My brother cut the back yard a week and half ago with the manual reel mower but it needed another cut and with the snow/sleet/rain on the way through the weekend I figured I better get out the mower. I filled it with gas, primed it and it fired up on the first pull. I'm bummed that the back yard took a wicked hit during the winter with snow mold damaging half the yard. I had reseeded in the fall since it all died off pretty bad over the summer. With all the rain we had in the fall, it grew like crazy and I was mowing right up until it froze solid the weekend before Christmas. But the new grass has such a high moisture content the snow mold can take hold if the snowcover lasts as long as it did. I hope it comes back, but the portion that didn't get the mold is growing like crazy right now. I'll be mowing from now until it all dies off in July like normal.
Hey, at least I didn't put the boat in the water yet and have to worry about shoveling snow out of the boat!
