Neighborly Weather

Today started off beautifully. The sun rise was as beautiful as most dreamy sunsets. Today's weather was great. The morning was brisk, but not too brisk. The kind of morning that you would want to sit on your three-season porch drinking coffee watching the sun come up.

The day progressed in its beauty as time passed.  When I came home to pick up a paper for my son's school I saw my neighbor mowing my lawn. You see my lawn looked like it could be baled and fed to a small cow for a week or so.

Let's set the stage here. My neighbor is an elderly gentleman. He is still capable of mowing his own lawn with his John Deere riding lawn mower. The point being that it was such a "neighborly" thing to do. You see I tore my ACL in February and had surgery in July, I am still in recovery and not able to mow my lawn. My wife has been mowing the lawn all summer; except for a couple of times when some friends have mowed for us (You guys rock!). She has been unable to mow the lawn recently and Ed, my neighbor, brought his mower over and mowed our whole lawn.

He said he was just being "neighborly". You know, that is the kind of American spirit that our country has forgotten. Is it possible that the Americans have forgotten how to be "neighborly" because of our drift from our religious faith? That is the question that I'll leave unanswered.

So to my neighbor, Ed you have blessed us with a mowed lawn and renewed our faith in neighborhood helpfulness. If you were to have seen the lawn prior to the mowing, you may have wondered if we were going to bale it for hay. It even smelled like hay after being mowed. Thank you Ed!