If you live in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and you have to mow your lawn, heat is a problem. This has very general applications.

I mow my own lawn.

We knew he could be mad. It wasn't like we didn't mow the lawn when we were supposed to. But we also hoped that since he taught us all of this and raised us to be good, maybe someday the light bulb will come on.

A good wife is one who can mow the lawn in the summer and put up the storm windows in the winter.

When light and heat get to the soil (in early spring), you'll get some emergent vegetation. But don't mow everything off. Leave some cover up on field edges, ditches and stream banks.

I would choose a condo again because I don't have to be the one who mows the lawn or has to get the roof fixed,