BEHOLD THE DESTRUCTION THAT I HATH WROUGHT (small pic)

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Um, the stump in the middle has been knocked down and rotting for a while. That wasn't me.

But I MOWED THE LAWN! All by myself. You see like, 10% of it here. My lawn is enormous and filled with trees and gopher tunnels and the grass is waist-high in parts because I'm at the lowest part of the neighborhood and the yard has been flooded for at least a month. It's still pretty moist. I've taken a break because the motor started making a burning smell, but the patch you see above is now GONE.

So this is a thread about mowing the lawn.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 18 May 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I AM SHIVA, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 18 May 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I'd rather let it go all wild...I always feel bad about the bugs that get caught up in the destruction. But I rent and the landlord and neighborhood association will get down on me if I let it get crazy.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 18 May 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I've cut grass for a living before but I still love doing it. It's that 'job well done' thing, I guess. You see results quickly. Very satisfying.

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 18 May 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I am finally done! Okay, who wants to check me for ticks?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 18 May 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Stand still, girl!

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 18 May 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok. You're clean.

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 18 May 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ewgh if I had to worry about getting ticks just going out into my yard I think I'd become a shut-in. Ticks... *shudder* theyre up there with leeches.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 18 May 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Must resist "Ticks and Leeches" Tool song reference joke (if only because I don't think many beyond myself, Dan, BNW and Sundar would get it).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 May 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

my lawn, my way. I rock it weekly, I rock it seekly. It makes me feel like a suburban hombre.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 18 May 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i disapprove of mowing lawns

― duane, Sunday, 18 May 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I assume you don't have one then.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 18 May 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Mowing lawns is fun. More fun than scratching lichen off pebbles.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Sunday, 18 May 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

My views on the matter: My garden's a mess - should I waste my life?

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 18 May 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I had a garden. I have a balcony. Its ok, but the cat has nowhere to run about, so she shreds my couch instead *mutter*.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 18 May 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

So what do you do while you mow the lawn? Sometimes it seems kind of meditative to me, like walking a labyrinth or something -- you can just let your mind drift or focus as it sees fit. Sometimes I just sing really loud, because nobody can hear me over the mower. Sometimes it's good to do while I'm pissed off about something, just really get into the physicality of chopping things down (even if they're just little green things).

Once I ran over a hornets' nest and they all came out angry (the ones I hadn't killed, anyway). One flew into a hole in my sneaker and stung me while I ran away yowling. Unfortunate.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Monday, 19 May 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The last mowing I did was with a scythe. Everyone should mow with a scythe, its much harder work, but so much more fun.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 May 2003 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Scythes are fun!

I can't mow lawns cos I have a scray allergic reaction to new-cut grass - like a kind of inverted asthma where my passages dilate and breathing becomes agonisingly painful. Yuk.

I don't think you need to worry about the bugs. I'm sure they'll all escape at the last minute, like they do in films.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 19 May 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

bugs are much safer with scythes.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 May 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a big yard as a kid and I hated to mow it. BUT my brane always found its way back to this daydream in which the mower was this enormous machine chewing its way across the surface of a peaceful planet; each blade of grass was an organic building hundreds of stories high, and the bugs were the citizens' v stylish spacecraft escaping the destruction, hoping to return in a few centuries when their city had regrown itself.

Also, we had a dog.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 19 May 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I used a scythe once too. It was fun, except for the blisters. It reminded me of a Ray Bradbury story where the protagonist has to cut a wheat field with a scythe and slowly realizes that he is actually the agent of Death and every wheat stalk is a life. He eventually reaches a part of the field that he knows holds the lives of his wife and kids, and he refuses to mow it. But when he goes back to the house, he finds them all comatose -- not dead, but not alive. So he goes back and cuts them down, and the house goes up in flames.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Monday, 19 May 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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― bosko, Monday, 14 June 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

We have a BIG yard, and as much as I hate mowing it, I love mowing it. My girl mowed the "back 40" today and I love her all the more now.

― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Monday, 14 June 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Mowing my lawn = shit because it's acres of all-downhill (or uphill, which is even worse), riddled with trees and bushes and assorted landscaping ideas. Scything, though, is sounding increasingly attractive to me.

These are the only pics I have of my yard, you can kind of get the picture [though it's only a fraction of the yard and covered in snow (pretty, though, innit?)]http://www.geocities.com/karatecommie/emilycrap/snow.html

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have a lawn!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I have flowers on my patio that I water like a tweeist every morning.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I hesitate to call mine a "lawn." "Lawn" sounds flat and manicured, even square. I guess mine is a "yard."

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you live on the set of Fargo?? (Yes it is v pretty!)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

A bit (ok, a lot) down and to the right of Fargo, to be sure, but yeah! Chipper included!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Whilst cutting my grass last week, I remembered that a cute fuzzy little rabbit had recently made its home in my lawn. As I made an initial pass by the warren, an even cuter and fuzzier baby rabbit darted out of the hole to escape the mean and nasty noise of my self-powered Toro machine. When I did my next trip around the lawn, I realized two things: First, I had to go directly over the rabbit hole, and, second, there might be other cute little baby rabbits down there that might be spooked by the noise.

I waited at the edge of the hole in hopes of scaring them all out before passing over the hole's entrance. One brave rabbit escaped, then nothing. So I made the dash over the hole and was greeted with the sickening sound of rabbit flesh meeting cold, hard, spinning steel. Rabbit guts all over the place!! Luckily, my two-year old wasn't around to witness the carnage. No sign of rabbit activities since that fateful day.

Other than that, I enjoy cutting the grass.

― tobo (tobo), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Eep! *covers mouth, runs for bathroom*

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

WOW.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you at least eat some of it? Rabbit is yummy.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

my dog's been poking around the area, in hopes of finding some flesh. her canine instincts picked up on the carnage, I guess.

I felt a little bit guilty about the whole incident, until I thought of the damage those little jerks were likely planning for my tomatoes later in the summer.

― tobo (tobo), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

At least you didn't put them in a pie like Mrs McGregor :/

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have a lawn anymore, it's pretty great.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 14 June 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

REVENGE FOR THE ANIMAL/INSECT KINGDOM:

this afternoon, I'm out cutting the grass for the first time since the rabbit incident/slaughter, when a swarm consisting of at least 2 bees attacks mercilessly, leaving me with two swollen stings. like a true suburban warrior, I carried on with the mowing, wondering if the score had been settled.

― tobo (tobo), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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