I ended up having to mow both lawns again today. I started with my yard at 12:30 pm, and it took me about 3 hours. That includes cleaning the mower, and push mowing the dog pen.

I didn’t have time to trim the weeds at my house, because I wanted to go over to mom’s, and mow her lawn too.

Mom's yard took a little over 3 hours, including cleaning the mower, and hand trimming around the sump pump pipes.

It was getting late, so I didn't have enough time to push mow the dog pen and other parts of the yard, or trim the weeds.

This was the second time this year, that I mowed both lawns, on the same day. We’ve been getting a lot of rain, and it will rain for several days in a row, then for a couple it doesn’t.

I won’t mow, the day after it rains, because I want the grass to be dry. So that’s why I’ve had to mow both the same day.

I still haven’t received the iPhone 16 case I ordered from Urban Armor Gear, and I hasn’t even shipped yet. I wanted to find out why, so checked their support page, on how to contact them.

The only way I could find was through a text message, so I sent them one asking about it, and here is the conversation.

Me: I would like to know why my order still hasn’t shipped. It was placed on May 1, 2026 and the order number is 127xxxx.

Shortly after I got a response back, and here's what it said.

UAG: Hello! Thank you for reaching out to us. We sincerely apologize for the delay in shipping your order.

Unfortunately, we encountered an unexpected issue during order processing, which caused this setback. We completely understand how disappointing this can be and truly regret any inconvenience it has caused.

Please rest assured that we can have your order shipped out the following business day if you'd like to proceed. However, if you'd prefer to cancel and receive a full refund instead, we completely understand. Kindly let us know how you would like to proceed, and we'll take care of it right away.

Thank you so much for your patience and understanding.

Me: I want to go ahead and proceed with the order. It has already paid for, and I definitely would like to have the case.

UAG: Thank you for confirming! We will go ahead and process your order. Once it has shipped you'll receive a follow-up email, with your tracking information included.

A refund of the shipping costs has been requested at this time, and it should show in you account in 3-5 days. Let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.

A little while later, I got another text from UAG.

UAG: Hello! We are contacting you on behalf of Urban Armor Gear's Customer Support Team. To confirm, your order has been processed, and it will be ready to ship within the next 1-2 business days! Once your order ships, we will send you a follow-up email with tracking information included.

We appreciate your patience in this matter, and if you have any additional questions or concerns, please let us know.

So it looks like there was some kind of a mixup, an it's been fixed now, and hopefully I'll get the case in a few days.

I got a better deal too, and only paid $18.87 instead of $25.86.

My brother came over to mom's house this morning, and we installed the dedicated outlet, for the sump pump. It took us a while, because we had to drill holes in all the boards first.

Then we ran wire from the breaker panel, which is at the front of the house, to the new GFCI outlet at the back of the house.

After we were done, we took mom out to dinner for Mother’s Day. We wanted to go to the Texas Roadhouse, but when we got there it was packed, and we barely found a place to park.

I went in to see how long it would be, for us to get a table, and they said at least 2 hours, maybe longer. We didn't want to wait that long, so we decided to go to Bob Evans instead.

I got the Country-Fried Steak, and mom and Dave, both got the Taste of the Farm Trio. The food was good and we had a nice time, but we really wanted to eat at Texas Roadhouse.

Dave has never been there before, and he was excited about trying it. So we are planning to go back sometime soon.

I cut down another ornamental grass today. I also did one on Monday, so with this one done, I only have one more to do.

With all the rain we’ve been getting they are growing fast. So I couldn't use a hedge trimmer, with this one and the last one.

Instead I had to cut each stick by hand, one at a time. It is more work doing it that way, and it takes a whole lot longer.

So I will be be glad when I get the last one done, and can move on to something else, because I have a lot to do.

I sprayed the mold on the basement walls at mom’s house today, with the white vinegar and water mixture. I wanted to do it before they did the waterproofing, but didn’t get it done.

I went over to spray it, a couple of days before they started on the waterproofing. But the only empty tank sprayer that my dad had there wouldn't work, so I had to buy a new one.

When they finished working on the basement, the concrete they put over the piping along the walls, was wet. So I didn’t want to spray the walls until the concrete was fully dry.

My brother is coming over Sunday, to install the dedicated outlet for the sump pump, so I wanted to do it before that. I can also move stuff back, now that the concrete is dry.

I purchased a new stack, from Weaver's Space, called Jack.

It was the deal of the week, with 33% off. The regular price is $19.95, but with the discount I only had to pay $13.37 for it.

There are a lot of stacks available, that will do general styles such as shadows, backgrounds, transparency, borders, etc. But Jack does all of that and more, with just one single stack.

It includes 300+ background, tile, and border frame images, as well as a Hover stack, that offers a ton of cool options.

With Jack you to do Hover Effects, Circle Images, Horizontal and Vertical Scrolling, and Rotation. It also allows you to add Backgrounds, Tiles, and Border Frames, and a whole lot more.

I have a lot of ideas, that I can use it for on the website.

Fifty six years ago, on May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students, at Kent State University. Four students were killed, and nine others were wounded.

The students at the university, were protesting the invasion of Cambodia, during the Vietnam War. But some of them who were hurt or killed, weren't involved in the demonstration.

Two of the four killed, had participated in the protest, and the other two were just walking to class. One of the nine wounded, was shot in the spine, and left permanently paralyzed.

The four students who were killed that fateful day, were Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder.

Today we remember them.

I was 9 years old when all this happened, and the house where I grew up, is only 5 miles away from Kent State University.

I remember the military vehicles going down Rt 59, which you can see from the house, and runs right in front of the campus.

I also remember watching all the news coverage on television, and since I was just a kid at the time, it was really scary.

It was hard to believe that all this was happening so close to us, and my brother and I were affraid to go outside and play.

I ordered a new case for my iPhone 16 yesterday. I've been getting an email every day this week, from Urban Armor Gear, about a 60% off deal the were having for 5 days.

They sent a new discount code every day, and to get the deal, you had to make a purchase at a certain time. There was also only a 6 minute window, which you could do so.

The problem was by the time I saw the email every day, it had already expired. Today was the last day they were doing it, and luckily I saw the email early enough. The time of the sale was 12:00 pm, PT, which is 3:00 pm, ET where I live.

When got the email, I had a little over 4 hours to wait. It gave me plenty of time to login to my UAG account, put the case I wanted in my shopping cart, and add today’s discount code.

After that, I just had to wait until 3:00 pm to get here. Then at exactly 3:00 pm, I clicked the button to add the discount code, and proceeded with making the purchase.

I ordered the UAG Monarch Pro Carbon Fiber case, and got a heck of a deal. The regular price for it is $42.95, but with the 60% off I saved $25.77, and only paid $17.18 for it.

To get free shipping you had to spend $49.00, but I wasn't getting anything else. So I had to pay $6.99 for shipping, plus $1.69 in sales tax, and the total price was $25.86.

The lowest I’ve ever seen it for on Amazon, was $34.99 several weeks ago, but it’s 42.95 right now. And since I'm a Prime member, the shipping would be free.

Target has it on sale for $29.95 right now, but it's online only, and not available for purchase in store. They's also a $5.99 shipping charge, so ordering it there would be $38.87.

For $25.86 including the shipping and tax, I think I got the best deal. I have been thinking about getting the case for a while now, and it's been in my Amazon shopping list for over a year. But back when I added it to the list, it was $79.95.

My Enbrel was delivered today. When I ran out a few weeks ago, I suspended it in the Medication app on my iPhone.

I restarted it today, and I’m supposed to take it weekly. I’ve always taken it on Sunday, and that’s when it’s scheduled for now. But I haven’t taken it in over 3 weeks, and I took the 4 doses before that every other week, to make it last longer.

But I want to get it back in my system as soon as I possibly can though, so I think I’m going to take the first one tonight.

Then I’ll skip the one this Sunday, since I’m taking it today, and starting next Sunday, I’ll be back to the weekly doses again.

Hopefully it works for me again, because sometimes when people are off of it too long, it won't work for them anymore.

My Rheumatologist submitted a prior authorization for my Enbrel, to my Medicare insurance today, and they approved it. I didn’t know anything about it, until I got a text from the online pharmacy, I order it from, saying it was approved.

I have to call my Rheumatologist every year, to get a new prior authorization submitted, and I was supposed to on April 1st.

I didn’t call though, because when I was first put on Medicare, I checked the price for the Enbrel. My copay for it was almost $1,000.00, and there was no way I couldn’t afford that.

I went to my Medicare account online to check, and it also said it was approved. I couldn’t believe it, they are paying $2330.17 of it, and my copay is only going to be $4.90.

But I still wanted to be sure before ordering it, and I called my insurance company, and they confirmed it too. So I went ahead and ordered it, and sure enough my copay was $4.90.

It's going to be delivered Friday, and hopefully I haven’t been off of it too long, that when I start taking it again, it works, and my arthritis goes back into remission.

I took my bicycles over to mom’s today. I have 4 so it took me two trips, and I also took the stand they were on in the garage.

I have one rack for my car, that will carry 4 bikes, but it puts them too close together, and they could easily get scratched. So I don’t like to carry more than two on it at one time.

I took the Trek bikes over on the second trip, and when I took mine off the rack, I really wanted to go for a ride. It was getting late though so I didn’t, but I’m definitely going soon.

Anyway it’s another thing moved, and that’s a relief. But I still have a lot of stuff to go, and that's going to take time.

Since being on Medicare, I haven’t been able to to take Enbrel, for my rheumatoid arthritis. My copay for it would be almost $1,000.00 a month, and there's no way I can afford that.

So the arthritis is starting to affect me quickly again, and I’m in a lot of pain. My hands are swelling, I’m getting bumps on my knuckle joints, and my right wrist is hurting really bad.

The same thing happened several years ago, when I had to stop taking Humira, due to possible effects. But thankfully my rheumatologist put me on Enbrel, when it was determined that the health issues I was having, weren’t caused by the Humira.

My arthritis went into remission again, once I started taking Enbrel. But now that I can’t afford the copay, and won’t be able to take it anymore, I don’t know what I’m going to do.

I have an appointment with my rheumatologist soon. But from what happened when I stopped taking Humira, I don’t think there’s much he can do. He can increase the amount of methotrexate I take like last time, but that didn’t help.

So without being able to take biologic DMARDs (disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs), to treat my rheumatoid arthritis, I'm going to be really messed up again.

I purchased the new Columnist 3 stack for RapidWeaver today, which was designed by Joe Workman.

Columnist 3 brings editorial typography to Stacks. You drop in content as markdown, styled text, or child stacks, and it flows it into responsive columns, that rebalance as the browser resizes, without a single breakpoint.

You can layer on drop caps, spanning headings, pull quotes, and ornamental section breaks, to turn any article into a designed editorial spread. It also includes a companion Grid stack, that arranges cards into balanced masonry layouts.

There is also a real typography toolkit underneath, that includes widow and orphan sliders, hyphenation control, text-wrap balance, and per-heading break controls.

Columnist had two prior versions. But Columnist 3 was redesigned from the ground up, with pure CSS multi-column under the hood and Zero JavaScript. Every setting is a CSS custom property you can override from your own stylesheet.

I have Columnist version 2, so I was eligible for the upgrade discount. The price for Columnist 3 is $29.95, but with the discount saved $10.00, and got it for I got it for $19.95.

I have been using Columnist 2, in The Latest News section of the website. But I am working on completely redoing it using Columnist 3, and I'm hoping that I can uploading it tomorrow.

I mowed the dog pen with the push mower today, and the places around the house, I can't do with the riding mower. I still need to trim the weeds, but I'll do that later.

After that I cut down another ornamental grass. I have three done, and three more to go. Hopefully I can get them done soon, but with all the rain it's really tough.

After my EJuice was delivered, I went over to mom’s house, to do more yard work. I mowed the dog pen with the push mower first, then around the house and the hills up front.

After that I made some fences, to put around the two smaller ornamental grasses, that I planted there last fall.

I don’t want to accidentally cut them down when I mow, and with the fencing I will be able to see where they are.

I still need to trim the weeds, but tomorrow I plan on doing some work at my house, because I have a lot of things to do.

I ended up mowing two lawns today. I started with my lawn around noon, and that took me a little over two hours, including cleaning the mower. I didn’t do the dog pen or trim the weeds, because I wanted to go over to mom’s.

When I got to mom’s house, I put the battery back in the mower, and mowed her lawn. It was the first time I’ve mowed it this year, so I had to stop several time to pick up branches.

Her yard took me a little over three hours to do, and that also included cleaning the mower. It was late when I finished and I was tired, so I have to go back and push mow the parts I can’t do with the riding mower, and also trim the weeds.

As far as I can remember, this was the first time that I mowed both lawns on the same day. I didn’t mind though because it was a beautiful day, and I enjoyed being outside.

I am moving stuff over to mom’s house. I’m working on the stuff in my office closet now, and for the past three days, Ive taken a car load over. I’m pushing myself hard, and I’d like to be moved by the end of June if possible.

I don’t want it to take all summer, because I’d like to enjoy some of it, and have time to get some things done there, after I'm moved. But I don’t have anyone to help me move, and I’m the only one doing it.

I really don’t know how long it's going to take me, I'm just hoping for the best, because I'd like to have some fun this summer too. I don't want it to take until fall, and be stuck in the house through winter again.

I added a new album, to the website's Photo Gallery page. The album has a lot of photos of my late wife Joyce, who passed away on September 25, 2023. I’ve been wanting to add an album of her photos for quite a while, and today I finally did it.

The album is called Remembering Joyce, and at the time there are 147 photos in it, from when she was a kid, all the way up to her final days. But I will add more photos to it over time, as I come across any that aren’t in it.

I ordered some EJuice from Blaze & Vape today. The last time I order any was on July 23, 2025 and I am down to my last bottle, so I will need it soon. They were formerly called ELiquid Depot, and I’ve been ordering from them for several years, but they are changing the name to Blaze & Vape.

It’s also nice because with ELiquid Depot you had to order at least $100.00 to get free shipping, but with Blaze & Vape the order only needs to be $50.00. I'm a little confused though, because my order didn't include any tax. Usually there's sales tax, plus $1.00 nicotine tax, for every Nicotine Shot you order, so I’m not sure why they didn’t charge the tax.

They already billed my debit card, so maybe it was just a glitch in their system, and they will end up adding the tax.

It really doesn't matter because ordering my EJuice from them, is a lot cheaper than buying it at a local shop.