In flight

I did it!  I got the whole lawn mowed...front and back...so glad we got that new mower a few months ago and it's in MY shed haha.  I'd been kind of procrastinating on mowing the lawn, it's such a chore, this yard really does suck.  The front yard isn't too aweful bad and for the most part it's pretty flat..the backyard however pretty much sucks, there's all sorts of REALLY BIG DIVITS (no idea how to spell that so pronouce it like it looks and you'll get it) all over the place from my crazy dogs who loved to dig.  Seriously I was feeling like I was in grassy sand dunes, up and down and watch out for that hole and tip it sideways to get the grass inside the hole and then I realized that there was this lever on the mower....

I thought to myself, "Self...wonder what that is for?"
then i said, "I don't know Self, what do you think it's for?"
then I said, "I have no idea but if I pull it, it could be bad"
then I said, "But it's not red, it's not tagged with "don't pull the lever" signs..I think it could be ok to pull it.
then I said, "hmmmm" and no soon had I said than myself grabbed that lever and pulled it up against the push bar.
then all I could say was "Abrafrickincadabra!" because that was the magic lever that added a turbo boost to the lawn mower and it was all I could do to just keep ahold of it".  Awesome I thought to myself, this makes it soooo much easier....and it would have....if I hadn't kept forgetting it was there.  I'd push with all my might and then I'd remmber it and I'd grab it and then I'd be flying behind it again.  

As I'm mowing once I got it under control...do you know what it reminded me of?  Ever see a rookie janitor try to polish floors with one of those big...um, what do you call its?... waxer...the industrial kind with the big disc on the bottom? I know there was a movie one time that had a guy using one and it was so powerful he finally just climed on top of it...well that was kind of like me only I didn't climb on top of it. Superman jump in motocross comes to mind, holding on to the handlebars for dear life and your body is perpendicular to the bike?  ....there I go digressing again...I was walking along behind it thankful for the exercise it was providing me and thinking....of ways....that I cooouuuld modify, yea modify, it so I could ride it.   Remember the spaceship toy at Memorial Park in Pasco?  yea, I can so see me welding something up to simulate that...now, that would be making for some fun lawn mowing and if I did it right I could load it up and take it to Benton City for the lawn mower races.  THAT would be cool.  I might not be able to skate Roller Derby but by golly I CAN MOW THE LAWN!

I'll tell you what's not cool.  What's not cool is having to dump the friggin bag.  UGH!  And of course,  I had to mow the lawn on a windy day....and it only took one mouth full of grass to figure out that I should have been on the other side of the garbage can.

What's not cool is that my shoes are now green but my family will be happy to know that because of this I will no longer where my gold'ish Nikes with the pink swoosh (yes really!) in public again.

But it's all good.  It's all done.  And now I get to enjoy my weekend.  I love the smell of fresh cut grass and I was smart enough to shut the bedroom window before i started so I can open it tonight, enjoy the smell and not have to sleep with the clippings.  Tomorrow? tomorrow I'm going to conquer my fear of this stupid Kirby that my husband JUST had to have...I already know about the turbo boost thing on it but I've not yet used it to shampoo anything....too bad I don't have my dogs, I'm sure they'd love it.



See?  I might be new to this but I'm gettin there.....