Mowing Can Almost Be Fun – I Said “Almost”!!!!
filed in Misc on Sep.30, 2008
Don’t try to prove that you have brawn
Use self-propelled to mow your lawn
A push on primer, a pull on cord
I guarantee you won’t be bored
The work will be done in no time flat
And you’ll be smiling like the Cheshire cat
More time to play when the job is done
Who says mowing can’t be fun?
Do as I say and you’ll be glad
‘Cause mowing the lawn isn’t a fad
Your bod will sing a happy refrain
For now it can mow and feel no pain!
Yeah, I’m nuts. Now that we’ve got THAT out of the way…….The grass is getting high again and a-mowing I must go. Since the middle of the summer I’ve been handling the lawnmowing chores while Don has been suffering through his neck pain. We have a TORO self-propelled lawn mower, so mowing our flat lawn really isn’t difficult for me. The hardest part of the process is emptying the bag of clippings. The bag is relatively small and must be emptied often, but if it were any larger the weight of the clippings might force me to empty it at the same point anyway. So I make my umpteen trips to our large garbage cans and dump away. Love me our big garbage cans on wheels! Keeps me from having to put the clippings into garbage bags—now that’s not fun.
Dee Doo doesn’t do weedeaters, though. In my last encounter with one of those things I hit my bare shin with the spinning cord and was left with a deep laceration that I’ll never forget! So there has been no trimming around fences, shrubs, trees, sidewalks, driveways, or curbs going on here since the middle of the summer and it’s looking a little shaggy. Guess I need to rent a goat to chew around the edges.
October 22nd, 2008 on 12:41 pm
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