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Like many of you when I was old enough to push the mower… I was allowed to push the mower. How exciting that time was. How short lived the excitement was. Every week I had to push that mower around our yard. My Dad was a bagger. We bagged the clippings. Not because he was against being ecologically minded. This was in the seventies and mulching mowers hadn’t hit the retail market yet.
I learned in my early teens that the lawn mower was the bane of my existence. I learned how to manipulate the mower so it wouldn’t start. I could only do this when my Dad wasn’t home as he wouldn’t fall for the tricks. He was too mechanically minded to let me get by with not working.
The days of fooling my Mother were ended by my Dad. That was the day my world changed. My Dad was a hardware man. He spent most of his adult life as a manager in a hardware store. Occasionally he would bring home great pieces of hardware technology. The hardware tool that changed my life is pictured below.
This is a new model. Not the model my Dad brought home. This lawn mower is electric. It plugs into the wall. It starts every time with the flick of a switch. No more fooling Mom. No more skipping mowing days. Technology changed my life… and not for the better. Mowing the cord was not an option… too dangerous.
So… mow I did… mow everyweek… always mowing… today… I don’t care much for mowing… I dream of…
A zero turn radius mower. Riding mower. Sit and work… ahh the good life.
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Ya know, the day I stopped mowing was the day Pooky walked out into our backyard on Whitley Rd. in Watauga and I was mowing in random circles… That method works too. You mow randomly. People who are structured don’t appreciate it. You are not asked to mow again! That also works with house cleaning… Forget what you are doing and they will do it for you!
Greg–I’m a new reader to your blog. Salyards sent me the TEPSA links from last year and I got sucked in! Six years ago when we bought our house, my husband was thrilled about mowing our third of an acre (all uphill–front yard and back yard). It was good therapy for the end of a hard day’s work. Now, about 600 mows later…he, too, dreams of a riding lawn mower. We talk about it all the time! I think it will be a next summer purchase…so feel free to come borrow it. :c)
I tried to fix my blog address (I had a typo when I entered it the last time)…sorry to leave two comments!
Hey, did I tell you about the time I took Russell’s new zero turn riding mower for a spin? I ended up mowing the whole front yard while he and Alexandra sat on the front porch and watched. For weeks I listened to all his buddies grunt and moan over how great is was, and finally, after much persuasion, I decided to try it out. I even put on his big ol’ 80’s style radio headphones. All I can say is . . . I “get it” now! Feel free to stop by anytime to take it for a ride.