This afternoon was sunny and warm. I got out and mowed the grass in the front yard and trimmed around all the edges so it was nice and neat just the way all the other yards in the neighborhood are. I probably should have got out the electric hedge clippers and trimmed the privet hedges on both sides of the yard, but it’s too late in the day now.

Most of the yard signs have been taken down now. In another week I probably will have forgotten which were Bush yards and which were Kerry yards. Without the signs there is nothing to give it away.

As I read in a post today at Tender Dirt, “We are far better off planted in our own lives.” I feel so much better when I turn off the news and go outside to work in my own little garden.