Yard Work
Many people were talking about the huge, fat snowflakes that fell yesterday morning. It was a shock to our systems! But, none of the snowflakes stayed around to tell a tale of winter. They melted immediately on hitting the ground.
This morning it was still unseasonably cold, but apparently it didn't really freeze overnight. After Aquarobics today, I got out the power mower and after getting it to start, mowed the lawn. I used the power mower because with all the rain we'd had last week, the grass had been growing a LOT! Later in the day I trimmed some of the edges where the mower couldn't do the job because I don't know how to angle it properly so that it wouldn't harm the blade.
I got this much needed chore taken care of, but I had to wear a sweat shirt and a jacket over it. It was cold today! It's 43 degrees right now! I'm so glad that I got my lawn mowed today, but I didn't have the oomph to mow the lawn next door where the house is vacant. I was going to but after two passes of the mower, when the mower stalled out, I quite mowing and put the mower away. It was enough strenuous outdoor work for one day.
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at 5/23/2006 5:12:11 AM- Sally, I am noticing as the grass has been growing so fast, that there are a lot of weeds in my lawn, but when I mow the grass, the weeds don't show up as much. I hope your lawn will shape up for you.
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It's always a good feeling to get that lawn mowed and shaped up. I hope I haven't made a bad move by having a pest/fertilizer/termite company spray mine. They did it last Friday; the front looks good, but oh, the bad now has some bad spots. I'm hoping what's brown is supposed to be!! 43 degrees sounds real good to me. I've finally relented and turned on the air conditioning, waiting until I had to. :)