An Adventure of Another Kind:Mowing the Yard!

Before Zack left he gave me a run down on how to operate the mower and weed eater...very useful information so that I don't have housing calling me and inquiring why my grass is over 3 inches tall.  In our community of houses, there is a small out building that holds two mowers, two electric weed eaters, two extension cords, two rakes, and the Navy mandated safety equipment.  It is shared among maybe 20 or so homes...not that there are ever two people mowing their yards at the same time.  I woke up this morning to low temperatures and low humidity because of the storm that came through last night...with cloudy skies.  The ground and grass were dry so I decided that if I was going to do this chore then today was the day.  Noah and I took off and grabbed the mower and two rakes(one for me and one for him).  The mower is a small super light push mower...that is probably the most dumbed down mower you've ever seen!  Someone actually put some thought into the type of mower to buy...considering it's usually the wives that are doing it.  I filled it up with gas, then pushed primer button three times(it's labeled and says...push me 3 times), and then pulled up the handled, and then pulled on the cord thingy to start it.  I had noticed that when I put in the gas that it was super low...so I ended up having to prime it more than once before it would start.  And we were in business!  Noah stayed on the porch playing with the rakes and I mowed the yard.  Then we went back for the weed eater.  Last time Zack did this he had to put string in it...because apparently he's possibly the only one that knows how to do this among the community.  Well neither weed eaters had string in them...so I grabbed the one that Zack had used because I knew how to take of the string thingy(can you tell that this was my first time mowing and weed eating!).  I sat down and while it did have string in it...it wasn't fed through...and so it was time for back-up.  So what does a girl do...she calls her dad!  Well about this time a man was walking down the sidewalk with his wife and he just looked like he was the type that would know how to do this.  I yelled over to him and he said...sure I can do that!  So he came inside the fence and sat down on the patio chair and explained to me how to feed the line through and also how to advance the line....in the mean time his wife was chatting with Noah.  Noah and I both thanked them...on his way out he says...I'm guessing your husband is out to sea?...I answered that yes he is...he explained the mower and how to use the weed eater...but he however did not show me how to put the line through!  So I then did a half decent job of weed eating(while Noah was sitting on a patio chair) and then it was time to rake, clean off the patio, and take the tools back.  The yard is not perfect...not nearly as nice as when Zack did it...don't tell him but I missed a few spots..and just went out and broke the grass off with my hand! LOL  But it's done!  Many neighbors don't use the weed eater because they don't know how to put in line or feed it through...so the fact that ours is mowed and there isn't tall grass along the fence and patio...now makes our lawn one of the nicer in the neighborhood...despite it's flaws!  And that's my story and I'm sticking to it!