Two weeks ago our neighbor’s lawn mower mysteriously broke down so she asked if I could mow it last week since it was getting so long (and the repair shop said it would be 1-2 weeks before it was fixed).\u00a0 I agreed, on the stipulation that I could actually get ours to start… ours is starting to get a little persnickety these days.\u00a0 But I tried and, sure enough I was able to get it going, so last Tuesday I mowed their very long lawn.<\/p>\n
Then this weekend we were chatting again and she said their mower still wasn’t fixed so she asked if I could mow it again.\u00a0 I said sure.\u00a0 I didn’t have time yesterday so that brought me to today–one week from when I mowed it last.\u00a0\u00a0 You wouldn’t think it would be too bad after only a week, but you would be wrong.\u00a0 It was ridiculously<\/span> long and damp because of the humidity today, which when combined is an awful combination.\u00a0 And I couldn’t wait until this evening b\/c I teach, so I just plowed through.\u00a0 It ended up taking me over 2 1\/2 hours to do their lawn b\/c my mower kept getting clogged or not cutting properly.\u00a0 I literally mowed every swipe twice.\u00a0 By the time I finished my back was killing me.\u00a0 I came home, quick fed Chloe a very late lunch, put her down for a nap, showered and then collapsed (and accidentally fell asleep sitting in my chair for 20 min!).\u00a0 My body just isn’t able to keep up these days.\u00a0 Chloe, on the other hand, had a delightful time playing with the neighbor lady and their golden retriever the whole time I mowed.<\/p>\n Of course, the nice thing about mowing their lawn is that I get to sit in my studio and look out and admire how nice it looks, so it’s not all bad.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 And I told her if their mower isn’t back by Saturday, I would strongly<\/span> recommend doing it again so it’s not so long next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two weeks ago our neighbor’s lawn mower mysteriously broke down so she asked if I could mow it last week since it was getting so long (and the repair shop said it would be 1-2 weeks before it was fixed).\u00a0 I agreed, on the stipulation that I could actually get ours to start… ours is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}