These are my yard shoes. They are green. Know what that means? I mowed today! Yes, for the second time since we’ve lived in this house (6 and a half years). Now, you may want to know why this is such a big deal. Honestly, it’s not. Not really. But we do have a wicked hill in our yard, both in the front and the back, and so it’s not nothing, you know?
(There’s a Bald Man Edging the front yard—after I’ve done the hard part 
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Anyway, I’d guess the hill is about 6 feet up from the backyard, and ascends at about an 85 degree angle. The front is about 6 feet also, at about a 75 degree angle. You may be wondering, at this point, why in the world we would choose such a yard. We are daft, yes, but that’s not why. You see, when you buy a house in the midst of winter in the Midwest, and it’s the first house you’ve ever bought, you sometimes forget to consider how certain attributes of the house will affect your care of it in the season that you are not currently in. Oh well. Thankfully, I don’t mow it often. 
Well done! All that manual labor must earn you a candy bar!
I love your lush green lawn. That hill must be a blast when there’s a snow and even when there isn’t.
My boys used to call a part of our back yard Death Mountain. Now that they’re grown and I’ve started having to do my own mowing again, I can see why! Of course, in the winter they thought it was just dandy for a sliding down.
For the record, I’m walking backwards up that hill.
I know that hill well! Of course you’re my sister and brother-in-law. I mow my lawn with a weed eater too Cory!
Hsien: A brownie and some Breyer’s Oreo ice cream.
I think there’s a photo of me somewhere sailing down that hill on my tush at about 6 months pregnant. 
Rick: I was telling Bald Man, right after I mowed, how great it’s going to be when our boys are teenagers and can mow for us! Then maybe we’ll move before it becomes our responsibility again.
But the kids do love the hill when it snows!
Bald Man: Yes, we know, you are the man. And thank you for never expecting me to help mow.
Doug: The weed eater is a must for those angles that the mower can’t get! Except that the twine seems to constantly catch. Blah.
You see, in Central Texas a lawn mower is not necessary. The grass doesn’t grow. It’s mostly dead so all you need is a weed whacker. smiley face
Kerri, I am pretty sure that if you buy a house on a hill, you don’t have to worry about your basement flooding in the spring. I think it was a sound investment.
Kate: Too true. Not a drop in the 6+ years we’ve been here. Thanks for the “glass is half-full” perspective!