camper, and looked out over the stars. We also so far works across the lake, and lightning in several places that night. Several storms were going on, but they were going around the farm. Nevertheless, it got cloudy.
After Dad started to settle in, he showed me the coffee maker. We needed an extension cord to plug the coffee maker/toaster oven into an outlet. So, we went back outside, and into the trailer where Dad said a couple of extension cords were. Extension cord in hand, we went back to the camper, and plugged the coffee maker in so it would have power. Then, we found filters and coffee too and prepared the coffee for the coffee maker. In about five minutes, we brewed two cups of coffee.
Dad didn’t want any coffee, so I had two cups of coffee to myself. I continued to sit outside, behind the camper, in my seat I got from Goodwill, and watched the stars. Clouds kept blanketing out the stars, but in the end, they continued to beam in the night sky while i sipped coffee, and smoked. It was a very soothing experience, and I am glad my Dad took me with him. In the morning we had to pack up, and head back to Arlington because it started storming.
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