The safety bar cable on my mower broke a while ago, and it’s rained since. A friend of mine gave me this mower, blades already sharpened, and I’m giving it a test run right now. The front lawn was cut by borrowed power mower a few days ago, so that cut well. The back forty…well…this is going to take a while. That’ll teach me to let the lawn go this long.

However, I’ve found out many things using the push mower. Among them that grass is easier to cut when it is shorter, you can actually have a conversations with people while you mow the lawn with one of these things, and it doesn’t chop up kids toys like the power mower.

There is a sort of quiet, meditative quality to this.  We’ll see how long it keeps up.  I’m just gonna keep going while I can with it.