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[mamajoan]

Yesterday after it had snowed a bunch, I saw my next-door neighbor pushing his snowblower. I was looking out the window and could only see him from the waist up -- i.e., I couldn't actually see the snowblower, just its handle -- and for a second it looked like he was pushing a lawn mower.

Wouldn't it be great if they made a machine that was a lawn mower in summer and a snowblower in winter? That would be so freaking cool.

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[flick.livejournal.com]

My parent's old next door neighbour had a sit-on lawn mower with a snow plow attachment

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

I'd buy one! Heck, I'd buy TWO!

What a brilliant idea; and it would leave more room in the garage.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

LOL! If you bought two, wouldn't that kind of defeat the purpose? :)

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

*G* - You should see the big ass totally DEAD riding mower that is presently entombed in the garage. Where it will be until I can talk somebody into hauling it away, because it died and it's so damn big I can't move it out of there by myself! If I could get rid of Dead Mower, I could probably put four of your combo thingys in there and still have room to get the car into the actual garage.

Ah, the joys of home ownership. Just the other day, I stopped to chat to our neighbors, as Mr. Neighbor was out clearing the snow from his driveway (so he could wax the driveway - they are kind of anal) and I happened to say something like "I'm going to start working on my yard as soon as things thaw for good this year," to which he replied, "Wow - are you going to mow it this year?" *G* Smart ass...I should let it sit again just to spite him, except Annie will kill me if I do that.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Heh. Was he at least good-natured about it, or totally snarky? My mom has some REALLY obnoxious neighbors out at our summer cottage who are always giving her crap about how much she mows, or should I say doesn't mow.

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

He was being good humored - he even told me that if money is still tight, I can borrow his lawn mower any time I want this summer. I don't know whether that's being basically nice or if he just can't bear looking at my "wheat field" waving around again, but either way - I might take him up on it, if I can't find a good, used mower for sale.

I've lived next to folks, though, that are like your Mom's neighbors - when we rented a row home when we first came back east, one set of neighbors were the kind who would literally measure the grass at the edge of the sidewalk with a ruler.

[psu-jedi.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be great if they made a machine that was a lawn mower in summer and a snowblower in winter?

Patent/trademark/copyright (or whatever the hell you have to do in order to get all the moeny!) that idea, baby! Seriously!

Trust me...my mom wishes she'd done the same thing decades ago when she said, "I hate putting the damn lights on the Christmas tree! Why doesn't someone make the artificial trees with the lights already in them?"

We'd be freakin' millionaires by now...

*sigh*