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I usually shift mid-season.  In early spring, I like to see it green up, and have it looking nice.

About this time of year, I dread going out there to push the *fudge*in' thing around in circles.

We have a fairly small yard too.

So, Holiday weekend, status post bourbon not withstanding.........

What's your take on it?

don't have a yard now.

parents have a huge one (as did both sets of grandparents) that I got to do growing up, in addition to doing some others around the neighborhood for some spending $.

never minded it except in july/august (for the heat, and the fact most yards were dead anyways!)...  always kind of enjoyed it actually...  an art to it....

that said, get yourself a riding mower then...  :P

Chore.  The front yard is more of a chore because there's a slope and it's bigger, and when I mow the backyard at least I have a dog running around trying to play.

But I admit, the lawn does look good after it's been mowed.


**NOTE** Our lot is pretty small.
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What stroh said.  I love it 'til I hate it.  Then I hate it.

LOL!  I'm stuck between that, and Aske's suggestion.  If I was on a rider, I'd get laughed out of the neighborhood, for trying to turn one around on a postage stamp.

That, and the whole.......(glug, glug, mow, mow, run over a cat, lights, drive down I 35 to Iowa, zealous cop, well  you get the idea.)


[Edit]  I just realized I made the choices above entirely too difficult for Clive to choose between.

He'll never be able to choose between preening his pasture, and owning sheep.  What was I thinking.

I'm exactly the same. Except for the part about loving it.

He can handle it.  He's ambidixtrous.

ztr rider?

btw, the real secret to a great looking  yard (aside from keeping it healthy... duh) is in one's edging and weedeating skills 

I put mowing in the same category as vacuuming and washing dishes.  Necessary evils.   (Seriously, I'd rather scrub a toilet - much higher reward/effort ratio)

A neighbor has an automatic lawn mower - sort of a robot thing.  He just sits on the porch with a beer and watches the lawn get mowed.  Now that's my idea of lawn care!

i'm that neighbor. you know the one. mister yard always has to look perfect. ;D

I agree with the love it until I hate it crowd. But......I mow a large expanse and have a rider. Plugging in the tunes and having a beer while mowing can take me away from the world for a bit. Or make it look like I'm turning into George Jones.

If one were from Pocatello, one might vote for buying sheep despite not even having a lawn.

Hate it, that's why the wife does it.

Two words. 

Dixie.  Chopper.  :o ;)

I looked out the window and what did I see
Popcorn popping on the apricot...

Errrrmmm, I mean, the boy mowing the lawn.   [sm_buddies]

I thought "preening the pasture" was the option for the ladies, what with bikini season and all.

I've never mowed a lawn in my life, being in socal and all there is no shortage of "help" in that department.  that said, i'd still call it a chore. 

my neighbor would say hobby.  he's always in the yard and he mows our lawn from time to time just cuz he had the mower out.   :)

I hate it. It doesn't help that my lawn looks like *feces*. Too many trees, bad air circulation, and I live in an area that is notoriously bad for growing grass. Too hot and humid for the cool weather grasses, and too cold for the warm weather grasses. Just right for crab grass tho.

Same here.  I hate my *goshdarn* lawn but want it to look good.  My front yard is not bad but the back is sparse and full a crab grass and ground cover.  My yard isn't very big so i can mow it in under 30 minutes with maybe a bag and a half of grass clippings.  I have huge oak trees covering my property so I can only hope to grow fescue.  I try and oversead every fall/spring and such but it is difficult to keep it lush.  It is pretty much green all year round but I have to water it 3 times a week.  Didn't feel like overseading this spring so it thinned out this summer.  I'll be doing it this fall though. 

What I hate most is all the leaves that fall on my lawn.  Literally hundreds of glad bags full every fall.  I pay to get that done otherwise I'd kill myself.  So until they come and clean up I make a few large mounds in the backyard of leaves like snow drifts. 

are there laws against mulching mowers in OK?  ???

Unlikely. I think it's more his like of foliage in baggies.

No I have one but they don't work when you have that many leaves and my property isn't entirely grass.  I have a brick patio and bricked in garden and such.  I've tried running the mulching mower over the leaves and it just spreads them around while picking some up.  Works ok for the leaves on the grass but that is a small sample of the leaves on the property.  So it accomplishes very little in the end and is basically pointless.  I also have a leaf blower/vacuum which doesn't work that well either.  Too much broken twigs, dirt and such to do an adequate job in a decent amount of time.  I'd be spending days and days using all the tools I have to pick up the leaves.  When the lawn guys lay a tarp down and pile it all up and haul it out in an hour. 

The number of bags full was just to give an idea of how many leaves we are talking.  A whole *goshdarn* lot to be exact. ;D

I grew up in an area of deciduous trees. Now I live on what is essentially the edge of the Pine Barrens, and I'll take leaves over pine needles any day. Every swipe of the rake leaves it clogged with needles, and they are so small they can get into anything. When I open the hood of my car in the fall, the engine will be full of pine needles. They're everywhere and they're a total pain in the ass. You can't use a blower to move them either; they have no real surface area and they tend to cling onto whatever they touch. They dig into the lawn so effectively, I usually rake up half my lawn in the process of trying to rake up the needles.

Sounds like a nightmare.  We have a few cedar trees but not much in the way of needles.  We do have some big ass pecan trees that drop pecans like mortars on our roof and yard and those string things they shed suck ass. 

That would suck to have the pine needles because they'd surely get into the the ac system and cause problems. 

I think that's that, LOL...

Four legs good, two legs bad. Four legs good, two legs bad.

That is Russell's job, he has a ride-on, and it usually takes him a few beers to get our lawn mowed.

Must ... resist ... obvious ... joke ...

I don't know if I should tell you all, that he is making a putting green out the back as well!! ;D ;D

As if he even needs practice getting in the hole.

 [sm_shock]

You know, those have to be cropped pretty tight.  And maintained regularly.

I use a lawn service.  The guy comes at two week intervals and charges $35 for each visit (cutting and edging the grass).  I pay him a little extra when he trims the hedges.  It's well worth it.

I just can't do it.   :P 

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There must be a double entendre in there somewhere, but I don't get it.

Sorta, OP.  More in the vein of the thread, than anything specific.  8)

I enjoy it. :)

Oh *feces*! I thought it was about mowing the yard! Wow, now all the replies make sense. :shoothead: