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Up at 6.40 after a failure to lift off at 6am. In the absence of my morning walks I did 2000 steps yesterday. Just walking up and down the drive. To do "gardening" or to follow the robot mower.
No visit to my friend today. He's busy and I ought to be.. That West Lawn won't prepare itself!
9.45 69F/21C. Sunshine. I have given the West Lawn an initial blast over at maximum cutting height. The Makita mower didn't like it at all. It kept being bogged down in hollows between mole hills. Or by the mole hills themselves. I am hot and tired. Morning coffee beckons. Watching myself struggling with the mower on the security cameras. Only reinforces the battle to tame the uneven grass. Now I need to rake out the exposed earth of the molehills. There is plenty of bag compost lying around to fill in the hollows.
Of course the Makita batteries are already flat. Makita R&D never tried to cut anything but a carefully prepared bowling green. Otherwise they would never have released this piece of crap onto a gullible public.
They wouldn't want to tell the public how the grass is constantly blocked from reaching the collection bag. How difficult it is to remove the grass basket/bag due to the the IMperfectly placed crossbar.
The image left shows the hideous reality. The brambles I cleared are back. The vast wood pile of chestnut logs, to the right, is no less ugly. Bags of compost are lost in the even longer grass.
While I was tipping the wheelbarrow full of grass cuttings over the back. I pulled out a lot of weeds from the gravel parking space. They came out quite easily if one doesn't tug or pull too hard. Grippy rubber gloves always help.
After lunch I raked the molehills out. Using the back of the rake worked best for levelling. after breaking up the hill with the normal teeth.
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