Just about everybody has a lawn around here. A big lawn. And, with all the rain we get, that lawn keeps growing all summer long, as opposed to Southern Ontario where, by mid-July, the grass has dried out and stopped growing. So, when you live in Fredericton, you need power in your mower.
We started here with an environmentally friendly, we-all-need-a-little-exercise reel push mower. We had good intentions. But our lawn proved the better of us. After several months of four-hour grass-mowings (I'm serious, four hours each week and often more. It would take me several days to recover), my brother and sister-in-law saw our great need and, as a thank you, bought us an electric mower.
A nice one. Plenty of power. Wide carriage. Nice. The lawn, however, got the better of it. After I had left it too long over a couple of weeks last summer, the electric mower actually caught on fire as it tried to power its way through the long grass.
So now we have a super-powered gas mower. We're environmentally unfriendly, smog-producing New Brunswickans at last! But at least we don't have one of these John Deere ride-em mowers. Yet.
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