A well maintained lawn is said to be a sign of a civilized life. As a fool with little time for civilized living, civilization or civility in general, lawn maintenance has slipped from the list of ‘important things to do’.
For most of the summer, I didn’t have a mower. Well. I didn’t have a mower that works.
Well. That’s not true either.
I have one mower. It’s a rotary, manual mower. Given how long my lawn has become, I’d have a better chance of eating the grass short myself than pushing this spinning nightmare through the hay.
I have a gas mower as well. It wasn’t working. I planned on fixing it - even going so far as taking it fully appart. I took the cylinder head off and have played with the push rods and valves and everything.
Unfortunately before I could get it back together, I found another mower on the side of the road. This mower worked instantly - first pull!
Now I have a mower in the shed that I don’t like to use, another mower that’s in pieces that I might repair and still anot…
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