Last Summer Days

The leaves are now starting to wither. The streets are becoming littered with dead leaves. Although the sun is still shining, the temperature has became a lot cooler nowadays. This scenery we took yesterday is nice to see, before everything will become brownish and dull in the coming weeks once Autumn starts to properly set in.

When we were back home, we were told the August month here was quite wet. In fact it was the second wettest August month ever recorded in Holland. We definitely could see the evidence as our lawn was in a messy state with overgrown grass. Our first attempt to cut the grass resulted in our 12 year old electric mower to call it a day. So we have to buy a new one last week to get the business done. Back home one could call professional grass cutters and get it done at around 20-30 dollars. Not here, with the high labour cost, everything is better done ourselves. After all it is always good to do a bit of gardening and do things yourselves.