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Backwards and Forwards

So, I'm mowing my lawn tonight... as part of my chores around the house.  I've gotten better at organizing the household chores as well.

I wanted to get out this morning and mow before the rain... But I had graduation at work.  So I had to go and help with that.  Mostly it involves just cleaning up things after graduation.

I'll have to run over tomorrow real quick to do one thing for about 20 minutes but that's no big deal.

Anyways, I use this manual mower.  It's a work out this time of the year, that's for sure!  The problem is the manual reel mowers just work so much better when the grass isn't super long.  I haven't been doing enough mowing to keep up with it.

Well, I was doing enough early on.  But then the grass started to really kick into gear and it went through some kind of crazy growth spurt or something.

I've been doing a better job of it though by getting up early in the mornings this week.  I get up at about 6am and then from 6 to 7 is either lawn, or laundry, or some other thing around the house.  That's working out really well.  I'm going to keep doing that.

I started out just doing a little here and a little there in the evenings last month... That was enough at first.  But then the grass just, like I said, went through this growth spurt of some sort.  I feel like May and part of June is the worst part of it... Then the grass kind of slows down some.

Well.... my initial mow plan had been to just go clockwise around the house in sections.  But, since it's growing super fast... I've had to slightly revise that plan.

I'm now going forwards and backwards.  Forwards takes care of the grass that hasn't been mowed in a while.  It's a lot of tough back and froth with the mower.  It's a lot of hand picking the stubborn pieces.

Then the backwards part keep the newly cut grass trim.  Since it takes a LOT longer just to get a small amount mowed going forward.... By the time I finish that, the grass behind me will have spurted up and taken over my whole house before my very eyes!

This way, I can keep the grass behind me relatively tame and in check, while I tackle the jungle the lay ahead of me.

It's definitely working out well.  Check back with me in a month and we'll see if the grass decided to go through another growth spurt and I end up throwing in the towel and heading to Home Depot or Lowes to buy a gas powered mower.

For now... I'm gonna keep at it!

Alternate between working on the hard stuff and the easy stuff.  That's kind of how I do things at work.  I'll tackle a hard problem for a little bit, then break, and go do something easy.  Then when I finish the easy one.  I go work on the hard one again.  Since easy problems can be fixed in full, there's that satisfying feeling of accomplishment.  Then I take that accomplished good feeling and move back over to the one that I had been working on and pick up from where I left off with that.

A little bit of hard, a whole lot of easy.

Hmmmm... Or, you know... something like that.