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Today was a landmark of sorts... it marked the first time that I've managed to mow the Whole Damn Yard at one time at the new house.
When I closed on the house, the lawnmower was still at (and still needed at) the old house, where it spent the next two weeks. Then it went off to the John Deere place for its annual servicing and they kept it for over a week before they kindly delivered it to the new house for me. Then I was busy with the actual, well, moving and stuff, and it was another week before I realized that OMG I'm going to need a hay baler if I don't do something about the yard!
The first mowing saw me getting through the top third, at the highest possible deck setting, which at least tamed all the part around the house itself. I'd started down the long stretch out to the road and the bottom fell out of the clouds and I mowed a funky twisting path back to the garage in the most direct possibly fashion. Whee!
The next mowing got me through the middle third at the high deck setting, and back around the house at a slightly lower setting. It was starting to look almost civilized, then we got a bunch of rain. Oops. And somewhere in there, the rocks for the firepit/drum circle got delivered, which involved a small Bobcat running around the bottom third of the yard making weird tracks and lumps and bumps all over the place.
Last weekend while my parents were here, I finally went out to tackle the back third for the first time. Discovered that there's a lot more to mow than I'd realized, as the creek does lots of little snaky loopy things, leaving me w/ all these little peninsulas to mow. Fun, but time-consuming! That also let me mow the fire circle for the first time, where I found that I did, indeed, leave myself room to mow between the inner and outer rings and around/between all the boulders (I'd made the circle too small at the old house and doomed myself to a lot of work with weedeater or pushmower when I couldn't navigate with the tractor).
Today, I bumped the deck down an inch, checked my watch, and went out and mowed the whole darn thing. W00t! I also moved the corner stakes for the soon-to-be fence in a couple of spots when I realized that I was creating spots that would be a bitch to mow. It should be tolerable in its current configuration. (There are some hills that can only be taken head-on, and the fence was going down one at an angle. Oops!)
I still need to spend some quality time with the weedeater, but hopefully I can manage that tomorrow after work, now that the mowing is all done!
(Afterwards, I rewarded myself by going, with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nycgadgetgirl and Snickers, down to the drum circle and fire spinning at White River Park in down town Indy. It was a gorgeous night for it, and it had been way too long since the last time I drummed just for fun.)
When I closed on the house, the lawnmower was still at (and still needed at) the old house, where it spent the next two weeks. Then it went off to the John Deere place for its annual servicing and they kept it for over a week before they kindly delivered it to the new house for me. Then I was busy with the actual, well, moving and stuff, and it was another week before I realized that OMG I'm going to need a hay baler if I don't do something about the yard!
The first mowing saw me getting through the top third, at the highest possible deck setting, which at least tamed all the part around the house itself. I'd started down the long stretch out to the road and the bottom fell out of the clouds and I mowed a funky twisting path back to the garage in the most direct possibly fashion. Whee!
The next mowing got me through the middle third at the high deck setting, and back around the house at a slightly lower setting. It was starting to look almost civilized, then we got a bunch of rain. Oops. And somewhere in there, the rocks for the firepit/drum circle got delivered, which involved a small Bobcat running around the bottom third of the yard making weird tracks and lumps and bumps all over the place.
Last weekend while my parents were here, I finally went out to tackle the back third for the first time. Discovered that there's a lot more to mow than I'd realized, as the creek does lots of little snaky loopy things, leaving me w/ all these little peninsulas to mow. Fun, but time-consuming! That also let me mow the fire circle for the first time, where I found that I did, indeed, leave myself room to mow between the inner and outer rings and around/between all the boulders (I'd made the circle too small at the old house and doomed myself to a lot of work with weedeater or pushmower when I couldn't navigate with the tractor).
Today, I bumped the deck down an inch, checked my watch, and went out and mowed the whole darn thing. W00t! I also moved the corner stakes for the soon-to-be fence in a couple of spots when I realized that I was creating spots that would be a bitch to mow. It should be tolerable in its current configuration. (There are some hills that can only be taken head-on, and the fence was going down one at an angle. Oops!)
I still need to spend some quality time with the weedeater, but hopefully I can manage that tomorrow after work, now that the mowing is all done!
(Afterwards, I rewarded myself by going, with
nycgadgetgirl and Snickers, down to the drum circle and fire spinning at White River Park in down town Indy. It was a gorgeous night for it, and it had been way too long since the last time I drummed just for fun.)
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