Hello, Gatsby again. Welcome to the tale of Gatsby and the grass. Just a warning before
we even get started, this has nothing to do with weed. Just in case. That's what you came
for. Turn around right now. So this morning I decided to cut the lawn bright and early.
I think I decided to cut it around like 630. Normally I don't think it would take that
long but it took me quite a while today. And let me preface this by saying I am not good
at cutting grass. I never had to do it as like a chore when I was young or anything
so like I think there's some people who just like inherently know how to cut grass and
it looks great and they have zero problems with it whatsoever. It is a struggle for me.
I am not good at it. I feel like my arms are too weak to really have control of the mower
but also too weak to not use the power forward function. So yeah, in general, total struggle.
I'm sorry if you just heard a couple noises by the way. I just got a couple text messages
and I record on my phone. Apologies. So anyway, I'm not good at cutting the lawn but it was
too long and the reason I haven't cut it like this past week is it's been really hot here
and me and heat also don't mix well and the last thing I want to do on a hot day is go
cut the lawn especially if I've worked before that. So I should just go do it and I just
haven't. So this morning I was thinking I was going to be smart and do it before it
even has the chance to get hot because it got down to like 55 degrees last night which
to some of you I'm sure is very cold. That is like perfect for me. It's beautiful leave
your windows open when you type weather. It's like okay it'll be nice and cool this morning
and I'll go do that. There was the problem that then there was a bunch of dew on the
grass so it was pretty wet even though it hadn't rained and I know you're not supposed
to cut the lawn when it's wet. I don't know if it's like bad for your mower or not because
again like the technicalities of lawn mowing I don't know the same with like the actual
lawn mower itself but I know it is a much harder thing to do. Like if the grass was
dry it would have probably not been a problem at all but it wasn't because I was trying
to beat the heat. So my yard is obnoxiously I don't want to say large because it's not
like I have acres and acres of land. Just compared to like my neighbors we have a lot
more yard and a lot less house here than they do. Like both of my neighbors on the side
have these huge houses that take up like their entire property and the house I live in is
very small it's basically the size of a two-bedroom apartment and it's set all the way back on
the lot line. So we have just a huge front yard here. I say we because technically it's
my mom's house but I'm the one who lives here. So out front in this big yard there's these
two mounds and I don't know who decided they were like a good thing to do. I don't know
I have this like love-hate thing with them. They're very pretty they've got like flowers
in them and greenery and they they look nice and they break up the fact that the yard is
huge but they are such a pain in the ass and when there's not flowers on them they look
weird. They're just like mounds of dirt ringed by rocks when there's no plants growing in
the fall and winter. So I don't know just don't care for them. So I have to cut around
those and then on the sides of the lawn it's steeply inclined like the yard is like sunk
in a little almost by comparison. Here's another fact about Gatsby. I'm not overly graceful.
No one in my family really is. We've got a lot of people who we jokingly call grace because
they're very klutzy. My mom and one of my cousins have a running thing in the winter
that sometimes they like I think my cousin once stepped out of her vehicle in a parking
lot and fell down on like a little patch of ice or something like she literally just put
one foot down and boom she was on her ass. So we are not graceful people. So I'm mowing
the lawn. Oh and then the other thing about the lawn is we have a real rabbit problem.
So when it's not like those mound things in the front and the weird inclines on the side
I should preface those inclines are like only a couple feet. It's not like a weird like
large distance that it inclines. So in the middle are all these bumps and holes from
rabbits digging in there and other creatures I'm sure and because this is it I don't know
anything about landscaping and I'm sure there's a way to flatten all of it and I don't know
what it is or who to contact to have it done. But after today I really want to. So I'm mowing
the lawn and I feel almost weaker today than normal. I don't know why it just pushing that
lawn mower was hard to start with today and then I got to one of the side inclines and
so I'm going on the incline struggling pushing the mower and then my foot hits the dewy grass
in a hole and down I go. I feel like not many people can say they fell down while mowing
the lawn. It doesn't seem like a normal occurrence to me. But that's how my morning has gone
and then it almost happened like minutes again minutes later. So then I slowed way the fuck
down and it took me ages to finish the whole project because I was like you know what I
have not had any coffee I have not had any breakfast and I just am over this but I couldn't
just stop because I had already started and then I was almost done with it. I had maybe
like three more passes with the lawn mower to go and it ran out of gas. I had some in
the garage so it was fine. So that's how my morning has gone. I hope you all are having
a better morning than that. Please let me know if you have had similar experience when
you've fallen down while mowing the lawn because feeling like I'm a party of one on that one
for sure. Yeah otherwise have a good Sunday. I'm sorry to bother you guys with something
again after I just posted something yesterday. I feel like I don't post things often enough
to justify making my own subreddit but I don't really want to keep bothering you guys with
it either when I think of something I want to record. So maybe I will do that. If anyone
thinks that is a good idea please tell me and I will do it and then I will leave you
poor people alone. Alright I will I almost said see you on the flip side. Does anyone
say that? Christ I'm just going to end this.