Mowing the lawn like Grandpa used to

Gordon is putting his manual mower to work today on the front lawn. It likes to bend the big pieces, but it works pretty well. And it cuts it short, which I like. Plus, it was only $100 and I most likely will never have to mow the lawn (though it would be a good workout). I'm enjoying sitting outside on my laptop watching him mow the lawn.

Today we looked at used cars for him. We went to see a 2005 Hyundai Sonata (manual, of course) and he ended up picking a 1999 BMW 3 series. We haven't bought it yet, but did put down a $100 deposit. It's got 150K miles, but it looked like it was in really good condition. Plus it's a very pretty blue. We're going to continue to look though and see if we find something better by next week.