Monday, April 6, 2026

Orange Thing, I think I love you

I fired the lawn man, the last two times he came, he did not do what I asked him to. We have very little grass in our back yard. It looks like this.
Two small patched of grass that I water for Beau to Eat when he is sick

 


weeds and sand

half the yard looks like this, it was full of tall weeds and nettles and I asked him to cut the weeds. He did not. I asked him to mulch the leaves. He did not. The first time I also asked him to NOT cut Beaus Grass. HE did...

I texted him and said we no longer need your services, I am going to
DO IT MYSELF
One week later Amazon brought to our door a huge box with these in it.

Two battery charger, 2 batteries and a 19 inch, no gas, no oil, super lightweight Orange LawnMaster Mower. I ask him to sit in in the living room and he did and then there was a bad time between the Mr and Mrs trying to tell each other how and what to do. Skip that part, its together and working

 and Now I am singing 


Orange thing, you make my heart sing

You make mowing grass groovy, orange thing

Orange thing, I think I love you

But I wanna know for sure

Come on and let me hold you tight

I love you

 Orange thing, you make my heart sing

You may remember my recent purchase of a rechargeable leaf blower and I named it Precious.  When Orange Thing came along, I decided to name them the blower Yellow Thing, and the mower Orange Thing because Bob can't remember the names I gave them and each time I have to describe what they are. You know, the yellow thing that blows leaves off the deck. I have shortened the names so that when I say I am going out to mow grass, with the Orange Thing I bought.

I mowed the grass, I did not cut Beaus Grass, I mulched the leaves, both the ones I raked up and the ones that were scattered on the little green grass we have, and I raked the leaves out of said grass and deposited them in the proper blue thing which was taken to the curb. Each time I cut I consider the money I would have paid him as coming off the price of the mower. 

It will only take 6 times to  pay for it and then its free to me.

 Did you notice its called LAWNMASTER??   Orange Thing is a LAWNMISTRESS Now. 
define mistress, a woman of authority, in charge of the household. And, The House yard.


4 comments:

Ginny Hartzler said...

It is The Orange Thing and you Are the Mad Thing. Phil wants to know if it's self-propelled. He used to teach lawn mower repair. Did that guy do ANYTHING right?

Erin the Cat Princess said...

How wonderful that you have not only gone green (or maybe orange would be better MOL) but fired the gardener and saved in due course loads of money. Once it is paid for in saved money, maybe you could mow others lawns and make extra cash for Beau treats :)
Have a wonderful, green, orange and yellow Mistress Powered week!
ERin

Tigger's Mum said...

Darned good job. Amazing to take that on with everything else you are managing but it might just be the kind of diversion and change of activity you need - and the reward of seeing it the way you want it.

easyweimaraner said...

all the good luck... we hope orange is the powerful color and helps to take care for your garden... we bought cat grass for that special needs, but by now no one used it... :o))