That was brutal

Sometimes I think the mower and the weeds are conspiring,,,  

Follow the imagined conversation,,,,

Weeds: “Hey, ya got a minute?”

Mower: “Huh,,, some’un talkin’ to me?”

Weeds: ‘Yeah, ya gotta minute?”

Mower: “sure,,, let me stretch a second,,,,”

Weeds: “Ok” then to themselves,,, ‘we gotta make this work,,, all brain cells to the front,,,,’

Mower: after a minute of ‘stretching and ticks and pops of expanding metal and skooging oil to fill the new gaps.   “whatcha’all want?”

Weeds: “Well, we notice you don’t seem to like your job too much?”

Mower: “Ya got that right,,, Used to love my job, but man, I am tired,,, just wanna park in the sun and rust away in peace.”

Weeds: “Yeah, well, we don’t like getting cut down in our prime and needing to start over every other week.  That shit sucks,, and then we are feeding on our own when we do get to grow again.  That is just 500 shades of wrong.“

Mower: “man! when you put it like that, Yeah, sounds like a true horror show!”

Weeds: “So what say you,,, You can keep breaking down and we get to keep growing, and eventually, you get your dream of  laying out here with us and rusting away,,,,,”

Mower: “you gotta deal,,, I have more than a few things I can ‘let go’ and piss him off to the point where he just gives up.”

Weeds: “Hot shit! that sounds AWESOME,,, Summer time, here we come!!!!

Went out to start mowing,,, Cord to the recoil starter gave up.   Ok,, No biggie,  didn’t have replacement on hand, but DO HAVE about 2000′ of paracord.  Not optimal, but will get the job done, and I can get the right stuff tomorrow.   

Then the draglink to the self propelled popped loose.   A little more paracord to hold all of that together till tomorrow when I can get another allen bolt to put it back together (have them, just didn’t want to dally around figuring out which one,,,,)

and then the governor spring broke,,,,,

Yes, I McGuyvered it with a stinkin’ rubber band dammit!!!!!    That grass (weeds) was getting done tonight PERIOD< END DISCUSSION.     Much more of this and I am going to just make a Flammenwerfer per BCE’s directions and do the nuke option every other week.  FUCK THESE WEEDS!!!!

(And yes, the yard is completed, minus some trimmer work around the tight spots.)