Mowing

Warm weather returns for the rest of the week, according to Bob Rose, meteorologist for the Lower Colorado River Authority. I’m running out of excuses not to mow the back yard one more time before grass growing season is over. It already looks over everywhere but in the back yard (no, I will not post a picture) out by the tool shed on the north end. There it is getting open field-like, is the way I think of it. It reminds me of a bit of mowing wisdom I heard several years ago, for really the first time, that if you want grass to grow, you have to mow it. Perhaps it was on that principle that I stopped mowing that end of the back yard a few weeks ago. First I would say it was too dry and really needed to grow more there a little on its own. Then it rained so I could say it was too wet–especially with an electric lawn mower (another story)–and then it got chilly, with days in the 60s and nights in the 40s, so I could say the growing season was obviously over. But now Bob is saying we’re to have highs in the low 80s the rest of the week, and not even another cold front before Friday night. Unless I can think of a new excuse, I will have to mow–unless I can put it off until next week when Bob expects a lot of rain followed by more chilly weather.