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Lawnmowing
May. 13th, 2006 09:20 pmWe just got our first lawnmower on Sunday, and we (Jen mostly) took our first crack at the lawn with it today. We got a manual pushmower because a) it was cheap (<$100), b) it's theoretically better exercise, and c) it doesn't require the purchase of gasoline. An electric mower would have been our other choice, and I might have went in that direction myself, but Jen insisted on point b, which is why she did most of the mowing. (I got a lot of flack from my family when I told them that part, how lazy I was to make Jen mow the lawn and whatnot. yeah yeah.)
It actually seemed to work pretty well. It had problems with the occasional really tall weed, which would spring back up after the mower went over it; I went around with a pair of shears to get those. When I took my turn, I found it wasn't particularly difficult to push, maybe not any harder than a heavy non-self-propelled gas mower. Occasionally it got stuck on a tree branch, and you'd have to back the mower up and turn the blades a few times with your foot to get the thing going again. It might not be as neat as a powered mower, but I just want to keep it short enough to avoid a fine from the city and a scolding from the landlord.
I don't normally have much interaction with our lawn--it's there, I occasionally walk on it to get to the door--so it takes mowing to make me realize just how much yard space we have. OK, it's not HUGE, but it's pretty darn respectable. I'm just not sure what to do on it or with it, other than mow it. :)
If any of our neighbors pay the least bit of attention to us, I wonder what they think: no car, a bicycle, and now a push mower. We're practically Amish in Autophile Dallas.
It actually seemed to work pretty well. It had problems with the occasional really tall weed, which would spring back up after the mower went over it; I went around with a pair of shears to get those. When I took my turn, I found it wasn't particularly difficult to push, maybe not any harder than a heavy non-self-propelled gas mower. Occasionally it got stuck on a tree branch, and you'd have to back the mower up and turn the blades a few times with your foot to get the thing going again. It might not be as neat as a powered mower, but I just want to keep it short enough to avoid a fine from the city and a scolding from the landlord.
I don't normally have much interaction with our lawn--it's there, I occasionally walk on it to get to the door--so it takes mowing to make me realize just how much yard space we have. OK, it's not HUGE, but it's pretty darn respectable. I'm just not sure what to do on it or with it, other than mow it. :)
If any of our neighbors pay the least bit of attention to us, I wonder what they think: no car, a bicycle, and now a push mower. We're practically Amish in Autophile Dallas.
