After a long period of time of not mowing our lawn, the entire winter to be exact, we finally decided 'well.. our lawn is totally out of control and it was time for a wack'. Instead of paying someone to come mow our massive lawn we decided to mow it ourselves to save money. With the acreage we have a standard push mower just wouldn't do, we definitely needed a riding lawn mower. So.. we went down to Lowe's to check out their inventory since we knew they were having a nice sell on all things yard. Pete wanted the heavy duty massive JohnDeere mower, I wanted the cheaper orange one over to the side that no one was looking at, hey perhaps it was lonely. Alas, we came to a compromise and bought the middle of the road but still heavy duty JohnDeere mower capable of mowing our yard/field.
I have to admit I woke up this morning thinking, we're getting a mower, we're getting a mower, totally excited, you would have thought we were getting something more impressive. I suppose I get excited pretty easily. As promised the Lowe's delivery guy was right on time w/the mower in our yard at 1:00pm sharp. Plenty of time to mow our grass under the looming black clouds that were crawling toward us w/every wind. Interesting side story is that the guy who dropped off our mower turned out to be the lady who Pete bought our house from, her nephew, small town I swear. He said the house looked completely different and he liked what we've done w/the yard. He said his aunt died not too long ago, he said it was her time, she was really old. Pete and I like to think that she would be proud of what we've done w/her little white house. He said her grass was never as long as it is today, we chuckled and said 'we'll fix that'. I asked for my JohnDeere trucker hat, the delivery man laughed, got in his truck and drove away. I actually wasn't joking, I wanted my bright green JohnDeere hat..hmmmmm
I started off mowing and quickly got scared as our yard is very steep and well this was my first lawn mowing experience in my life. I have 2 brothers remember. Not that i'm a girly girl, ok well I suppose I am at times, or definitely when it suits me, the girl card comes out flying. I actually mostly felt as if the mower was going to fall on top of me at any second and would swallow me up like that poor kid Randy from middle school.. ick!!! I still have horrid memories of that story (I have a really really good imagination).. ugh!! Pete showed me what to do and what not to do and I was off. I got some of it mowed down. But man, that grass was really long. I mowed and mowed, well for a little bit at least, then the bugs, the heat and well the fact that i'm SURE there is tons to do inside the house, in the nice cool house :) So I got off told Pete i'd be back to do more in the afternoon when it cooled down.
Pete of course picked up where I left off. I made lunch for us and yes, I did do tons of stuff inside that needed to be done while Pete mowed and mowed and mowed. In the rain, in the sun, in the thunder (I didn't like the thunder... remember my imagination, every time the mower would stop i'd think..did lightening strike Pete..nahhhh i'd smell it), Baily following like the loyal pup she is, Pete mowed.....
A double rainbow...funny the rainbows both appeared to end in the development, is that where the pot of gold is??? figures, urrrrrrr
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