{"id":2381,"date":"2011-08-08T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:21:14","slug":"my-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2381","title":{"rendered":"My Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Ex moved out a year ago September I lost the labor to mow my lawn.\u00a0\u00a0 Sex God did it once or twice with my manual push mower during the winter until I finally bought a new edge trimmer.\u00a0 The kids took turns using it to keep my little living room sized front & back lawns down.<\/p>\n

Until I ran out of string!\u00a0 Drat it!\u00a0 So “new lawnmower” went on my list, finally purchasing one about two weeks ago.\u00a0 Of course, by now, my lawn in 2 feet high.\u00a0 Yup.. TWO FEET HIGH!<\/p>\n

It took Evan and I almost an hour to figure out the crazy assembling instructions.\u00a0 This should not be rocket science!\u00a0\u00a0 And if it wasn’t for my 12-year old I’d NEVER had figured out how to get the bag on!\u00a0 I got my emergency gas can filled and added gasoline & oil to the engine.\u00a0 (Christ.. its supposed to get serviced like a car!\u00a0 Its a LAWNMOWER!!)\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 Deal with it later… gotta get this lawn down!<\/p>\n

And, crossing my fingers, I pulled the string and shock (!) it ran!\u00a0 Of course my grass was so high I had to tilt the mower up to “mount” my lawn. Hahaha.\u00a0\u00a0 It was amazingly difficult to push and I can only hope that was due to the height of the grass.\u00a0 But most likely due to the type I purchased.\u00a0 Its a small lawn so I didn’t buy an expensive model.<\/p>\n

So I wrestled the thing along.\u00a0 I got about one quarter through the grass and was tackling a particularly high section when the mower up and died.\u00a0 First thought….<\/p>\n

Oh, my God… I broke it already!<\/em><\/p>\n

Not really.. but THIS is what I learned during the entire encounter which would have been helpful to know SOMEWHERE before I started!<\/p>\n

High grass will clog mower somehow.\u00a0 When engine sputters, something<\/em> is most likely clogged, move it back quickly.\u00a0 When you walk mower backwards it coughs out a trail of grass clippings like chewed cud.\u00a0\u00a0 Running mower over trails of grass clipping cud will only work half the time in getting said clippings into the bagger.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Buy new edging string, mower does NOT get the edges well.<\/p>\n

Whew.. mowing grass this high is EXHAUSTING.<\/p>\n

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Backyard wasn't 2 feet high lucky boy<\/p><\/div>\n

Best part…\u00a0 watching my Evan tackle the back yard by himself.<\/p>\n

Priceless….<\/p>\n

I gotta put my feet up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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