[288/365] big dad energy
Oct. 15th, 2021 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistWhen I was getting dressed this morning, I heard mother_bones talking to what I figured must have been a delivery person, and then after she closed the door she told Gary "It's a present for your papa." I hadn't ordered anything and wasn't expecting any presents!
When I got downstairs I saw the box, it was a lawnmower. "Present for you!"mother_bones said. She was very amused that the brand is called Cobra. I was all here for the big dad energy of it.
I talked about strimming the lawn, but I didn't talk about when the strimmer broke a month or two later. So the grass has been left to grow for a couple of months now, and there were parts of the lawn where Gary looked like he was bounding through the savanna more than on a suburban lawn, heh. The lawnmower purchase waiting on the shed to have its more secure lock and hinges, and that wasdiffrentcolours's and my project last Sunday, so mother_bones must have ordered the lawnmower pretty soon after.
She had indeed gotten me a push lawnmower, a non-motorized one. After checking with me that I was really okay with it, and I was. It's less appealing for someone to nick, it's better for the environment, it's cheaper, and asmother_bones told me when she'd first threatened to buy it, it's a way to get hench now that I can't go to the gym, haha.
It really was too, especially now that the grass was so long and very wet. It was hard going in some parts and I did that thing of telling myself I didn't have to do the whole yard today and then feeling okay to do it anyway.mother_bones was really impressed at how well the lawnmower and/or I had done. It left me sweaty and gross and still kind of exhausted -- I'd foolishly planned to make dinner after this and was extremely relieved when diffrentcolours volunteered! he hadn't even known what I was up to -- but feeling so accomplished. I had a shaker, ate my kiev and rice, took the dog for a walk, and now I'm wondering when it can be bedtime.
mother_bones talking to what I figured must have been a delivery person, and then after she closed the door she told Gary "It's a present for your papa." I hadn't ordered anything and wasn't expecting any presents!When I got downstairs I saw the box, it was a lawnmower. "Present for you!"
mother_bones said. She was very amused that the brand is called Cobra. I was all here for the big dad energy of it. I talked about strimming the lawn, but I didn't talk about when the strimmer broke a month or two later. So the grass has been left to grow for a couple of months now, and there were parts of the lawn where Gary looked like he was bounding through the savanna more than on a suburban lawn, heh. The lawnmower purchase waiting on the shed to have its more secure lock and hinges, and that was
diffrentcolours's and my project last Sunday, so mother_bones must have ordered the lawnmower pretty soon after.She had indeed gotten me a push lawnmower, a non-motorized one. After checking with me that I was really okay with it, and I was. It's less appealing for someone to nick, it's better for the environment, it's cheaper, and as
mother_bones told me when she'd first threatened to buy it, it's a way to get hench now that I can't go to the gym, haha.It really was too, especially now that the grass was so long and very wet. It was hard going in some parts and I did that thing of telling myself I didn't have to do the whole yard today and then feeling okay to do it anyway.
mother_bones was really impressed at how well the lawnmower and/or I had done. It left me sweaty and gross and still kind of exhausted -- I'd foolishly planned to make dinner after this and was extremely relieved when diffrentcolours volunteered! he hadn't even known what I was up to -- but feeling so accomplished. I had a shaker, ate my kiev and rice, took the dog for a walk, and now I'm wondering when it can be bedtime.
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Date: 2021-10-15 11:33 pm (UTC)About how much grunt power do they take normally? I've got a gas one, but I've also got a small lawn and having something that I can just push around to cut with seems like a decent idea.
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Date: 2021-10-16 04:52 pm (UTC)(She says, having been bothered by loud lawnmower noise for far too long this morning...)
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Date: 2021-10-16 05:10 pm (UTC)