When we were living in Colorado Springs, we had a fairly small grassy area needing to be mowed. Nina bought an inexpensive walk-behind mower (more adequately described as a push-along mower). We brought that here to Pocatello where we have about four times the amount of grass needing to be mowed. Last summer I hired a young man to mow the grass, but haven’t had an opportunity to talk to him about mowing the grass this year. But, there was no way that I was going to mow the grass again having to push that other mower around the yard. I mowed the grass before we left on our road trip and it had grown considerably while we were gone (helped by the fact that the sprinklers were set to run every morning). My brother Perry told me that he’d bought a new Troy-Bilt self-propelled mower with an electric start. I wasn’t so sure that I needed an electric start mower, but I definitely wanted a self-propelled machine. Yesterday I went to Lowe’s and came home with the same mower that my brother bought. I mowed the front yard yesterday, which wore me right out. I was very happy for the self-propelled aspect of the machine. The only problem with it is that the speed the mower propells itself is set by how hard I squeeze a small handle. It’s easy to squeeze too hard and have to run to catch up with the mower! Tonight I mowed the back yard. It was definitely easier than previous times mowing the yard! This has already been a worthwhile expense. Maybe it’ll help entice our young man to mow the yard again this year? I hope so! I’m too old for this and Nina’s knees aren’t made for the walking, either.

As a result of the past two nights being taken up with lawn mowing, I’ve not done anything more with pictures. Maybe tomorrow??