What Started Out As (Part 1)

What started out as mowing the lawn… quickly ended into a project that wound up looking like this…

Let’s start at the beginning.

So, last summer my I went to mow our lawn. I had been borrowing my parent’s lawnmower… My lawnmower sucked. Dad’s lawnmower had a flat tire, so I started ours up. I got pelted by rocks. I cried. It was a bad ordeal.

Hubby had been wanting to buy a zero turn mower since we bought our original mower (back in May 2011, just before the Joplin Tornado hit). I talked him out of it because they were more expensive. Jump forward to last year, I got pelted by rocks. Again, our mower sucked. I stormed into the house, said, “I don’t care what you have to do, get me a new mower,” stripped off and crawled into the shower. I was a little perturbed. Remember, I had just been pelted by rocks.

The next day (or maybe 2 later) he went out to buy a lawnmower and came home with this…

We sold one lawnmower we had and traded my POS in on this (well very similar… this came off the Spartan Mowers website).

Then I was on the hunt for a lawn to mow because ours was mowed and so was my parents. I borrowed a trailer (later we bought one of those too) and went and mowed my mother in law’s lawn. Her mower was on the fritz and she needed her lawn mowed.

So now I mow 3 lawns just for the fun of it.

So……

Now that we’re caught up… let’s move on to yesterday…

I went to my parent’s house to mow their lawn. My dad has this old mower that was my great-grandpa’s as decoration in their driveway. It was in HORRIBLE shape. It looked like a jungle. So I went back to my house, got the weedeater, and started working on cleaning up their entry. I don’t have any before pictures, although I wish I did. 

My dad came to help me as did my little one. We cleaned up the fence row on both sides of the driveway, tore out landscaping timbers, tore out weird trees that were growing in the mower, burned leaves, burned gook, trimmed trees, bought new boards, put down mulch, and walla… The entry to their house is B-E-A-U-T-FUL (Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty). But that’s just the start of it…