GAWD, I do not miss mowing a lawn. When we moved to AZ there was a patch of grass in the back and dug it out as soon as possible, although I still had to mow it for a few months.
Unfortunately, one advantage of regularly-watered grass here is that it tends to keep the scorpions outside. . . . .
Trying to find a decent courtroom drama book, like Connelly's Mickey Haller series. Everything I try has mysterious pasts that some character has to come to terms with and turns into crap. A drinking problem, how interesting. Just stop it, to quote Bob Newhart. Maybe they're all written by AI now.
Law students are on summer break and you're providing them with important insights about their instructors and classes and they are mowing your lawn(s) as a form of payment.
I don't know how many lawn tractors we have. Hubby uses one or two and the rest are kept for spare parts. Though with these push mowers, I wouldn't think Meade needed any for spare parts. Or maybe he does.
I have three reel push mowers in the basement but the modern ones don't cut every kind of grass but rather rise up over it and leave a growing clump there. Unlike old push mowers that just stopped with their wheels locked at such grass. So the rising-up move makes it easy to push but also leaves the grass uncut.
If this is a cafe thread, Coffee and Covid has some very pertinent questions about the Epstein matter and the recent DOJ memo. I'd link but I cant figure out how. I believe that you need to subscribe (free). coffeeandcovid@substack.com.
"As always, I suggest that you avoid the hot takes and wait for the facts. This story is still developing, and is much more than it appears. The memo and video drop are not normal.
🔥 Something else occurred to me. Democrats’ crocodile tears about Trump’s “kingship” seem even more hypocritical in light of the furious MAGA response to the “draft memo.” Democrats guarded Biden’s cognitive jello like an army of Praetorian guards around a fortress of silence. Any slip of Biden’s forked tongue was explained away as “folksy charm” or “deep empathy,” while press access was rationed like Soviet sugar.
Staffers carried flashcards, press conferences had pre-approved reporters, and the man was literally escorted off stage by Easter Bunnies and pop singers. That’s what royal protection looks like— a royal court shielding a senescent monarch.
Meanwhile, the MAGA base saw one sketchy, unsigned memo contradicting a months-old Bondi quote and immediately began storming the digital barricades. Far from worship, that’s healthy suspicion. They’re not defending the throne— they’re angrily confronting the stewards, torches and pitchforks in hand. That’s hardly king worship. It’s republicanism in action (lowercase “r”).
Which party acts like their President is a king? To answer my own question, if “acting like a king” means blind loyalty and ritualized denial, the Democrats wrote the script. Love Trump or not, MAGA just proved once again that the President is not above fire from his own side.
I’m going to guess that Meade has convinced several of your neighbors of the benefits of push reel mowers, and they have brought them over to be sharpened.
Thank you, Peachy. I've been rewatching Homeland. The first time, I thought it was great, but also thought that the conduct of the intelligence agencies involved was a little far-fetched. Now I think they sanitized what really happens.
Clue: All the mowers belong to us but only three were bought by us. I’m saying us because one is the one that I bought on my own before I met Meade. Only one of the Fiskars mowers was bought by us.
Now that the migrant lawn cutters have been removed by ICE, there’s a need for red blooded American citizen grass cutters. It might be the start of Meade Mows Lawns. The extra mowers are for the high school kids he’ll employ.
I normally don't read the comments on Althouse, because too often they are just Trump ditto-heads yelling in agreement with each other in an echo chamber, but I really got a kick out of these comments. Keep it up!
There is no unique combination of the sources so there are multiple solutions. Ann had one before marriage and one fiskar and two odd balls were purchased after marriage. So the three left are owned but not purchased by “us”. They could have been bought by Mead or acquired without being bought by mead before marriage. Or acquired without being bought by “us” after marriage, or Ann before marriage.
We have no information as to why they were acquired. To guess:
1. Acquired for future resale after appreciation. 2. As capital equipment for a mowing service. 3. Spare parts. 4. To start a push mower museum. 5. To reduce the need for maintenance and resharpening. 6. A problem with letting go. 7. The yard has seven different cutting conditions and instead of readjusting the mower seven predjusted mowers are kept. 8. A chop shop for stolen mowers.
Inga said... Now that the migrant lawn cutters have been removed by ICE, there’s a need for red blooded American citizen grass cutters. It might be the start of Meade Mows Lawns. The extra mowers are for the high school kids he’ll employ.
7/8/25, 4:05 PM
WOW!! Imagine that!! American workers doing America's work!! What a concept!!
Inga blathered... Now that the migrant lawn cutters have been removed by ICE, there’s a need for red blooded American citizen grass cutters. It might be the start of Meade Mows Lawns. The extra mowers are for the high school kids he’ll employ.
Wow this must be the most pathetic self-own I've seen her since the good old days of Garage Mahal! Now we don't even have to point and laugh at Dinga's moronic, vapid hackery-she does it to herself for us! =)
You secretly own several acres of land. To keep in shape - Meade spends a great deal of time Push-mowing various acres of various grasses... and various types of edge work.
Meade, like myself, checks out neighbors who are moving to see what tools they leave behind. I've gotten mowers, numerous rakes and shovels, etc., by just looting the trash.
We had a Fiskars reel mower that was perfect for our small townhouse lot, until a strain of very thick Bermuda grass started taking over our lawn. I couldn’t get the mower through that patch even with a running start. I replaced it with an electric mower.
“ Meade is getting broken mowers from neighbors, fixing them, then giving them away to others. ”
This is correct!
Meade is finding mowers that people are putting out to the curb as trash. He knows how to fix them and the people who are throwing them out think they’re just no good anymore… or so I infer. And he does give them away to other people as you guessed. Very good!
I think Fiskars ought to know that people are getting highly frustrated with these expensive mowers. They’re touted as working really well, which they do when they’re new, but there’s some kind of maintenance that’s needed to keep them going and people aren’t doing that. They’re just throwing them away. Meade has collected so many in just a few blocks around our home.
Maybe some people are reading this who put their Fiskars mower out to the curb and are now frustrated to see it completely restored to its proper working order. Be assured that your rescue mower has been or will be rehomed.
"Maybe some people are reading this who put their Fiskars mower out to the curb and are now frustrated to see it completely restored to its proper working order."
Because going online and asking "How do I fix my Fiskars mower?" is too much trouble?
"The Fiskars mower costs at least $250. What’s going on?!"fall in love with the idea of a reel mower. Then reality sets in on a hot day in June.
Quality costs.
People fall in love with the idea of a reel mower and then a hot day in June comes along and they find out it's work.
"He knows how to fix them and the people who are throwing them out think they’re just no good anymore… or so I infer."
You are correct. The vast majority of window air conditioners you see on the curb are just dirty. Give the coils a good wash and they work fine. The same goes for gas mowers. It won't start because the owner left gas in the tank all winter and the carburetor is varnished up. Clean the carburetor and off you go. That goes for any gas powered lawn equipment.
Most of the mowers I have owned in my life were throw-aways from people who preferred the idea of a brand new lawn mower over repairing their old one. In just about every case it was just a matter of cleaning the carburetor, putting in a new plug and sometimes a pull rope, et voila! A perfectly good lawn mower.
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When a daddy lawnmower loves a mommy lawnmower very much, they ....
"There's a reason why we have so many lawn mowers."
Some kind of sorcerer's apprentice spell?
Do tell.
One for every day of the week. Not uncommon.
GAWD, I do not miss mowing a lawn. When we moved to AZ there was a patch of grass in the back and dug it out as soon as possible, although I still had to mow it for a few months.
Unfortunately, one advantage of regularly-watered grass here is that it tends to keep the scorpions outside. . . . .
Leader of a precision lawn mower drill team?
You are trying to find a push mower that actually works for longer than a few cuts?
Meade reely likes mowing.
You're running a lawn mower rescue and shelter?
You didn't get your first one spayed?
Art display? All you need is a backstory about "trying to start a conversation about..."
They feature a belly dancer at the local lawn mower shop?
Tom Sawyer had a bunch, too.
How big is your lawn?
You didn't marry a fix-it man...
I have a couple dozen scythes. A dozen if you count snaths. Favorite blade 36"
Tools make the job.
Trying to find a decent courtroom drama book, like Connelly's Mickey Haller series. Everything I try has mysterious pasts that some character has to come to terms with and turns into crap. A drinking problem, how interesting. Just stop it, to quote Bob Newhart. Maybe they're all written by AI now.
Synchronized lawn mowing?
Hoarding affliction
Is it for communal lawn mowing, the Wisconsin equivalent of an Amish barn-raising?
One of them is backwards. Why?
The Althouse Amazon Portal has opened to another dimension.
The mowers fool around when you guys aren't there.
Law students are on summer break and you're providing them with important insights about their instructors and classes and they are mowing your lawn(s) as a form of payment.
What's grass?
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
They're all set at different heights.
I don't know how many lawn tractors we have. Hubby uses one or two and the rest are kept for spare parts. Though with these push mowers, I wouldn't think Meade needed any for spare parts. Or maybe he does.
I have three reel push mowers in the basement but the modern ones don't cut every kind of grass but rather rise up over it and leave a growing clump there. Unlike old push mowers that just stopped with their wheels locked at such grass. So the rising-up move makes it easy to push but also leaves the grass uncut.
If this is a cafe thread, Coffee and Covid has some very pertinent questions about the Epstein matter and the recent DOJ memo.
I'd link but I cant figure out how. I believe that you need to subscribe (free). coffeeandcovid@substack.com.
Meade is working the gardening section of Consumer Reports now?
Looks like the starting grid for a lawnmower Grand Prix.
Only one is sharp enough to cut grass.
uh - no idea.
Do tell.
Coffeeand COVID
yes it doesn't really make sense,
from the link: (I like this writing)
"As always, I suggest that you avoid the hot takes and wait for the facts. This story is still developing, and is much more than it appears. The memo and video drop are not normal.
🔥 Something else occurred to me. Democrats’ crocodile tears about Trump’s “kingship” seem even more hypocritical in light of the furious MAGA response to the “draft memo.” Democrats guarded Biden’s cognitive jello like an army of Praetorian guards around a fortress of silence. Any slip of Biden’s forked tongue was explained away as “folksy charm” or “deep empathy,” while press access was rationed like Soviet sugar.
Staffers carried flashcards, press conferences had pre-approved reporters, and the man was literally escorted off stage by Easter Bunnies and pop singers. That’s what royal protection looks like— a royal court shielding a senescent monarch.
Meanwhile, the MAGA base saw one sketchy, unsigned memo contradicting a months-old Bondi quote and immediately began storming the digital barricades. Far from worship, that’s healthy suspicion. They’re not defending the throne— they’re angrily confronting the stewards, torches and pitchforks in hand. That’s hardly king worship. It’s republicanism in action (lowercase “r”).
Which party acts like their President is a king? To answer my own question, if “acting like a king” means blind loyalty and ritualized denial, the Democrats wrote the script. Love Trump or not, MAGA just proved once again that the President is not above fire from his own side.
I’ll bet he was surprised."
Meade, I think you've got the makings of a great country song here..."I fought the lawn, and the lawn won."
Gerda Sprinchorn said...
“When a daddy lawnmower loves a mommy lawnmower very much, they ..”
I think the mommy mower is called a tradmower.
Neighbors kept borrowing them and now they've been returned.
Actually, I think Quayle hit the nail on the head, at least partially.
Dress rehearsal for Madison Precision Lawn Mower Team?
Meade's the coach of a synchronized mowing team?
Agree with Eva Marie on the Steven L. Carter book for rhhardin.
All of his books are good.
planetgeo said...
Meade, I think you've got the makings of a great country song here..."I fought the lawn, and the lawn won."
Cuttin' grass in the hot sun
I fought the lawn and the lawn won [x2]
HOA was mad because it hadn't been done
I fought the lawn and the lawn won [x2]
The mind reels.
I’m going to guess that Meade has convinced several of your neighbors of the benefits of push reel mowers, and they have brought them over to be sharpened.
If you don’t budget a new mower, the lawn budget gets cut. A real cut, not a cut to the lawn rate of growth either.
Thank you, Peachy.
I've been rewatching Homeland. The first time, I thought it was great, but also thought that the conduct of the intelligence agencies involved was a little far-fetched. Now I think they sanitized what really happens.
Remember Marie Antoinette brought the cake out in her reign.
Rory said...
“Tom Sawyer had a bunch [of mowers], too.”
A modern day mower
Mean, mean stride
Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride
(Jamming)
No, his mind is not for rent
To any god or government
Always hopeful, yet discontent
He knows changes aren't permanent
But lawn care is
(More jamming)
the vice president, who was the former national security advisor who is targeted by damian lewis's character?
No one has got it yet.
Clue: All the mowers belong to us but only three were bought by us. I’m saying us because one is the one that I bought on my own before I met Meade. Only one of the Fiskars mowers was bought by us.
I would like to help Fiskars…
Other people upgraded or moved out and were going to throw away perfectly good mowers?
Wedding presents?
You inherited from some deceased garden store owner?
Now that the migrant lawn cutters have been removed by ICE, there’s a need for red blooded American citizen grass cutters. It might be the start of Meade Mows Lawns. The extra mowers are for the high school kids he’ll employ.
FYI. Project Farm Best lawn mower blades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROcZWx9_0jI
Was this part of the parade on the 4th?
I normally don't read the comments on Althouse, because too often they are just Trump ditto-heads yelling in agreement with each other in an echo chamber, but I really got a kick out of these comments. Keep it up!
Gerda is on the right track
Dull blades make enchanting mower gardens.
I love Fiskars blades.
fiskars is a quality brand. I use their pruners and loppers
Orphanage for unwanted mowers
Does Meade tell the other mowers he has a favorite?
When it comes to grassy Border Control, mower is better. Meade sez Mow America Green Again !
There is no unique combination of the sources so there are multiple solutions. Ann had one before marriage and one fiskar and two odd balls were purchased after marriage. So the three left are owned but not purchased by “us”. They could have been bought by Mead or acquired without being bought by mead before marriage. Or acquired without being bought by “us” after marriage, or Ann before marriage.
We have no information as to why they were acquired. To guess:
1. Acquired for future resale after appreciation.
2. As capital equipment for a mowing service.
3. Spare parts.
4. To start a push mower museum.
5. To reduce the need for maintenance and resharpening.
6. A problem with letting go.
7. The yard has seven different cutting conditions and instead of readjusting the mower seven predjusted mowers are kept.
8. A chop shop for stolen mowers.
Inga said...
Now that the migrant lawn cutters have been removed by ICE, there’s a need for red blooded American citizen grass cutters. It might be the start of Meade Mows Lawns. The extra mowers are for the high school kids he’ll employ.
7/8/25, 4:05 PM
WOW!! Imagine that!! American workers doing America's work!! What a concept!!
This week, in a very special episode of Hoarders...
CLUE: There were 3 more as well, all 3 were not bought by us and 2 were Fiskars. We no longer own these.
The ones that Meade bought include one that he owned before he moved here and 2, including one Fiskars that he bought after he moved here.
The Fiskars mower costs at least $250. What’s going on?!
The ones we didn’t buy were acquired free.
Have the Fiskars been fixed, and has the fixing of the Fiskars been fisked?
with apologies to Tom Smothers, "Mowers always liked you best!"
Have they acquired sentience?
Maybe some were on the premises when Althouse moved in.
Meade has opened a repair shop
Inga blathered...
Now that the migrant lawn cutters have been removed by ICE, there’s a need for red blooded American citizen grass cutters. It might be the start of Meade Mows Lawns. The extra mowers are for the high school kids he’ll employ.
Wow this must be the most pathetic self-own I've seen her since the good old days of Garage Mahal! Now we don't even have to point and laugh at Dinga's moronic, vapid hackery-she does it to herself for us! =)
You're opening a push mower museum.
Push mowers thru the decades.
We all managed just fine without Crook Joe's open border.
It's fun to say Fiskar.
I-nag - the hive racist... assumes only brown people mow lawns.
RHHardin: Steve Martini
CLUE: This is not a commercial operation of any kind. No exchange of money has taken place or will take place.
Aggie is kind of on the right track.
Is Meade the Fiskar Whisperer?
You lend them out to neighbors?
You secretly own several acres of land. To keep in shape - Meade spends a great deal of time Push-mowing various acres of various grasses... and various types of edge work.
Meade, like myself, checks out neighbors who are moving to see what tools they leave behind. I've gotten mowers, numerous rakes and shovels, etc., by just looting the trash.
We had a Fiskars reel mower that was perfect for our small townhouse lot, until a strain of very thick Bermuda grass started taking over our lawn. I couldn’t get the mower through that patch even with a running start. I replaced it with an electric mower.
I also check out my neighbors’ sheds when one moves. I had enough grill size propane tanks to go into business for myself.
Meade is getting broken mowers from neighbors, fixing them, then giving them away to others. He’s scavenging parts from some mowers to fix others.
He's scavenging the mowers for parts?
A blended family, which then spawns the smaller half sibling-mowers.
I'm enjoying this thread more than I have any business to.
“ Meade is getting broken mowers from neighbors, fixing them, then giving them away to others. ”
This is correct!
Meade is finding mowers that people are putting out to the curb as trash. He knows how to fix them and the people who are throwing them out think they’re just no good anymore… or so I infer. And he does give them away to other people as you guessed. Very good!
I think Fiskars ought to know that people are getting highly frustrated with these expensive mowers. They’re touted as working really well, which they do when they’re new, but there’s some kind of maintenance that’s needed to keep them going and people aren’t doing that. They’re just throwing them away. Meade has collected so many in just a few blocks around our home.
Maybe some people are reading this who put their Fiskars mower out to the curb and are now frustrated to see it completely restored to its proper working order. Be assured that your rescue mower has been or will be rehomed.
oh!
"Maybe some people are reading this who put their Fiskars mower out to the curb and are now frustrated to see it completely restored to its proper working order."
Because going online and asking "How do I fix my Fiskars mower?" is too much trouble?
If he sold them all he could afford a nice lawn tractor.
When I think of America and its bountiful resources…
"The Fiskars mower costs at least $250. What’s going on?!"fall in love with the idea of a reel mower. Then reality sets in on a hot day in June.
Quality costs.
People fall in love with the idea of a reel mower and then a hot day in June comes along and they find out it's work.
"He knows how to fix them and the people who are throwing them out think they’re just no good anymore… or so I infer."
You are correct. The vast majority of window air conditioners you see on the curb are just dirty. Give the coils a good wash and they work fine. The same goes for gas mowers. It won't start because the owner left gas in the tank all winter and the carburetor is varnished up. Clean the carburetor and off you go. That goes for any gas powered lawn equipment.
Most of the mowers I have owned in my life were throw-aways from people who preferred the idea of a brand new lawn mower over repairing their old one. In just about every case it was just a matter of cleaning the carburetor, putting in a new plug and sometimes a pull rope, et voila! A perfectly good lawn mower.
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