Time to get started folks! Time to get back to basics.

Yes..These are still being made.

Now that oil is at $120.00 a barrel and the stations around here want about what seems to be $120.00 a gallon I started pursuing the local hardware store ads for you guessed it...a push mower.

I found a good one for less than $100.00. I called a neighbor and we zoomed down there to pick one up.

When we got there there were already a few people that had the same idea..because they had a few left in boxes unassembled.

I got it home and assembled it. There is nothing like the nostalgia of childhood when I had to cut grass as a kid with one of these. I wanted to put a big bow on it and present it to my oldest as a present but he still had not gotten over the last “present” I had given him..a shopping cart to haul groceries from the store.

It cuts really well. It is so quiet I could hear the bees this time as I started mowing around the mini-orchard getting in the way as I ducked under the blossoming trees to get the grass growing around them.