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chansen said:
A woman I estimate to be in her 60s is mowing her lawn right now. I don't think she speaks English, that I recall. Not sure what to do.
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I might be tempted to try to wrestle the mower from her and do it yourself? When this interminable heat ends, I am going to go mow my weeds. An observation: a lawn that is largely assorted weeds stays green where grass goes brown.
 
BetteTheRed said:
I might be tempted to try to wrestle the mower from her and do it yourself? When this interminable heat ends, I am going to go mow my weeds. An observation: a lawn that is largely assorted weeds stays green where grass goes brown.
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Your lawn is rather like mine, I think.
 
Are your neighbours fond of you? The one on the left hand side, who has a lawn service, and all grass, looks over rather disdainfully at mine, I think. Don't worry too much about it...
 
BetteTheRed said:
Are your neighbours fond of you? The one on the left hand side, who has a lawn service, and all grass, looks over rather disdainfully at mine, I think. Don't worry too much about it...
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My neighbour and I would like to get one of the weeds under control but it hasn't caused any hostilities.
 
After spending two hours working on a repair for our lawnmower - it was deemed unfixable by my mate who does the mowing. So off to HD it was - new mower assembled & lawn cut in the nick of time - big storm heading our way within the hour! Will be grateful for the rain - but wishing it would be more gradual and steady than the downpour it looks like it will be.

As we're "older" now - a self-propelled mower is the one for us! Hoping chansen's neighbour perhaps had that assist.
 
Don't think so. Don't really like those ones anyway. They help in a straight line, but are more weight to lug around for every other operation.

We need good battery powered mowers to drop in price. Little gas engines are a pain and messy.
 
ahh, little rationalist lawn mowahs (just filled with rules)
hae ta teach em religion
get em mowing the right way

WATCH OUT, KIDDIES!!
 
chansen said:
Don't think so. Don't really like those ones anyway. They help in a straight line, but are more weight to lug around for every other operation.

We need good battery powered mowers to drop in price. Little gas engines are a pain and messy.
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My experience also. At least if it is a push mower, not a ride on. Hard to change direction with it. Find a regular push mower easier. Exception might be if you have a straight line and an incline.
 
chansen said:
We need good battery powered mowers to drop in price. Little gas engines are a pain and messy.
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This. I would happily go electric if it was battery powered and could do my yard on one charge. I may look into it for my next mower, but current one isn't that old yet. Maybe 4 years?
 
Our next door neighbours have a beautiful yard - water feature with waterfall and big fish, real lawn, rockery with wonderful plants peeking and climbing, lush veggie patch and gorgeous flowers and trees. She specialises in spraying and vacuums the patio area. We have a bit of a mess that makes her shudder. Strangely she told me one day that she is so envious of us because we sit around in our messy and she can't do that in her yard. She can only sit down when ALL the work is done and she never gets it all done!
 
My battery powered does my 50' lot, front and back, in one charge, AS LONG as I haven't let the back yard get to "field" status. Seems to use more juice to mow through really tall weeds/grass.
 
So sad, KaytheCurler. We really need a 'sad' button. Imagine being so driven, so much a perfectionist that you can't take time to enjoy the results. I have a sister like that. Me, on the other hand: if I sprinkled 'weed and feed' on my lawn, I wouldn't have anything green at all. But clover, wild strawberry plants, violets, and an assortment of low growing weeds can pass for a lawn if they are mowed regularly.
As for my perennials, I enjoy sitting on the deck watching the survival of the fittest as the more resilient plants crowd out the weaker ones. My hostas are doing great simply left alone. I especcially enjoy the gracefulness of my solomon's seal that seems to be thriving. The ground phlox that Seeeleergirl started from a small cutting forty years ago to get her gardening badge in Brownies, seems to be dying back, but that is partly because of the chunk she dug out to start anew at her place. The hollyhocks and other biennials also are slowly finding it difficult to reseed.

Meanwhile I've cut up bananas, and local strawberries, and set out some plain yogurt to have with whole wheat toast for breakfast. The coffee is on. Come in and have a bite.
 
I neglected to mention that our 'across the street' neighbour has a wondrous wild front 'lawn'. It used to be basic grass that was never watered or fertilised as far as we could tell. Several years ago some wildflowers popped up in one corner. Nobody mowed them down. They expanded and other wild flower varieties popped up. Now they have this delightful natural area to delight those who pass by.
 
KayTheCurler said:
I neglected to mention that our 'across the street' neighbour has a wondrous wild front 'lawn'. It used to be basic grass that was never watered or fertilised as far as we could tell. Several years ago some wildflowers popped up in one corner. Nobody mowed them down. They expanded and other wild flower varieties popped up. Now they have this delightful natural area to delight those who pass by.
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There's a house around the corner from us where they basically deliberately went all wildflowers. They even did it on the boulevard. It was sold a few years ago but the current owner seems to have kept it up.
 
The "messy wildflower look" needs a fair bit more maintenance than you'd think...you need to keep the tall grass and the tree seedlings out of it, for starters.
 
Wrapped in a light shawl, Seelergirl enters the room with a few sticks of dry wood. She looks around; no one is up and around yet.

"I think I'll light a fire and get out a few afghans for people to wrap up in, before I start breakfast," she says to the empty room.

After what seemed endless hot muggy weather we've finally got some liveable temperatures. Yesteerday we arrived home at about 4:00 pm and appeciated the air conditioning. At 5:00 Seelerboy went out to the front deck to read while I thought about making supper. He was back in a few minutes later, walked over and turned the AC off. 'It's cold out there.' The temperature was dropping rapidly. We rushed around opening windows (our AC is ancient and inadequate for the job but better than nothing on a hot day). I decided that I could use the oven to prepare supper.
We all slept last night with light blankets over the sheets and woke refreshed. Temp 11c. prediction 23c by mid-afternoon. Beautiful!
I'll need a light jacket to hit the farmers' market with Seelerboy this morning.
 
ChemGal said:
I'm a fast burner and some meds make it worse. Sensitive skin means I skip out on sunscreen at times and just try to stick to the shade, go in for lots of breaks.
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I'm on meds that make me more sun-sensitive too. And finding a sunscreen that doesn't react with my eczema has been an expensive and itchy experiment. I've got one that works well for now, but recipes change so I'm always prepared for a new bottle to give me a reaction. Sticking to the shade is the way to go.
 
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