Monday, May 05, 2008

When we got home from work/daycare on Friday our neighbor had a mini-roadroller parked at his house. Edward was intrigued. This neighbor has beautiful landscaping and a lawn worthy of a golf course. He also works for a local paving company so has access to various equipment for projects to keep it looking this way. This weekend his plan was to roll the lawn to flatten it out. As prime candidate for most generous neighbor of the year, he offered to do ours as well, but the many dips and humps in our lawn are really the least of its problems, so we politely declined. When he started working on it late Sunday afternoon (he had to wait for it to dry out as much as possible from recent rains) John and I were inside getting ready for an evening event to benefit the public library. Grandma and Grandpa, who were here to babysit for the evening, were outside with Edward. I sent John out with the camera so he was there to capture this amazing moment in the life of a young boy: