Lawnmowers and other yard implements

Today was a beautiful spring day. The kind of day which makes you glad to be alive and happy to live in such a beautiful place. There wasn't too much wind, it wasn't too hot, it wasn't too chilly, it didn't rain, it was just almost perfect. There haven't been many of those days this spring so we decided to take advantage of it.

Week before last we realized our lawn mower had been stolen. We don't know when it happened. The Husband had mowed so it couldn't have been much more than ten days or two weeks before we noticed it. So we began our quest for the perfect lawn mower. Now I can get into shopping. I can find a bargain when I'm motivated. I can compare features and decide which ones I must have and which ones I can live without. I can do those things. Lawn mowers do not motivate me to do those things.

I love the smell of just mowed grass. I love the look of a full lush lawn with those lines so you can tell which direction the lawn mower has gone. I cannot for the life of me, remember when I last mowed the lawn. Any lawn. Anywhere. It had to be when I lived in Norman. I bought my first lawn mower at the Ace Hardware for $99. It had a Briggs and Stratton engine (the husband tells me most of them do) was red and 19 inches and it didn't have a mulching feature (this would probably have been before we'd ever heard of mulching) and I'm not sure it had a bag. Several years ago we gave it to my secretary and her then husband because we'd been given a mulching mower with a bag by the PsychoSister. That's the mower that got stolen.

The Husband studied the ads in the newspaper. He hit all the usual places for a lawn mower; Lowe's, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, Sears. He finally decided on one at Sears. He drug the children and I to Sears to look at the possible choices. He seemed hurt when the GirlChild wandered off to look at the exercise equipment and the BoyChild and I took off in search of riding mowers/tractors. He took me by the arm and showed me the two he'd narrowed it down to and said,

"what do you think?"

I thought many things like,

"you're kidding right?"
"why are you asking me?"

But what I said was, "either one looks good to me." In the end, he decided by which one they had in stock.

He is so excited by his new lawn mower I wish we'd gotten him one sooner. He says it's easier to mow with and it doesn't wear him out as much. He's mowed twice since we got it last weekend.

We took advantage of the nice weather and planted some hostas in the front flower bed and moved some of my yard art around. I do love my yard art! Here's looking at you kid! You think I belong in the trailer park?

Peace,

M&Co.

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