Thursday, March 27, 2008

lawn mowing, friends in town


We bought this beauty last Saturday. It doesn't match our house AT ALL but Sameer convinced me to settle on it anyway, since designer lawnmowers are so expensive these days. Sameer put this ugly orange thing to work and mowed the lawn today. If only we had taken "before" pictures....you would have been impressed with the height of our (mostly crab) grass. A week longer and we'd have had to go out there with a machete just to prepare the lawn for mowing. I was surprised that we hadn't heard from anyone in the homeowner's association about it - my guess was that they couldn't successfully make their way to the front door.

Lance and Cassie, friends from Yale, drove down last weekend to hang out with us. The main purpose for the visit was to help us buy a lawn mower. But afterwards we still had some time, so we did some other stuff too. Most significantly, we introduced them to The Office. They successfully watched Seasons 1 and 2 in a very short period of time. Thankfully, they don't seem to ever require any sleep. Anyway, we're so glad they're Office fans now too, because that is the only thing we know how to base a friendship on. I am aware that I ended that sentence with a preposition - but it just felt like the right thing to do.


Thanks for coming to see us! Your presence was very enjoyable, as were your omelettes.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for including us in your decision of buying a lawn mower. It meant so much to us; now we can figure out a schedule to come back for the fence.

Thanks again for having us in your beautiful new home that we are not at all jealous of! :) We miss you guys so much.

Love,

Cassie

Whitney said...

Perfect. We were thinking you guys would probably enjoy putting up a fence.