The past few days of work have been nothing short of frustrating. First I tried to mow the lawn at Veteran's Memorial with a push mower. The lawn is so overgrown that it was up to my knees and thick as a jungle. Each pass I made the mower would stall because it was getting clogged with the clippings. I was the only one around that day so there was no way for me to get different equipment, so instead I just called it a day a little early. Also the lawn is not your traditional east coast flat backyard. It is hilly, rocky, half alder saplings and wild rose with very few flat grassy areas. So the next day I was able to get a weed eater to do some trimming before mowing or in place of mowing. That is another story in itself. I am used to a weed eater that has the string you pull out and clip off, but this one just has pre-cut inserts that are spring loaded. It took Chris about 15 minutes to load them the first time and only about 20 for me to snap them off, there I was trying to fix it again and had to get help just to have them break again. But this time Chris was gone and I was on my own to try and figure this system out, after about a half hour of messing around with it I gave up once again. At this point I was covered in grass and bugbites and one unhappy girl to be around. A few hours later when Chris returned I realized I was making a simple mistake and trying to load the string backwards. Now that we have the figured out hopefully I will be able to clean up some more areas around the park without wanting to throw my equipment in the ditch.
As frustrated as I may have been, the warm Alaskan evenings make everything better.
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