First Cutting

It’s the first cutting of the year, and that’s always a challenge.  Will the lawn mower start?  Do I have gasoline?  What’s laying on the lawn that I should pick up first?  These are all valid questions.

Pulling the wagon behind me I walked the yard looking for things that could damage the mower.  I founds some large pieces of trash (yeah, living on Main Street people think they can throw trash in your front yard… including other people’s yard clippings.)  Most of what I found were downed branches.

While driving the mower around I realized we didn’t get all the leaves picked up last fall.  This resulted in a lot of dust from the dried leaves.  Nasty, nose clogging, dust.

Some parts of the lawn were overgrown with grass while other parts were dry and the grass looked dormant.  I’m thinking it is time to invest in an aeroratoer for the tractor.  And, since I used the grass catcher we had a lot of dried leaves and a few bags of green clippings.  That’s how the first cutting this year went.

After mowing the lawn I heard the news that Prince (a popular rock star in the 1980s) died.  I’m not sure what possess people to elevate drug addicted celebrities to the status of hero when they die.  While I was never a fan of his music, and I feel bad for his family and friends, they guy was pretty low on the moral scale.  And, his girlfriend, Vanity, who passed away a couple of months ago as a big drug-addict too.  Nah, I’m not one to jump on the bandwagon and say how great the guy was.  He was a drug-addicted shock-artist sadly to say.