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The rains have visited during the past week, here in Austin. For that, we are all very grateful and are breathing a collective central Texas sigh of relief at this reprieve from summer’s heat.
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But, one resutl is that the grass is growing now. Bless the Lord, we have grass. And, bless the Lord, it’s growing properly. And, bless the Lord, we have no lawn mower here at the future Rose residence on quiet Turtleback Lane. No lawnmower. And, the grass is growing.
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So, today, I walked outside with a pair of scissors and set about snipping off the stems and heads of the tallest grass patches. And, now they’re all snipped. It seems to me that, if my goal is to become a Proverbs 31 woman, I have a long way to go and best start today with managing this household in a creative and thorough way. 
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Readers, would you like to share stories about your housekeeping or landscaping creativity? YKC!
Ah, Katie, you shouldn’t have! I was hoping the drought would mean no lawnmower purchase until next Spring, but God has answered our prayers at Mass for rain, and so I need to go buy one soon.
We don’t have a mop since we’ve always been in small apartments with hardly any hard flooring. But our current duplex has a much bigger kitchen and breakfast area. I “mop” the floor with a wet rag under one foot and dry rag under the other, doing a little scrubbing dance with my feet! I found out through internet friends that others do this too, sometimes seemingly with better results than a regular mop!