Push Mowers and Sling Blades

Reader Contribution by Arkansas Girl
Published on April 6, 2015
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Where I come from, people judge you by the way you dress … how neat and clean you are and more particularly, how you keep your property, especially the outside of your house. Since most people never come inside your house, they form opinions about you by how well you keep (or don’t keep up) your surroundings.

People would even laugh when they rode past a property that looked like it had been unkempt for ages. In other words, if it looked as though a vagabond or a tramp lived there. In my community, laziness was not a trait that was encouraged, so everybody worked hard to have a neat, clean yard scape.

We lived in a large but a not so attractive house, so the least we felt we could do was to keep the yard clean and the grass cut. Usually I did both of those chores, because I like to clean up and make things look attractive. Seldom did our parents do that kind of work. Normally, it fell to us kids, and I really didn’t mind.

I kept everything up off the yard that wasn’t supposed to be there, and the only things that I think should be on the ground are dirt, grass, pretty flowers, trees, bushes and shrubs. Anything else, including too-tall grass, is an intruding eyesore.

The old folks always said, “Keep the grass cut, because snakes like to hide in tall grass.” When I heard the word, “snake,” that was enough to make me pull out the mower and sling blade and get to cuttin’. So when the grass, especially in the back yard, got tall enough for me to hide in, I decided it was time to start whacking away.

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