Gee…I sure am happy with my new cordless lawn mower, it works great! Now that I have my garden ready for plants I need to go and find some plants to plant. I think I’ll plant starts this year and maybe try starting from seed next year. Between the weather and the time it took clearing a garden area, which was a lot of work this year, but should be a lot easier next year. It looks to me we will still come out ahead $$$money wise and health wise buying starter plants this year.

Wow! The best buy ever, our new electric lawn mower has arrived, and it is cordless! It starts right up without any hassle and mows great. It sounds like a big hair drier…sooo quiet, I like that a lot. I also like the fact that I don’t have to buy gas to mow my lawn, what a plus that it is right now.

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It took awhile for the grass to turn green after the long winter white…sooo glad the white is gone. I really like green! It did not take long for the nice green grass to grow and then begin to seed. The dandelions grow even faster than the grass, and so many tall yellow flowers in such a short amount of time. I kind of like the added cheerful color, but there are those who say “wow you sure have a lot of weeds…better weed and feed real soon”.

I don’t like the idea of spraying or spreading a chemical soup on my lawn, actually I have never used it before. A friend told me their sister found and uses a organic weed and feed, but does not remember what it is called. I hope to find out the name of it soon. I did do a search online for organic weed killers and found one which sounded pretty good. I plan to do a little more research to maybe find on more cost effective.

I went and bought a reel mower thinking great no need for gas, oil, cords and it is very quiet. I ran across one problem with the reel mower, the dandelions and some of the grass was just too tall for the reel mower to cut. It cuts great but left some taller stuff standing.

Then I went back online to look for electric lawn mowers, and now have a cordless electric lawn mower on order. I can’t wait to see how it works. But, the lawn is not going to stop growing and wait for the new mower. So, for now I mowed the lawn, weeds and all with a friend’s gas mower which ran great, but was very smelly, noisy, and took two tanks of gas.

Well, it has happened…most of the leaves have left their trees. Just when we finish raking all the neighbors leaves from our yard, our own tree lets loose its leaves for the winter. Every year it waits till every other tree in the neighborhood is void of leaves before it even begins to let go. I still am not sure what kind of tree it is, but have grown quite fond of it, it is quite a beautiful tree.

This last summer I would sit in my lawn chair and watch the butterflies fly among the branches and drink the sap from the branches. I would watch as the woodpeckers would come and tap tap tap to get the sap flowing again, then the butterflies would go back to drinking the sap. They would do this for hours every day. Wow, what a site!

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Our lawn was almost all brown just a few weeks ago, so we began to water it a little every few days. I don’t know what kind of grass this is growing in our yard, but you can watch it turn green as you water. Now it is as green as all the neighbors who watered everyday.

I have seen lawns that stayed brown till late Autumn, so to me this is just amazing. Maybe it has more to do with the type of soil than the type of grass.

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