High kudos to the Skilled Homeowner! (And even higher kudos for your stubborn determination!)
Mowing the lawn was a kid's despised weekly chore, when I was growing up. Getting started provided great shoulder-strength exercise, as the mower never caught on the first (several) attempt(s). Once you got it going, you had to navigate an irregular lawn that was highly lumpy, with bits of bedrock poking through here and there that just loved to catch the blade if you weren't paying attention...attention which could be hard to maintain, given the thirsty mosquito population with which we shared our highly wooded property. The shade and acidic soil encouraged moss more than grass; we kids always thought would be preferable to let the lawn go completely over to moss (softer to walk on, and no mowing required) but alas, Dad never bought into that plan.
There are many aspects of apartment life for which I do not care -- but being free from lawn-mowing responsibilities is not one of them. ;-)
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Date: 2011-08-07 02:26 pm (UTC)Mowing the lawn was a kid's despised weekly chore, when I was growing up. Getting started provided great shoulder-strength exercise, as the mower never caught on the first (several) attempt(s). Once you got it going, you had to navigate an irregular lawn that was highly lumpy, with bits of bedrock poking through here and there that just loved to catch the blade if you weren't paying attention...attention which could be hard to maintain, given the thirsty mosquito population with which we shared our highly wooded property. The shade and acidic soil encouraged moss more than grass; we kids always thought would be preferable to let the lawn go completely over to moss (softer to walk on, and no mowing required) but alas, Dad never bought into that plan.
There are many aspects of apartment life for which I do not care -- but being free from lawn-mowing responsibilities is not one of them. ;-)