The simple pleasures of a simple machine: the push lawnmower
Technically, it’s called a reel mower, though I’m not sure why. I don’t see a reel. A set of horizontal blades — curved like strands of DNA — spin as I push, slicing the grass. I don’t have a bag attachment so the severed clippings just get dumped on the lawn. I’m fine with that.
I provide the motive power, a.k.a. the push. This is really only possible because I don’t have much grass to mow. We relandscaped last year, and that left me with just two lozenges of lawn : one in the front, one in the back. It takes about 10 minutes to mow each of them.My mower is an old-fashioned contraption, but then again, so am I. I’m old enough to remember watching my father use a push mower. His was a lot simpler, just two wheels.
He knows he should get sod — a neighbor did — but, dadgummit, that’s cheating! Where’s the skill in basically laying down living carpet squares? And the expense! But if the man didn’t have a lawn, where would he put the kids’ Wham-O Slip 'N Slide? Where would his children fling lawn darts at one another? How would he telegraph to the world at large both his gardening prowess and his reassuring conformity?Shwick shwick shwick
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