the zen of mowing your lawn

[Z]

I find zen in pulling dandelions manually. Go figure. Maybe I just like to sit in the grass.

[Rick-o]

This is what I do at the house. I'm at the end of a dead end road with wilderness on three sides and a creek running through the back yard. The prior owners kept the yard "rustic" and only did the front yard strip. I've continued that tradition.

Now my small biz at the edge of town is a different matter. I like to keep the 3+ acres I mow nice and tight with no weeds or anything popping up. It's a small town with a lot of people passing by. I want to leave a good impression with all the downstaters who drive by.

mattkime wrote:
If I owned a lawn I'd likely be the obnoxious neighbor that let's it grow wild - which is not to say that it would be uncared for, just that I wouldn't invest time and resources in a vast green expanse that was only visited by lawn care equipment.

[TLB]

I have 4 mowing patterns and alternate every cut. It is basically a simple clockwise rotation but I get very upset with myself is I make a mistake an repeat a pattern or do one out of order.

[Dennis S]

I like "having mowed" but hate mowing. It wears me out constantly deciding which strategy to use (square, back and forth, etc.)

[3d]

Mowing grass has turned very zen-like for me the moment I ditched the awful gas mower and went with cordless. B&D CM1936. High setting. Mulch clippings. The instant on, push button start brings a smile to my face every time. If you have a the typical flat square patch suburban lawn in the front and back you will LOVE going cordless.

[dotman]

i suspect you are wonderig how i mow my grass. or do it at all. do i hire a child who'se allowance depends on buying candy?

am i subject to the same contraints of pattern recognition. front lawn first. backyard second

is it the smell of the gas pumping from the engine

i don't know.

dot.

[Grateful11]

Speedy wrote:
Show-off!

[quote=Grateful11]
Well you could mow it the wife and son's new mower, nothing but fresh filtered air inside the cab. With a 110" cut doesn't take long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIR1kMEZ0Q&feature=share&list=UUPAR4rxGJNYlQIu7snVQ2nw&index=2

Is this better? It's my wife's mower, I call it that because she does almost all the mowing.

[Speedy]

Nice! A machine for the rest of us.

Grateful11 wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Show-off!

[quote=Grateful11]
Well you could mow it the wife and son's new mower, nothing but fresh filtered air inside the cab. With a 110" cut doesn't take long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIR1kMEZ0Q&feature=share&list=UUPAR4rxGJNYlQIu7snVQ2nw&index=2

Is this better? It's my wife's mower, I call it that because she does almost all the mowing.