The story of DH and his Lawn
DH mows the grass.
He is the only one that mows the grass.
When we first moved in together, I mowed the front and he moved the back. Only, he didn't really mow the back. Summer in FL. It rains and rains and rains. That means the grass grows and grows and grows. At one point he hadn't moved the grass for 6 weeks and the grass taller than our dogs. Every time I let them out I would have to brush all the hitch hikers off of them.
I don't nag. I figure he is an adult and an adult can see with their own two eyes when something needs to be done. I was so so wrong. Finally, I asked him when he planned on mowing the lawn. This turned into a huge fight that lasted most of the evening. I moved out not long after (for a lot of reasons).
When I did move back in with DH, I told him that we need to hire someone to mow the grass. We can split the cost. Nope...He will do it.
FF 3 years and we buy a new house. A new house that must be on a double lot because of DH's stupid boat. That means we have a big beautiful yard. Full of grass to mow. We moved in Dec 23. DH only had to mow the lawn a fews times prior to summer. When I got my tax refund, I offered the money to DH to purchase a riding lawn mower. It was more than enough to get a top of the line mower. Nope. He had to have a new boat motor. New boat motor was the most important thing. Yada Yada Yada.
Well, here we are. Smack dab in the middle of blazing hot summer. Where it rains pretty much every single day. The grass is just loving it and DH is just hating it.
He keeps complaining that I won't help mow. Nope. I wanted to buy a rider, you wanted a boat motor. AND there are two kids inside the house sitting on their asses doing nada. SS is 5'7 145lbs and SD is 5'5 135lbs. They most certainly can help mow.
My mother most certainly did not mow the grass when she had several able bodied children in the home to do it for her.
Lying in bed last night and DH said he going to have to mow the front lawn soon. I didn't say anything. He's a victim of his own actions (or lack of).
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I get this!! In Louisiana it
I get this!! In Louisiana it rains almost every day and we hold water like no other. We have over an acre and pay 100$ a month for it to be cut once a week with edging! The best deal ever since the average subdivision half lots go for 40$ a week. But DH knows the guy and his wife. Well about a month ago I told DH we needed to cut back on spending like eating out and snack runs. So he decided all by himself to cancel the lawn man. I was furious when he told me when I asked they didn't show to cut our yard that week. A week later and our grass was as high as you described and our dachshund would be hidden from us. I ran to my brother borrowed his push mower and brought it back to DH and told him good luck. It was so high it kept dieing on him. It took him three hours just to do the front of the house then he quit and came back to me and said he'd call the Lawn Guy back after lunch.
Men...always have to go the hard way round.
At least your DH learned.
At least your DH learned. Mine just wants to complain.
But I am nice and bring him mugs of ice water and towels to wipe the sweat...And then I go back in the A/C.
LOL this is so funny.. I just
LOL this is so funny.. I just went ahead and started paying someone to mow the lawn, which in turn, TOTALLY demasculates DH... He absolutely hates it. Everytime the lawn guy comes, he feels like he needs to hide so the neighbours don't see him "paying someone else to do the man's work" He gets really upset LOL i don't think i'll need to pay someone for much longer.
I want to buy my DH a riding
I want to buy my DH a riding mower, he tells me, not yet, he's not THAT old.
But he's injured and refuses to let me have my brother (who owns his own LAWN service) mow our lawn.
So, DH mows it and is then in pain for 1 or 2 days. He can't do both the front and back in one day, because of his injury. He hasn't been doing the weed eating, which really aggravates his injury, so our yard (backyard, especially) still looks unkept. It's frustrating, to say the least.
Our weed eater stopped
Our weed eater stopped working so I made the skids cut the grass around the front driveway that the mower couldn't reach with scissor's. Took them a whole 3 minutes. DH was very upset about that. LOL
DH promised he's be the lawn
DH promised he's be the lawn guy when we moved into the house.
The entire first year I hired a lawn service b/c he didn't do anything, in spite of having a lawn mower (electric so no muss, no fuss) in the garage (that I bought for him btw).
He mowed/weed whacked once this spring, then nothing.
I called the lawn guys, DH overheard and was all put out I was doing that. My response, "It needs to get done, if you don't I'll take care of it my way."
He recently mowed again and week whacked! Not super great, but it worked - he bought a weed whacker! He is also working on taking out a patch of plants we don't want and he's promised to work on the compost bin (he's been neglecting it so I make sure nothing goes in unless it's active).
I'm hoping his momentum continues...I simply don't have time for doing all I do PLUS the yardwork. I can to things here and there but he's got the time. And the SDs? Help? Bwhahahahahaha!
DH mows our lawn.. but it's
DH mows our lawn.. but it's not like it's a huge deal as we mow about 5 acres but have a zero turn. He usually does 1/2 one day and 1/2 another day. We do have a large garden though with raised beds that have to be mowed around and it has to be done with a push mower. If I didn't do it, it wouldn't get done. I just look at it as good exercise. lol
DH taught BS7 how to drive the zero turn last week. I about fainted when I walked out the front door and saw it and was not happy about it at first, but DH only let him mow the flat parts and he was right there watching him. BS7 actually did a great job and is excited to take over the mowing responsibilities.... some day. Why in the world does your DH not ask/pay one of his lazy kids to do it???
Because they "don't know how
Because they "don't know how to".
Yeah, because they haven't been taught yet.
I was mowing neighbors yards for money when I was younger than SS. He also won't make them help when he took down a huge bush tree thing that was in the back yard. Kept asking me to help drag limbs into the front yard but refused to tell the kids to come outside and help. I guess they don't know how to do that either.
wtf? How hard is it to walk
wtf? How hard is it to walk behind a mower? What exactly do they need to know "how" to do??? lmao
Granny, I remember one summer
Granny, I remember one summer I flipped shit on DH. We were in the process of staining our deck.. DH and I did a lot, but we have a huge deck and I work full time and DH has a neck injury, so only so much we can do. So one Saturday, we are out there staining and DH paid a buddy of his to help us.... while SD who was 16 at the time was slumbering away in her room at 1:00 in the afternoon.
I asked DH why the fuck were we paying someone $10.00 an hour or help us stain the deck when there was a perfectly capable person right in the house???? He actually looked at me, kind of shocked, like the thought had never occurred to him. :?
What pissed me off as well, was the fact that she NEVER offered to help. We'd get 7 chords of wood delivered and she'd just sit in the house while we stacked it all, never bothered to offer.... hell BS7 actually comes out and helps!!!!! When I was a kid, if I saw my mom and dad working had at something, I always asked if they needed help, or just jumped in and did what needed to be done.
Obviously we were all raised better than these snowflakes.
Our cul de sac is pretty much
Our cul de sac is pretty much older couples in their 50s and 60s. When we moved in I noticed the wives mowing the grass across the street and on both sides of us. I laughed and told DH not to get any ideas.
We live in the same kind of
We live in the same kind of neighborhood. We were walking the dogs a few weeks back and one of our female neighbors was mowing the lawn. DH said, "Must be nice". I said yeah, I bet her husband didn't have a problem making their kids help with the lawn when they still lived at home.
The only time I ever mowed
The only time I ever mowed grass was 35 years ago when I was single and living in a patio home with a small strip of grass - and I only lived there about a year. And I think I found someone to cut it for $10 fairly quickly.
But my DH is a great cook so I can't use that excuse. But I am too so we share the cooking duties.