We only got a load of much needed rain where we live (3.3 inches) and it seems the bad storms started about an hour east. On the good side the heavy rain is helping to get the fires under more control.
The grass really greened up. Now I can start going out and cutting them some fresh grass. Every time I break the mower out I get a little more energetic finishing the next paddock.
There is a road above the treeline surrounding our place and I have lost track of how many cars stop and look at this old white haired man cutting 18 acres of steep hilly pasture with a push mower.
If my circulation wasn't as bad as it is...I'd be doing the same thing....but, the only way I can do it now is with the Riding mower....my wife pushes the mower now...
Yeah that would be quite the incentive! You could spend every day pushing the mower and the first place you started would need it again by the time you got done with the last part!
@CntryBoy777 You mean your wife pushes the rider out when you get it stuck??
We only cut for about 20 minutes a day and that gives us enough fresh grass for two days to go along with the feed and hay for the sheep. They even pass on alfalfa hay to get the fresh grass. It's a very minor labor that brings a whole bunch of smiles for us when they start in on it. Because we are basically dry lotting for the next two weeks we are trying to emulate their "normal" grazing behavior.
Our most lush grass pasture will be one of the last to get fenced because of distance from the house and facilities thus the lawn mower.