Yesterday I raced to get the mowing done before the rains began. We had a fairly heavy dew, and then some light mist early morning, so I waited until about 10am so at least some of it was dry. I managed to mow the whole lawn, although it was really tough going thru the places I hadn't mowed before. I was going to use the gas mower for the drainage areas, but since I already had the battery mower out, and had changed out to fresh batteries, figured I might as well try it. The battery mower struggled, but no more so than my gas mower would have, so I was happy. I was even happier that I managed not to nick any rocks with the blades!
After mowing, I turned the mower upside down and scraped as much of the wet grass from underneath that I could. After going thru the contortions of hooking up my hose reels to the outside spigot, I blasted the underside of the mower to get the gunk out from all the crevices. So, after a total of about 2 hours, the chore was done.
It seemed as if I had finished just in time as the skies got even darker (I was not under threat of sunburn even while mowing as the skies were dark), and the clouds started spitting mist again. That only lasted for a couple of minutes, Then it dried out and we saw some afternoon sun which made the temps run up from low 60's to mid 80's. I woke up about 12:15am to the sound of a sudden down-pouring of rain that lasted about 1/2 an hour. Looking at the rain gauge, I got about 3/4" in that time.
It looks as if it is dawning to mostly clear skies this morning. However, we are supposed to have a week of unsettled weather, and mostly cloudy skies, so that is probably a false promise.
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