Just when I think I'm independent....

So Dave is out of town on "business" for a couple of weeks. As most of you know during the summer Dave is usually gone A LOT, doing the job that I'm not allowed to talk about on the blog. Usually I can handle myself and take care of most things. Well this time he's been gone it feels like I am lacking in the independent department. It hit me today as I was trying to mow the lawn, this is really Dave's department. Little did I know even 6 months ago that Dave was a grass nazi. He has fertilized and watered our new law to the point that it is a thick forest that grows approximately 10 inches per day (or so it seems). Then according to him, you have to mow it two different directions to make it even throughout... hmm and I just thought you made it all look semi-even. Mowing the lawn is not my favorite chore, never has been. So after letting the forest grow for almost two weeks I decided today was the day to tackle it. Note to self....don't let it go that long again, especially when Dave is out of town! First off the mower made this awful noise, cut the grass crooked and refused to idle and then the grass clippings wouldn't go into the bag, they just made a huge sloppy mess on the lawn. After some phone calls and texts to my dad and a good friend, and a decompaction of the mower, I (we) determined that the grass was just too long and thick for the current blade height. I learned today that you don't adjust the blade, you adjust the wheel height. Technical I know! After some experimenting I finally adjusted the wheels and was sort of good to go. The lawn was still too thick and long even for the heighest setting so I had to go really slow, BUT its done! Next on the list, the weed eater, I hate this machine, whoever invented engines that start with a draw string and not a push button or key should be shot! I was excited however, I got it started on the 3rd pull (lucky for it). Then I went to push the throttle and the whole cutter head flew off and across the lawn, seriously! At that point I was done! I turned it off, threw it in the garage and called the lawn done, at least till Dave gets home on Saturday! So thanks to Dave for doing the lawn (when he's home) its one job that I do not adore. Oh and Dave is leaving again for the whole month of September, anyone interested in making a few extra dollars mowing a lawn???