Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for July 25, 2022

Did you forget to reattach the spark plug wire, Mr. Binkley?

Did you put gas in it, Mr. Binkley ?

Been there, done that (, bought the t-shirt.) Three solutions possible (at least where I live): grass-less landscaping, get an electric lawnmower (what I’m trying – actually cordless electric), hire a gardening service (tried that, didn’t care for the quality of their work. They had different goals than me – I want the yard to look good, they wanted to finish as fast as possible and collect their money.)

Let it grow, let it grow, let it grow.

“Chirp”?

I’ll be glad when the community no long feels it necessary to have a smooth expanse of mutilated grass in everyone’s yard. It ain’t natural.

Had an electric corded and now a battery powered one. Push a button, mow. Well, there is the safety bar too, not that hard to use. I do have a gas powered snowblower though, there are 7 or 8 steps to start it, sheesh!

I haven’t mowed in several weeks. It’s been so hot that the grass stopped growing.

I don’t remember this at all

go electric

In my experience, clean out the air filter. Most people don’t think about it, but if it’s clogged with a year or two of dust and dirt, then not enough oxygen can get into the engine to aid combustion.

“Chirp”? “Chirp”?

[Choke! Choke!]

“Ya got me. My @$$ is grass…”

I laugh. I ditched the über expensive mowing service this year and with a mere 1/3 of the savings bought a top-of-the-line EGO battery-powered mower. It works great. I can mow my quarter acre on one charge of the battery, and even at the now inflated cost of electricity it still costs less than 20¢ to mow my entire lawn. No gas, no oil, almost no maintenance, and the thing folds up and stands against the wall out of the way. Bliss, almost. Now, about the ghastly heat and global roasting which is spoiling the fun…

We’ve gone with a lawn service (how could you miss with one called “Lawn Order” ?) They do great work.

Some time between 5 pm yesterday,and 9:30 this morning, someone snuck into my yard and mowed the grass.

Nowadays many Millions of American must be plotting a lawn-less yard…those who want water to drink or shower in that is…

Lawnless monk!

Om manne padme Om!

(Oh Money PayMe Oh!)

I fought the lawn and the lawn won, I fought the lawn and…the lawn won.

Now if you had had an old-fashioned push lawnmower (i.e.,one person-power “engine”), you could have saved youreself 17369 pulls, one ax incident, a nervous breakdown, and the cost of a new lawnmower and of open-ended psychiatric care!

You have to weigh the pros and cons, always.

(Full Discover: as a teen, I often was assigned lawnmowing duty over at my aunt’s house; gas-powered. Usually worked with only one or a few pulls.)

The tree chopper beats the grass blade cutter.

“If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.” – Abraham Lincoln.

Which is why I have an electric mower.