Much Happiness Ensued
After a month of mucking around with our push mower and not getting the grass mowed, I finally broke down and purchased a riding lawn mower. Why not just get my push mower fixed or buy a new push mower? Both of those options would definately be cheaper. However, neither option would give me the satisfaction of sitting on my rear while getting the lawn mowed without breaking a sweat. Granted, I only mowed the front yard last night due to my needing to clear tree bits out of the driveway, but getting that front yard finished in less than a half hour — including weed-eating the portions that I could not get to with the mower — was a thing of beauty.
June 1st, 2006 at 11:00 am
Give it another three or four times, and you’ll have the yard figured out and can do the thing in top gear!
June 5th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
[...] This past weekend was just a nice quiet weekend. I got some much needed yardwork done — mainly, I trimmed all of the hedges around our house because they needed trimming quite badly. Looking back, I can honestly say that would not have been done if it were not for my new riding mower. I was happily able to mow my back yard in around a half hour without breaking a sweat so I felt like I had plenty of energy left over to do some of those every once in a while tasks like hedge trimming. [...]