http://kiwivagabond.com/wordpress/raining-again/ A visual musing on New Zealand, Kiwiana and it's re discovery from far out in space. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:15:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://kiwivagabond.com/wordpress/raining-again/#comment-15 John Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:55:30 +0000 http://kiwivagabond.com/wordpress/raining-again/#comment-15 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. 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.

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