{"id":1430,"date":"2008-05-17T15:10:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T20:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:20:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:20:54","slug":"mowing-the-lawn-to-infinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/mowing-the-lawn-to-infinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mowing the Lawn to Infinity"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s what it seems like, anyway. This house has a half acre yard. My electric lawn mower <\/a>is supposed to handle a third acre on a single charge. The grass was tall when we arrived, but not as bad as last time when I beat it back, mostly with a weed eater. After the moving van pulled away, I plugged in the lawn mower to get a good charge on it. By Tuesday, I was able to set the mower high to take the top off the lawn. It took four charges to get through the entire yard. This morning, I made the first pass at the proper mowing height, and got two-thirds of the front yard done. At this rate, it will take three charges to mow the lawn on a regular basis. That means mowing the lawn will most likely be a three day job. I also have a self-propelled reel-type gas mower, but Hubby says he needs to adjust it. I can also use that, but the handle height is a little lower than I would like, and there’s no way to raise it.<\/p>\n

While waiting for the mower to charge, I did get a lot of trimming done on hedges. I’ve done the easy work. The hard work remains — eradicating the English Ivy attempting to overtake the front of the house.<\/p>\n

The other work taking up our time was moving a few things into the house. This is time consuming, because we are cleaning before we put stuff in rooms as well as sorting what we want from what we don’t want. I did get the desktop set up a couple of days ago. No printer yet, but we carried it upstairs this morning before Hubby had to head back to San Antonio for some obligations he has to take care of there.<\/p>\n

I have a workshop to write for Forward Motion and many, many boxes to sift. And more lawn to mow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s what it seems like, anyway. This house has a half acre yard. My electric lawn mower is supposed to handle a third acre on a single charge. The grass was tall when we arrived, but not as bad as last time when I beat it back, mostly with a …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property","tag-central-tx-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15387,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/15387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}