An unfortunate confluence of weather, schedule, and enthusiasm led to mowing all the yard in one session:
I managed to remember to pause the tracker during a break in the middle, so it’s really just shy of three wall-clock hours from start to finish. It’s amazing how much work you (well, I) can get out of 100 mg of caffeine.
Despite what you see here, the path on what’s euphemistically called “our lawn” show a much more organized solution to the problem of covering our property with non-overlapping foot-and-a-half stripes. As with my leaf-shredding track, I neither venture into the road nor mow the neighboring yards.
Bonus: slept like a stone that night …
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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5 responses to “Punching the Exercise Ticket”
Is your walk-behind a self-propelled mower? You need that!
I want CAM for my mower.
I’ve read about robotic mowers, but they all seem to be breathtakingly expensive candy-ass electric string trimmers that wouldn’t survive contact with our front yard. I mean, even a “5000 square foot battery” might do a quarter of the job.
Bonus: I am so unable to bury guide wires around the perimeters.
It pulls itself around the yard, while I provide guidance. Seems like I ought not be exhausted after a couple of hours, but supervision is such hard work!
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