20250327-1847. Welp, I managed to mow the front yard lawn after breaking off the right rear red-colored adjustable height lever. I wedged the broken piece between an opening where the wheel would normally be mounted and up against the offending/sheared-off piece. That’s worked off-and-on as I struggled to restart the lawn mower via already slightly broken red-colored starter button whenever the motor died from being forced to mow-down the lower than expected tall lawn from last week! This happened maybe a handful of times while the PGE dot com construction workers were stationed on the “Rue”, which is northwest from our corner lot.
I usually start my mowing in the first of three section nearest the driveway and then proceed to the second section nearest our front porch and then lastly to the third second in between the first two. I mow in a counter-clockwise direction to give that “eyeball” design from the outer edges of each section and ending somewhere in the middle. The third section is where my “eyeball” design is noticeable from close-up but I’m NOT too sure about from far-away.
But because the damned lever kept popping-off and because I have to squat and struggle to force back my make-shift wedge using the broken off piece, the height of my front yard lawn was much lower and revealed the drier more yellowish and light greenish bottoms portions of the hidden grass! The motor would constantly cut-out because the broken-off piece kept popping-off! I was pissed-off at GOD and those demons. Fucking idiots!
Anyways, the struggle too longer than expected as I stopped after the first two runs. I had to bring the damned machine to the backyard and try to repair it. I also ordered but canceled a similar but new lawn mower, because both rear wheels would be totally flat against the surface and there was NO way to push the mower when it’s just stuck and dragging!
After I used the almighty duct tape to anchor successfully the broken off piece against it counterpart and after I finished-off mowing the front yard lawn, I went indoors to see if I could have the damned thing repaired per my dad’s request earlier. While I failed to get a claim which was NOT approved and denied, my dad took longer than expected also to complete sweeping up the grass clippings.
I had used the electric blower VERY quickly because when using the high speed, there is approximately ten minutes of battery power. So I had to blow off some grass clippings trapped in between our black chain link fence and some fluffy brown seeds from off the side walk and onto the northwestern planter strip and then further onto the curb and/or gutter, where I further blew-off towards the awaiting piles of yellow flowering oxalis ground covering and other plant life forms that an elderly Oriental guy would dump (illegally) with his red wheelbarrow onto the city’s street nearest the adjacent/northwestern-facing area of maintenance of the Chinese neighbor living directly behind us.
Then I hurried to recharge the dead lithium ion battery pack for my green-colored electric blower, hose-down my broken lawn mower and then dry-off with my electric blower (after the battery pack was fully charged), prepare lunch, cut dad’s hair, take my much-needed shower, do one load of dark clothes laundry, distill one liter of municipal faucet water, archive my files of mostly screenshots from over two days, restart the router several times due to my cameras by gulag kept going offline, and blog some more here.
Now I’ll have to prepare our late supper. The time is 1911 PST. End of transmission. P.S. I managed to just remove the duct tape because it failed after it got wet from hosing down my broken lawn mower and opted just to wedge the broken piece against its broken counterpart without duct tape. Amazingly, this holds but at the number three setting instead of my preferred and higher wheel setting at number five. FFS.
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