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Hello, Gatsby again. Welcome to the tale of Gatsby and the grass. Just a warning before

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we even get started, this has nothing to do with weed. Just in case. That's what you came

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for. Turn around right now. So this morning I decided to cut the lawn bright and early.

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I think I decided to cut it around like 630. Normally I don't think it would take that

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long but it took me quite a while today. And let me preface this by saying I am not good

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at cutting grass. I never had to do it as like a chore when I was young or anything

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so like I think there's some people who just like inherently know how to cut grass and

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it looks great and they have zero problems with it whatsoever. It is a struggle for me.

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I am not good at it. I feel like my arms are too weak to really have control of the mower

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but also too weak to not use the power forward function. So yeah, in general, total struggle.

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I'm sorry if you just heard a couple noises by the way. I just got a couple text messages

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and I record on my phone. Apologies. So anyway, I'm not good at cutting the lawn but it was

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too long and the reason I haven't cut it like this past week is it's been really hot here

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and me and heat also don't mix well and the last thing I want to do on a hot day is go

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cut the lawn especially if I've worked before that. So I should just go do it and I just

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haven't. So this morning I was thinking I was going to be smart and do it before it

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even has the chance to get hot because it got down to like 55 degrees last night which

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to some of you I'm sure is very cold. That is like perfect for me. It's beautiful leave

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your windows open when you type weather. It's like okay it'll be nice and cool this morning

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and I'll go do that. There was the problem that then there was a bunch of dew on the

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grass so it was pretty wet even though it hadn't rained and I know you're not supposed

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to cut the lawn when it's wet. I don't know if it's like bad for your mower or not because

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again like the technicalities of lawn mowing I don't know the same with like the actual

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lawn mower itself but I know it is a much harder thing to do. Like if the grass was

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dry it would have probably not been a problem at all but it wasn't because I was trying

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to beat the heat. So my yard is obnoxiously I don't want to say large because it's not

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like I have acres and acres of land. Just compared to like my neighbors we have a lot

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more yard and a lot less house here than they do. Like both of my neighbors on the side

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have these huge houses that take up like their entire property and the house I live in is

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very small it's basically the size of a two-bedroom apartment and it's set all the way back on

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the lot line. So we have just a huge front yard here. I say we because technically it's

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my mom's house but I'm the one who lives here. So out front in this big yard there's these

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two mounds and I don't know who decided they were like a good thing to do. I don't know

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I have this like love-hate thing with them. They're very pretty they've got like flowers

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in them and greenery and they they look nice and they break up the fact that the yard is

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huge but they are such a pain in the ass and when there's not flowers on them they look

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weird. They're just like mounds of dirt ringed by rocks when there's no plants growing in

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the fall and winter. So I don't know just don't care for them. So I have to cut around

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those and then on the sides of the lawn it's steeply inclined like the yard is like sunk

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in a little almost by comparison. Here's another fact about Gatsby. I'm not overly graceful.

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No one in my family really is. We've got a lot of people who we jokingly call grace because

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they're very klutzy. My mom and one of my cousins have a running thing in the winter

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that sometimes they like I think my cousin once stepped out of her vehicle in a parking

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lot and fell down on like a little patch of ice or something like she literally just put

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one foot down and boom she was on her ass. So we are not graceful people. So I'm mowing

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the lawn. Oh and then the other thing about the lawn is we have a real rabbit problem.

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So when it's not like those mound things in the front and the weird inclines on the side

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I should preface those inclines are like only a couple feet. It's not like a weird like

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large distance that it inclines. So in the middle are all these bumps and holes from

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rabbits digging in there and other creatures I'm sure and because this is it I don't know

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anything about landscaping and I'm sure there's a way to flatten all of it and I don't know

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what it is or who to contact to have it done. But after today I really want to. So I'm mowing

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the lawn and I feel almost weaker today than normal. I don't know why it just pushing that

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lawn mower was hard to start with today and then I got to one of the side inclines and

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so I'm going on the incline struggling pushing the mower and then my foot hits the dewy grass

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in a hole and down I go. I feel like not many people can say they fell down while mowing

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the lawn. It doesn't seem like a normal occurrence to me. But that's how my morning has gone

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and then it almost happened like minutes again minutes later. So then I slowed way the fuck

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down and it took me ages to finish the whole project because I was like you know what I

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have not had any coffee I have not had any breakfast and I just am over this but I couldn't

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just stop because I had already started and then I was almost done with it. I had maybe

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like three more passes with the lawn mower to go and it ran out of gas. I had some in

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the garage so it was fine. So that's how my morning has gone. I hope you all are having

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a better morning than that. Please let me know if you have had similar experience when

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you've fallen down while mowing the lawn because feeling like I'm a party of one on that one

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for sure. Yeah otherwise have a good Sunday. I'm sorry to bother you guys with something

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again after I just posted something yesterday. I feel like I don't post things often enough

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to justify making my own subreddit but I don't really want to keep bothering you guys with

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it either when I think of something I want to record. So maybe I will do that. If anyone

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thinks that is a good idea please tell me and I will do it and then I will leave you

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poor people alone. Alright I will I almost said see you on the flip side. Does anyone

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say that? Christ I'm just going to end this.