My new favorite outdoor toy
Being a new homeowner, I'm also new to the whole yard-work shtick. My dad, bless his heart, had been saving an older gas-powered lawn mower for me for years, just waiting for me to buy a house. He showed me several weeks back how it worked, and was pleased as punch with himself.....until we got to the part where my trick shoulder wasn't up to the job of pulling the rip cord hard or fast enough to actually start the sucker. But he assured me, it would just take some practice. Hmph.
Well, the parents are out of town for a couple weeks on a Northern Europe cruise, and the grass weeds were getting waist-high in spots. I could not get the $%&(*(@#$%& mower started, so I bought myself a new toy. I now have an electric lawn mower, and it ROCKS. Still hard work, still not something in my top ten list of "Most Fun Ways To Spend A Saturday Morning", but smooth, easy to start, runs like a dream, pollutes the environment far less, and mows perfectly well. It's my new favorite (sorry cordless weed-eater---I still love you too, but being cordless, you just don't have the same stamina as the mower). I even manages to mow both front and back yards, in less than two hours, without running over the extension cord even once. Yay, me!
Well, the parents are out of town for a couple weeks on a Northern Europe cruise, and the grass weeds were getting waist-high in spots. I could not get the $%&(*(@#$%& mower started, so I bought myself a new toy. I now have an electric lawn mower, and it ROCKS. Still hard work, still not something in my top ten list of "Most Fun Ways To Spend A Saturday Morning", but smooth, easy to start, runs like a dream, pollutes the environment far less, and mows perfectly well. It's my new favorite (sorry cordless weed-eater---I still love you too, but being cordless, you just don't have the same stamina as the mower). I even manages to mow both front and back yards, in less than two hours, without running over the extension cord even once. Yay, me!