Just remembered one of my favourite poems, If, by Rudyard Kipling. http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm

It begins with:
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

For example, you’re smart and well-organized. Those are natural talents you have, and it would be wrong to say, “No, I’m stupid and disorganized.” But on the other hand, you’ve also received the immeasurable blessing of being born in a time and place where you were properly educated and where you have access to books about organization (to help you view a range of organizational techniques) and so on.

The natural outgrowth of humility is generosity. It’s almost automatic that once you realize how much you’ve been given (in the above example, the opportunity for an education) that you realize how that same gift could bless others, and then you begin reaching out in order to help others achieve the same (by, say, storytelling in order to give others the urge to read more.)

I like the concept of “irregulars.” I hadn’t thought about them that way, but lately I’ve been noticing more of those around here and doing them when I do other projects. They’re not covered in the Motivated Moms calendar because they’re particular to this house, but I guess they still need to be done from time to time.

Five sales so far, all in the US (my little blow against “Buy American” policies), and three serious inquiries from overseas. I’ve been doing my homework re customs and shipping, and will be listing “worldwide” tomorrow or the next day.

I’m convinced that the ready availability of the manual is responsible for most of the sales. It may also be deterring some potential buyers who aren’t comfortable with doing this kind of surgery on their radios — and that’s good, because we don’t need unhappy customers.

We had no thatch to begin with! The brown stuff it dug up was roots, not thatch.

I didn’t want to reseed the lawn.

P.S I dethatched my own lawn a few years ago and got the same thing, it is hard on the lawn but after I seeded it, it worked out. Judging by the length of your grass under the picnic table it hadn’t been cut in a long time, you would have alot of green grass come up as a dethatcher (at least the one I rented for an arm and a leg) is basically like a vertical lawn mower, so it basically cut your lawn and then kicked up all the thatch. As for not moving the table and pool, thats just lazy. How does your lawn look now after you put the seed down and did you find their seed grew for you?

No more pokemon shows for the kids, it’s getting to you.