One last bit.

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I am definitely out of shape. On the flip side, I am able to recover fairly well and get back to it. Some of it is just the heat. I can work miracles snow blowing, and even shoveling snow. I took breaks then, as well, but they were much shorter and less often. If I want to get out in the heat to survey hunting grounds though, I had best get used to it. It will be just as hot, I suspect, where I am going. The humidity will be far less though. Honestly, I do think humidity plays a part in the feel of heat, and a large one. I used to think that was only more myth than truth, until I visited Las Vegas in high heat. I could handle the day heat, though I really needed some way of cooling off at night. Here, it is tough to handle high heat, with the humidity, at all.

I wonder if this is going to kill me, in the long run, or if it will give me a boost. I never can really be sure which way it will go. But I did tell my landlord I would do this. And, though late, I have been trying to find a time when it was not too hot or raining to mow since Tuesday, minus sleeping through Wednesday. This is my first shot, and it is good to be nearly done. I do hope he appreciates, and the fact that I will not accept the money. I see it as a favor, one I would do for anyone, or, almost anyone, in a pinch. I am not exactly sure when he will be back. Perhaps I will do it again before then. It would be a nice parting gift.

It is so odd how, when the world closes in, a few words in a pleading tone and help arrives. Even just a bit of help lends to the task. Sometimes the help is merely words. At this point, I can use whatever I can get.

The neighbor lady would like me to stay an extra month, actually. She has suggested she would move in to fill my vacancy, so that any objections my landlord has about getting the place ready to be on the market could be set aside. I am not sure how serious she is about that, and I do not want to leave my landlord holding the bag. An extra month would be super, from my point of view, in the packing and finding an apartment department. However, if my neighbor is able to drive out with me, and help packing and unpacking, I am not sure I could turn that down to stay an extra month. And, I know if he can do it now, he cannot do it in August. But if that does not work out where he can help me either time, then an extra month is all good.

Still, I do not want my landlord thinking this is my plan. She wants me to stay, and if it works out for me, then I will. But he was pretty sure he wanted me out and has tired of my delays. I do not want to be on bad terms with him. That could complicate any new rents. Oh well, everything is up in the air again, but I will be packing as if I have to move on the first. I just cannot do otherwise.

Back to the last bit of mowing. He will not be back until the 28th, so, I may mow one more time for him. What could be worse than coming home to a lawn that needs mowing, after a pleasant cruise and visiting with friends? Well, there are a few things, but this would be rough.