piss and moan

[sarahmichelef]

A good chunk of our yard is on the west side of the house. This means it gets lovely afternoon and evening sunlight. It also means it's too wet to mow until roughly 1 pm, also known as theheatoftheday (my weather widget tells me it's 84 degrees outside - not too bad, but I would have preferred to mow when it was below, say, 80).

Also, I found a rusty razor blade in the yard. Thanks, people! Fortunately it was in the easement, where TRex isn't allowed to play, along the front side of the house (the busier of the streets, where morons sometimes drive their motorcycles at obscene speeds in the middle of the night). Still, I think I'll actually do like my daddy taught me and put on jeans before I do the yard.

Comments

[irihs.livejournal.com]

Ick. That's not at all cool. Having lived next to peniscycle motorcycle central, in a location where the drunk people returning to their cars at 2 in the morning would toss beer bottles into our shrubbery, I sympathize. Of course, I didn't also have a toddler to worry about.

[blazing-sun16.livejournal.com]

You MUST wear jeans while mowing. Always. Your father was right. I still have nightmares about looking down and seeing my legs covered in sand hornets. Not that wearing jeans would have totally kept them off my eyes or arms, but it would have been helpful in general. The hotness sucks, but the extra layer between you and Things Which Are Pissed Off When You Mow is a good idea.

[laurakc.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of the lesson my cousin learned recently while mowing my grandparents' backyard: always wear a shirt. He apparently mowed some poison ivy, and it got all over his chest, arms, legs, butt (I guess he sweated...)

I realize you're not likely to mow shirtless, but still.