Improperly Motivated

It’s spring again and my once disciplined lawn forgot all of the lessons I taught it last summer and had fallen into disarray. My orderly sea of green had become an unruly mess with tufts large enough to hide zebra-stalking lions.
So I mowed.
While the mower’s snout growled and chewed its way through the grass, I [...]

The Rites of Spring

Ah the glorious colors of spring; the green grass, the red and yellow flowers, the blue streak as I swear at my dysfunctional lawn mower.
After hibernating in an aluminum shed all winter, my mower is reluctant to awake and resume its normal duties of mutilating my lawn and mangling my sprinkling system.  Every spring I [...]