Gravity is not on my side...

Hey everyone,

Today's big adventure was mowing my lawn.

How did I do?

Just kidding, that's not my lawn. Obviously, because this one has no large brown areas from Japanese beetle grubs. Clearly they're doing something wrong. 

But seriously, it was kind of an adventure.

 I know what you're thinking....she needs to get out more. Just hear me out.

So I'm buzzing around the lawn, jamming to my music and looking cool (ahem) when I made an inept decision to make a super tight circle around the nectarine tree at the normal speed. Next thing I know my butt slides off the seat and I fall off the right side of the lawn mower!  Thank goodness I caught myself with my foot so I didn't fall all the way to the ground. (This is the only reason I can still hold my head up.)

Lucky for me some other moron did the same thing and probably got hurt because they have that safety feature where the mower turns off if your butt leaves the seat. 

They're hip to us. Hope none of my neighbors were watching. 

Know your limits is my lesson for today, or at least the limits of physics. 

After I finished and because the grass was so long, it looked like there was a grey-ish carpet on major portions of the lawn. We don't have one of those handy-dandy mowers than suck up the cuttings. So I decided I had to rake. It was pretty warm out and I was in jeans and a t-shirt, hat and sunglasses. My theory is that my hat prevented my body from releasing heat through the top of my head an so I felt like I was raking on the surface of the sun. My internal body temperature gradually rose to just below self-combust. 

I sprayed myself down with the hose a couple of times but decided that the front part of the sun, er...lawn, would have to enough for today and came inside to either have a stroke or cool down in the shower. Clearly I did the latter.

What we put ourselves through for curb appeal!

I never did get back out to do the weeding...the saga continues. I can't even see the plants on the left side of the herb garden because the grass is taller than they are. Maybe tomorrow.