It Grows, I Mow

I'm pretty sure that, judging by the grass growth in my yard, sometime in the recent past this part of the world was actually a rain forest. Mowing today was ridiculous, but, like many things, it had kind of gotten away from us. I had no fear, though, and got it done.

The yard looks much nicer now, and I got my sweat on really nicely (before training, I might add!). Apparently, my wife appreciates the hard work, particularly since mowing today not only meant taming ridiculous, tufty grasses that were knee-high in places, but it also meant clearing up some seriously overgrown, weedy areas that threatened to stall the mower with every pass (some requiring five or six passes to finally defeat -- the stuff in the picture near the bottom of this post has nothing on the mess I mowed today in a few places). Those, by the bye, were overgrown and weedy because they were "random garden spots," where garden-type (food-producing) plants grew unbidden in the yard and were allowed to continue until they produced food for us, some of which we have no idea how we got... like the acorn squash, crazy cucumber, and smoothie cantaloupe that we didn't even plant. Actually, my wife apparently appreciates the hard work so much that the computer is quite boring at the moment, so I'm ending this here. Good for me!