Andy survived the fall semester with a B in each of his two classes. I consider that quite a feat for the schedule that he was dealing with for work, both classes, and research. He ended up using a ton of his vacation trying to keep up with the schedule so now he's trying to make up some of that time. He's already made up about 40 hours worth of time. Since we have a few trips and events planned throughout the rest of the year and of course there will be more UTA classes, he wants to continue to build his vacation time back up this summer. He's also taking Gasdynamics as an independent study class for the duration of the summer. So, although these two major time commitments mean that he still doesn't have much free time, he gets to sleep at home each night, and it's an improvement on the spring semester. All of his hard work last and this semester means that he has cut a year off from his degree plan...good job, good job!
He did have a weekend where he had to tackle the jungle that was our backyard. It wasn't a big deal that he didn't mow during the winter, but since he didn't have time to mow during the spring, the weeds continued to grow as we watered them. The picture below gives you the idea that the weeds were above his knees throughout the whole yard.
But some of the weeds were drastically larger. One of the largest was near the back door and close to my height, maybe a little taller. I had the camera perfectly horizontal when I took this picture of it.
In some places, the undergrowth of weeds was so thick that there wasn't much live grass. Andy did a great job weed eating everything down so that he was actually able to use the lawn mower.
