I'll take that there push mower.

As if my neighbors don't already think I am weird enough. I bought a push lawnmower last week. Best thing I ever did.

You should have heard the oohs and aahhs from the older folk as we wheeled it through the family-owned hardware store.

"Didn't think they made them like that anymore"
"You know I used to mow the whole neighborhood with one of them kind of lawnmowers"
"That's all we had back when I was a kid"
"My grandma still uses hers"
"Mind if i give her a whirl?" (just kidding about that last one but I wouldn't have been surprised)

So we purchased a push mower for less than half the cost of a gas mower and at 15% off. We took her home to give her a whirl.

She worked like a champ. And why wouldn't she? She's just like a gas mower without an engine.

A neighbor calls out, "You seedin' over there?"
I return, "No."
He: "Don't tell me you're cuttin' grass"
Me: "Yep."
He: "You outta put a motor on that thing"
Me: "What are you talking about? It does have a motor." I point to my biceps.
He: "I gotta see this"

So, he comes down to take a look-see. I push it a few more stretches and he is fascinated. "Oh, that's how they work" he says. "I always wondered."

And I always wondered too. And now I wonder why more people don't have these. Well, the people with small yards at least. They are fantastic! No gas, no maintenance, no difficult storage. I am completely sold. Won over. In love.

I am also in love with the idea that Max nearly mowed half of it himself. Insisted on it in fact. In about five years he and his brother will be takin' that hog door to door cuttin' grass and earnin' their keep.

Schmeese and Swabby's Old Fashioned Lawn Service.

And they'll wear knickers and little newsies caps and sing songs like Big Rock Candy Mountain and Dixieland while they work.

You just wait.

Book your yard at $1 a week below.

Starts in five years.