Friday night we were in a state of near-emergency. Our grass and dandelion forest had gone to seed, and everything was far past our ability to cut with our reel mower. I left a desperate message for Mixdorf to give me the lowdown on corded electric mowers, but then had the inspiration to borrow a mower from a neighbor. We did and, by chance, she had an electric, corded one she had just bought this past year. Using it was heavenly. The ease with which the thing cut our front yard the next day was so amazing; and the cord, so little hassle (relative to the use of a reel mower), that I resolved to run out and make a purchase that very day.
What you see above is our new Craftsman, 12 amp, mulching mower. I spent a decent number of hours on Saturday (prior to the front yard mow) and Sunday (prior to the back yard mow) doing my version of the "20-minute gardener," which was essentially just picking off all the dandelion heads that were at full seed, so that the use of a mower would not just scatter them. I then went through and did what will probably be our last our last first and last pass with a grass catcher till possibly fall (when we may use it for leaves). Lawn looks decent, for the time being; though we may be about due for another round of corn gluten to make sure that we're good on preventing the sprout of seeds that have spread in the past couple of weeks.
God, I hate that I'm sitting here doing "lawn-talk." I hate lawns nearly as much as I hate cars. But what can I do, other than slowly work towards my ultimate goal of "less lawn." Coverage by various plantings of Sharon's are slowly taking up more & more real-estate; and the area under Lucy's new swings will undoubtedly be a dusty, grassless region by mid-summer. Definitely a work in progress.
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Sweet.
So much for my response time. Though no response sounds like it would have been soon enough, such was your mower fever.
Up with electric mowers. Down with lawn.
Glad that you made the plunge. Good luck with the cord. Where do you plug in at?
Your mama!
You can plug it up your ass! :0
Better keep 'em separated!!!
In the back yard, I plug in the garage. In the front yard, I plug in the kitchen (that & the washer/dryer circuit in the basement currently being the only 20 amp ones in the house).
2 50' extension cords. My entire lot is only 130' deep, so I'm good.
You will probably prove me wrong, but I predict that you run over your cord at least once within the next three years. I hope that I am wrong. I averaged once every two years, but I am giving you more credit since your not 15 and stupid with hormones.
Well, I'm not 15, anyway.
What happened when you ran over the cord?
The mower stopped working. I had to splice and tape the cord back together. Not recommended. Just sucked for me having to always watch out for it. I despised mowing my mom's yard and I still have negative memories of my mom's yard because of it. Hated it. I hope that you enjoy and work well with yours.
Well, there may have been some other factors playing into your negative memories of the whole experience, as well as into your apparent buffoonery at the time.
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