a weekly thing

Mowing is a way of life back here in the South and it takes up a lot of our time.  We get a lot of rain and besides that, our dews are very heavy.  In the mornings when I go outside to feed my cats the grass is always very wet. 

It hasn't rained here in a couple of days and the temps have been in the 90's and I still have to wait for the grass to dry before I can start mowing.  It's usually good and dry by 2:00 p.m., but it's also good and hot by that time, so this morning I started mowing by 11:00 a.m.  I mowed the shady areas of the yard first so that by the time I got to the sunny parts of the yard, they were good and dry.  Rick and I have 4 yards to mow, but I cut the cabin out, so we only mow and weed-eat 3 yards a week.  Mine was the last of our yards to mow for this week, but by Monday we start all over again.

I personally enjoy mowing my yard because I stick in my earbuds and listen to music as I mow.  I use a riding mower, but another one of the yards is small enough to use a push mower, so I mow and Rick does all the weed-eating there.  In my yard Rick mows the steep bank along the road and in another larger yard we both use the riding mower, push mower and 2 weed-eaters.  That one is an acre and a half of mowing and sits on a corner with plenty of road frontage and weed-eating.  They're all perfectly groomed when we're done and look so pretty.

Mowing does take up a lot of our time, but I like it.  It would be nice tho if we only had one yard to mow so that we could devote more time to fishing and the other things that we love to do.  It's great exercise and believe me, we both need it!