Some knitting over the past few days. Working on finishing the Opal socks and nothing else, knitting wise. Spending lots of time learning about Cascading Style Sheets and testing various implementations. It takes alot of tweaking to get things right. So, not too much going on.

Took my mom to lunch today at The Inn at Turner's Mill. I've eaten there so many times and have never had a meal that was not absolutely delicious. At lunch they make delicious quiches. Today's was spinach and mushroom in a chardonnay butter sauce. mmmm...delightful.

More grass-cutting news
(since my lawn is growing about .5" per day, I'm kind of obsessing over what the most efficient, yet pleasant method is for getting the grass cut down to a manageable length. Realistically, because of the rain, fertilizer and moderate weather, I need to cut my lawn about every 5 days. And it's not a job that I absolutely love. obsess. obsess.obsess.)

At one end of the grass-cutting spectrum is the most desirable automated lawn mower robot thing that I referred to a couple days ago. At the other end is the old-fashioned reel-mower. I bought a reel mower last weekend because I like the idea that it's much quieter and doesn't use gasoline. The few reviews that I found on Amazon and Epinions were encouraging. I used it to cut the front side of my lawn the other day. I really want to like this mower. It is quiet and is more pleasant to use than the gasoline powered Toro that I've had for the past several years. The only problem is that it seems to miss quite a few random blades of grass. I actually went over the whole lawn twice and there are still many stray blades of grass which didn't get cut. I'm not giving up though. More research (perhaps I need to adjust something?) and more real-world testing to come before giving up on this guy.