One of my least favorite jobs
is to rake grass. Hell, raking of any kind just torques me off. So I’m very careful when I can be to cut grass early and often; it’s much easier to drive the tractor around several times a week than it is to rake.
But on vacation, I didn’t have the ability. And none of my neighbors have much in the way of equipment. So I mowed yesterday, and the clumps of dead grass took five heaping wheelbarrows to get back to the garden.
In somewhat related news, Barber Joe has been forbidden from mowing his lawn. Seems he was getting ready to mow, and the lever didn’t start the blades. So he turns off the mower and gets down on the ground to look underneath the frame; sure enough, a cotter pin has sheared. So he’s trying to get it out to replace it and the “WHOLE GODDANED NEIGHBORHOOD” (His words) come running over yelling “JOE!!! JOE!!!!” thinking he’s had a grabber and fallen off the mower.
His wife (Again, Joe’s words) says “Goddammit Joe! No more goddamned lawn! You’re gonna sell that goddamned mower and I’m gonna get someone to mow the goddamned lawn before you give ME a goddamned heart attack”
Joe, like me, fails to see the issue. He has(Had) a riding mower so it wasn’t like he was pushing an old reel.
Still. Joe says one of his customers runs a lawn service, and he comes and mows Joe’s lawn for $25 a week. So Joe put me in touch with Jesus. That’s HaySoos, not the other one- and I’m gonna call him and ask if he’ll mow my backyard. And see if he runs screaming away like everyone else. If he does I’m gonna see if I can find an old bent ash snath and scythe and mow like the old man did. Have to be safer than pushing a damned mower. Plus grim reaper.
That was my first ‘job’ mowing lawns at age 12… 2.50 a lawn… IF I was lucky I ‘might’ get a .50 tip…
You’ll fall down the hill and cut yerself with the scythe.
THat is one steep hill.
I still think you need the hovercraft lawnmower.
lol. The antigravity hovercraft mower.
The scythe, if I fell down the hill with it, would at least do the job right.
If I can get it cut this year I will be tickled, even if it’s just one time.
Speaking of which, I need you to send me the contact info for your tree guy.
Now all you need is a black cape with a hood…Maybe a head stone or two for effect….I’ve used a scythe to cut grass and if it is tall. works pretty good.
Seems like it would be less work to dig a couple of containment trenches, fire up the flamethrower and burn it to the ground.
We’ve got an (I think) Enrique doing the yardwork at the old house while we wait for it to sell. I say $80 bucks a month is cheap compared to me having to load the lawnmower/gas/trimmer/etc, drive across town, and burning half my weekend every week over there keeping it from turning into a jungle of weeds.
If some crazy Mexican won’t cut that hill, I don’t know who will, and I’d suggest at that point that you let it go wild and just fuggedaboudit :)
yeah, Nate, that’s what’s been happening the last two years.
Randy, if I could burn here I’d already have done it. Pascal suggested I should make it look like an American Flag, and dare them to stop me.
I always did kinda like raking. A lot less effort, and I could seen an immediate improvement.
One thing that I absolutely detest is painting. I will prep, sand, tape, whatever, all day long. Just try not to put a paintbrush in my hand.