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[flea]

To unwind after a tense discussion of money & the future last night I read mr. flea the first chapter of Welcome to Temptaton. He laughed like a loon at the town council meeting. It was an inspired idea.

Have just mowed the front lawn. It's very humid, but better now than at 10 am.

Have been awake since 5:30. This is not good, but there's too much going on in my head.

Despite the occasional near-insanity from tiredness, I really like the nightttime nursing sessions with The Fussa. She is so long-bodied and pale and cool and soft skinned as she lies across my lap. It's the only time nursing her is truly soothing, as when she's properly awake it's like nursing a wayward highly distractable octopus sometimes.

mr. flea is snoring like a walrus - I can hear him over the AC and down the hall. What will he be like at 55?

Comments

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

You were mowing the lawn at six in the morning? In shotgun country? You are a brave woman...

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Not at all. We have an old-fashioned reel push mower. It makes little more noise than a pair of scissors!

[fufaraw]

We're thinking of buying one of those. I know sophiap has one and loves it. We have almost an acre of lawn, but we've let about a third of it go wild for rabbit and bird habitat. We also have a lawn tractor that seems to be at the age where it requires a stream of money to keep running, as everything on it has reached its projected lifespan. And the push mower is balky, loud, fumey, and generally unpleasant. So we're thinking with a rotary mower, if we keep the blades sharp, we can each do an hour or half-hour per day every day it isn't raining, get the whole yard done in rotation every week, and get a bit of healthy exercise, too. I love the quietness, and the efficiency of sharp blades, and the smell of cut grass rather than petroleum fumes.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

We hates them, precious. Possibly it's all the years I had to push one around at the house where I grew up. When they're working properly, and the grass isn't all that tall, and isn't at all wet, they are fun and good exercise. Any other time they are miserable. My old landlady had one that I would use occasionally to do the parts of the lawn that I couldn't get at easily with the rider, and it drove me frelling crazy.

Think electric.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

I like ours. Our lawn is not that big. I just did most of the back with the baby in the backpack in less than half an hour. The front is hard because it's not leevl ground due to construction work last year, so it takes half and hour for a small patch.

You do have to keep at it. We do it at least once a week and during rainy seasons and spring it needs it more often. It is hard work if the grass gets tall, but here in the dry south, once true summer sets in the grass is pretty darn slow-growing. The toughest months are april and may.

Ours cost $90 at home depot - we got the cheapest no-frills one a year ago april and haven't sharpened it since. Since the local kid chages $15 a lawn a week, we figure we paid for it pretty fast.