Mar 01 2008
Raining again
Well it was summer last week! AND darn I still can’t mow the lawn. I don’t know how KiwiVagabondish it is in general to be kinda glad you don’t have to, that you have a legit excuse. I have mown the lawns in the rain before. Kiwis are not wussy. (woosea)as in wood =oosy or pussycat! No we aren’t. But I wonder if that is a kiwi thing or if other members of the male cave bear clan are glad sometimes when it rains and they don’t have to mow the dam lawn.
I wonder.
Lawns are part of NZ life, we love ‘em and we hate ‘em. Personally I love the smell of mown lawn then its off to the beach.
The New Zealand masport mower is an iconic lawnmower.
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How right you are about the smell of a mown lawn.
Most times I enjoy mowing the lawns as it awakes me to a bit of compulsory exercise when I need it and so much not feel like doing it. The reward is that intoxicating scent from the cut grass especially how it dominates the drifting scents in the evening air. How I love that fragrance. Its neither feminine nor masculine, its out there on its own.
I have outrageously at times tackled the mowing task in the rain fitted out in my good kiwi swandri much to the disgust of my wife and family who found my rain mowing escapades a total embarrassment to them, and always commenting about what the neighbours will think of me. My head stubbornly thinks ‘who cares im the lord of my manor’- arn’t I?
Hard to understand that really as I was enjoying myself and I thought that was an important reason for doing anything.
Being an engineer I was totally absorbed at those times as to how the mower was not blocking up with the wet cut grass. The design was perfect and proved to be as capable as the manufacturer had recommended. What sort of mind of ingenuity did this designer have to include options of mowing lawns in the rain I wonder? My thoughts are that he is really looking after us blokes. Protecting us with at least one last chore that is possibly ours to keep,- mowing the lawns in the rain.
I don’t mind claiming that. Really, I mostly enjoy our lawn. Its our creation around our humble abode and it appreciates some TLC from me and it never fails in its demand for attention on a regular bases.
Honestly too, sometimes I’m not in the space to give it that attention as other ways to spend my time appear more far more satisfying, but when I’ve started the mower and get into the first cuts I’m away and buzzing till six hours later when its all mowed and I smell that smell of the cut ‘green green grass of home’ then I am truely a really satisfied kiwi bloke.