With Continual Reference to Justin Kahn.

Showing posts with label Lawns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lawns. Show all posts

Friday, June 29, 2007

The Lawn Sequel to End All Lawn Sequels.

What is it about my lawn that makes the neighborhood kids think twice before yelling second rate blogger when I am getting into my car?

What is the secret to my rugged, masculine yard?

I will tell you: I water my lawn with puddles of my masculine sweat.

I first realized that was the secret of my success when a beautiful patch of flowers sprung up in an area where I had ripped out a hundred foot oak with my bare hands.

Sure, ripping out trees is mildly straining, but to see the grass grow green, the roses blooming, the piles of dirt turning into small rabbits makes it all worthwhile.

Friday, June 08, 2007

Despite My Best Efforts I am Unable to Fit In Amongst the Neanderthals of the Fifth Quadrant.

The fact is that a combination of weak upper body strength, debilitating allergies, fibromyalgia and a certain impatience at any task which doesn't have a chance of granting me a kind of immortality, makes mowing the lawn a very difficult task for me.


In and of itself this is no problem. I know my weaknesses. I also know the many, many things that make me awesome.

But having neighbors and random hoodlums comment on my unusual mowing patterns is becoming unbearable.

It started several weeks ago, six a.m. on garbage day. I was taking out my garbage,before even having my first coffee when this beast says, You Sure Lack Your Parent's Steady Hand at Mowing a Lawn.

Today, during my sub-par attempt,a man with a poodle says, You Sure Don't Make That Look Easy.

To which I ran over his poodle with my lawnmower.

(The poodle, to make matters worse for me, was totally unharmed.)

So now, my quadrant has forced me into a corner. I'm looking into hiring or buying a goat to trim my yard.

But my sister says that is silly, I should get a llama.

I am tempted to resolve the matter by calling my old landlord. He never did anything while I was paying rent. Now that all of the contractual pressures are off, perhaps his latent genius for solving problems with spring forth.