Day 255 of 365 days.
Most people hate the winter, I’m now missing it. Today was the first day this spring that I had to mow the lawn. The last couple years, I haven’t had to mow my own lawn because I used to pay the guy who lived across the street (a professional gardner/landscaper) to do it for me. He moved this winter, and now I am stuck doing my own yard work. And it’s always hardest doing the first mowing of the season because the grass is that much thicker and lush. And our lawn is huge.
I think I now definitely want kids. That grass doesn’t mow itself. Except I don’t really want to wait ten years for the kids to be old enough to do the work. Anyone have a spare ten-year-old they’d like to sell me and Steph cheaply?
Yes, my underwear are showing.
Heh, I have a 10yr old, but I wouldn’t trust him to cut grass for a few more years… 🙂
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@Christy9799: really? How old do you think he’d need to be?
Hey you know I have an 11 year old boy. Wait, you don’t believe he’s real. Sigh, too bad I was gonna GIVE him to ya for free. IF only he was real ;-P ahahahaahahahahaha
@PhotoKat: well, I’m starting to believe in him more and more. Also, I need him to teach me how to skate on heelys.
Ummm yeah, I’ve seen your back yard & that isn’t the right mower for the job. That yard requires a riding mower! You must be nuts!
Are there no more roving bands of boys looking to make spending money? Where are all of the enterprising young men of today? Kids today are too spoiled! They need paper routes, and snow shovels and push mowers… ok, maybe not push mowers.
awesome shot ! i love the one arm lawnmowing!
@lrayholly: actually, I have a better mower, but its at Steph’s dad’s house. That’s my next door neighbors that I was borrowing. Hopefully, I’ll get ours back soon. And no, I haven’t seen any kids looking to make a couple extra bucks. They probably avoid us because our yard is so much bigger than everyone else’s.
@L1v32tr4v3l: actually my arm is just pulled back because I’m trying to start the mower. You just can’t see the cable in the picture.
Dude, if you have more than .25 acres, buy a riding mower. Screw that push sh*t! 🙂
@Whiffleboy: actually, I think I have less than that. Like .15 acres or something. The big problem is that part of it is a hill, and there’s things to mow around, like my pool. That said, I have considered getting a riding mower before. I never did because up until this year, I was paying a professional to mow it for me. We’ll see what happens. Except for the first mow of the season, which is hard because of the overgrowth, it isn’t TOO bad, and the exercise is actually kinda nice. But sometimes I do like being lazy.
I used to loooooooooove mowing the lawn – the grass smells so good!
…but then, my parents had a riding mower that turned on a DIME! They had to – they live on nearly 5 acres of land. I still go home and fight my sister over who gets to mow. That thing goes so fast!
@LaJoliePetite: well, you’re welcome to come over here and mow the old fashioned way any time you want.
It’s strange, we don’t have any "roving bands of boys" here looking for a few bucks either. Now, our yard is quite small…so it’s not a big deal…but we also don’t have a mower b/c we have no place to store it (our only storage room is our laundry room and it’s already full!). For the first 2 years we had a guy our age that used to come around and mow for $10, yes $10…but, like I said, it’s a small yard and he didn’t do anything extra, often including sweeping the sidewalk when he was done. Now Chris mows our lawn with a weedwacker…I’ll get a pic of him sometime soon to show ya. He did it last week for the first time this season and like you said…it’s a bitch…it took him much longer than it normally will.
Anyway…good luck with that…post a flyer around the neighborhood, I betcha you find a kid that wants some extra money!!
@pi c’s: Steph used to try to mow the lawn with our weed whacker. I kind of don’t like the uneven cut it ends up with. "Of course, you know, I’m an artist. That means I’m sensitive about my shit" or something like that.
Anyway, for now, sicne I’m not working, basically… I have time.
We take care of our lawn by letting it grow til we start getting people knocking on the door offering to mow our lawn. Then we pay the first one that makes a reasonable offer. 😉 Actually, we have a kid who mows our lawn about every other week now who we found via that method. He did our lawn for most of last year and he’s already shown up again this year so we apparently have a regular lawn guy. Sometimes he’ll take a little too long to come back and we’ll still get others knocking on the door though. 😉
@SydB42: nah, I actually like having a nice yard. I was just frusterated that day. Don’t mind me.
Heh, I understand. My husband used to mow our lawn but, long story short, we went through 4 lawn mowers in the first 2-3 years we lived here (not counting the push mower we still have which doesn’t cut well) so now we just go with our current method rather than buying yet another lawn mower (fortunately, of those 4, only one was brand new).
@SydB42: well, ours actually kept breaking but we’ve gotten it fixed. hopefully it will last a while now.
awww…you poor baby. i lucked out so far and got my roommate to do this kind of work for me. it would suck badly once he moves out :O(
@*chomchom*: well, my only roommate is my fiancee and I’d feel really bad having her mow the lawn. It’s a guy thing. Or at least a gentleman thing.
I did a tribute in honor of Founder’s Day…… hope you don’t mind….
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LMAO at the original AND the copy!
@carolinabird: I’m sure your neighbors enjoyed that more than mine did.