May Post / Cutting Grass

We could hardly wait until summer time and school being out. But finally Spring would come and we would get Spring Break that seemed to prepare us for the coming of Summer. We got out the lawn mower and would cut the grass and make the yard look nice for the weekend.

Now when we cut the grass we didn't have a power more at first that came along later. We cut grass with a push mower with a rotating blade that you pushed forward to cut the grass and if the blades were dull you had to push twice to cut the grass once.

We were able to trim the rough areas of the yard such as ditches and higher grass with a sling blade or sickle. You would build up quite a sweat when you did this.

I was about then years old when we got our first gas powered lawn mower and I thought that I had died and gone to heaven whenever I used it. It was like the difference between daylight and dark using a power mower over the had mower. You could cut the yard in know time at all and you could cut other peoples yards and make some extra spending money.

We lived in a small town in a new subdivision and we were the only house on our street for quite a while. The streets were dirt and their were fields all around our house that later would be sold as lots for houses. We didn't have sidewalks and we either road on the dirt road or we road through the fields.

When we got the power mower we would use it to cut paths in the field to our friends houses or to the closest store, so we didn't have to ride down the dirt road.

When I was thirteen we got a riding lawn mower and this was the greatest experience for a kid. Where before we usually had to be told more than once top cut the grass we fought each other for the opportunity to cut the grass on the riding mower.

Palmer Waters