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Cliff came home from his ear doctor appointment with homework!  Actually, it's a book that tells him what to expect from cochlear implant, some facts about it, some things he will need to know, and choices; there are various types (brands?) of cochlear implants and he has to choose one; a lady told me in the comment section of a recent blog entry which one she chose.  She only had 13% hearing, and now it's 88%.  She got the Advanced Bionics.  

Old Mama Kitty disappeared for a couple of days and came back looking skinny.  She's done this many times in the past.  I have known for a long time her teeth are bad because she seems to swallow her cat food whole and often vomits it back up.  Since Blue wasn't around when I first saw her outside, I gave her a little packet of Sheba wet cat food and she devoured it.  A little later she got up on the table on the back deck where I feed both cats, acting hungry.  She took one little piece of the dry food I've always given them and stepped back.  So I got the second little cat bowl, put dry food in it, and soaked it with water; she gobbled it down!  This morning I put one bowl with dry food, one with soaked food:  Blue sniffed the soaked food and went to the dry, while Mama Kitty sniffed at the dry food but ate the wet.  I mustn't leave the soaked food out there long, though, because the flies will lay eggs in it.

I believe the flies know winter is coming.  I haven't had flies in the house all summer long, but now they almost wrestle me to get in the door before I can get in.  We seem to have two fly swatters busy every day.

Cliff bought an old finish mower, probably from the late 50's, on Facebook Marketplace.  The tires on it were no good, but Cliff had some used tires here that would work.  The mower needed some TLC, but with the grandson's help it was running by the afternoon of the day he brought it home.

Here's the before picture

Here are a bunch of parts that go with it.  There are two pairs of blades, one pair is brand new.

And here it is now; all it needs is paint.

This video was two days ago.  They've done more work on it since that to get it perfect. Cliff has another finish mower that he mows a lot of our  yard with, but it can't cut pasture grass very well.  So he's happy, and had a good project for a couple of days.

About two weeks ago, we got two inches of rain; there's been nothing since, so I've pretty much given up on the garden.  I had late green beans planted, but I'm tired of dragging a soaker hose around the garden, and put the thing up for next year.  About the only thing left that's producing is okra and tomatoes.  Those two inches of rain gave the tomatoes some new growth, and although they aren't too big, they are absolutely delicious.  We had BLT's today!  I'm thankful that rain gave us the gift of more tomatoes. 

I guess that's all for this session.