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Retail therapy happens
Well, just got the weekend to go and that's the end of my week off. First half quite restful because I was bloody exhausted and second half more tiring because I did stuff. As in yesterday I went on a suburban road trip with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
leecetheartist who kindly allowed the use of her car for me to put things in. "Things" being my new electric cordless mower. It was a momentous occasion, being the first time I had gone anywhere in company for at least three months.
I was instructed in-store about its use first by a Bunnings guy and also a Bunnings rep who hung around to pass on esoteric knowledge like the fact you have to pull the mulching thing out of it or otherwise the grass catcher won't collect grass. Apparently folk have brought mowers back as defective because of this and he took a certain ruthless glee in pulling out a little black plastic thing and telling them that's it!
I had more to do today, so have only just gotten it out of its box and managed to put it together. And I've also charged the battery; thanks, Leece! I would have remembered after pressing the "go" button maybe a dozen times, for sure. The mower is a lurid green that absolutely will not get lost in any green found in nature.
The trip was great; we went all the way to the coast after we picked up the mower. I wanted to dunk my feet in the ocean and was lulled into false security by two tiny waves creeping up the beach. I went further in and the third wave got me mid-thigh. It is not really swimming weather right now unless you're a loon with a surfboard and a wetsuit.
The mental stimulation provided by an immense DIY warehouse [Bunnings] and then an even more vast Ikea store was almost too much after three very quiet months! The only places I had gone were my house, M's house, the gulag and the local shopping centre. Oh, and the library a couple of times once they reopened but libraries are not too great a blast upon the brain cells.
The Ikea trip was to look at their rugs, since I want one for my lounge room. Those tiles are feeling very cold at the moment. There was not room in the car to buy a rug then but I did want to get an idea about them before I bought one online. We were pleased to see that Ikea had sourced their rugs from Egypt. Definitely as good as Turkey for rug-making. That store is terrible for making you want things, like a new bookcase just the right size for the last space in my living room or that beautiful red recliner....No! No! Must stop. Thanks for reminding me it would go great with my red wall in the living room, Leece! :-)
Today was only a trip to town, but town has very much woken up and you need to do a sort of weaving dance around folks in order to maintain any sort of distance. So, situation almost normal. I needed to pick up a prescription, return books and visit Target to get a jug since my kettle does not play well with the stove and takes a very long time to boil water.
The manual for the lawnmower included the dire warning that said mower was not for use by persons with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities. This worried me somewhat until I saw that the manual for the water jug contained exactly the same caution. Classic :-)
leecetheartist who kindly allowed the use of her car for me to put things in. "Things" being my new electric cordless mower. It was a momentous occasion, being the first time I had gone anywhere in company for at least three months.I was instructed in-store about its use first by a Bunnings guy and also a Bunnings rep who hung around to pass on esoteric knowledge like the fact you have to pull the mulching thing out of it or otherwise the grass catcher won't collect grass. Apparently folk have brought mowers back as defective because of this and he took a certain ruthless glee in pulling out a little black plastic thing and telling them that's it!
I had more to do today, so have only just gotten it out of its box and managed to put it together. And I've also charged the battery; thanks, Leece! I would have remembered after pressing the "go" button maybe a dozen times, for sure. The mower is a lurid green that absolutely will not get lost in any green found in nature.
The trip was great; we went all the way to the coast after we picked up the mower. I wanted to dunk my feet in the ocean and was lulled into false security by two tiny waves creeping up the beach. I went further in and the third wave got me mid-thigh. It is not really swimming weather right now unless you're a loon with a surfboard and a wetsuit.
The mental stimulation provided by an immense DIY warehouse [Bunnings] and then an even more vast Ikea store was almost too much after three very quiet months! The only places I had gone were my house, M's house, the gulag and the local shopping centre. Oh, and the library a couple of times once they reopened but libraries are not too great a blast upon the brain cells.
The Ikea trip was to look at their rugs, since I want one for my lounge room. Those tiles are feeling very cold at the moment. There was not room in the car to buy a rug then but I did want to get an idea about them before I bought one online. We were pleased to see that Ikea had sourced their rugs from Egypt. Definitely as good as Turkey for rug-making. That store is terrible for making you want things, like a new bookcase just the right size for the last space in my living room or that beautiful red recliner....No! No! Must stop. Thanks for reminding me it would go great with my red wall in the living room, Leece! :-)
Today was only a trip to town, but town has very much woken up and you need to do a sort of weaving dance around folks in order to maintain any sort of distance. So, situation almost normal. I needed to pick up a prescription, return books and visit Target to get a jug since my kettle does not play well with the stove and takes a very long time to boil water.
The manual for the lawnmower included the dire warning that said mower was not for use by persons with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities. This worried me somewhat until I saw that the manual for the water jug contained exactly the same caution. Classic :-)
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I haven't used one with a cord, only a manual mower, but I understand they can be difficult. I was able to pick it up with reasonable ease, though I'm still learning how to manoeuvre it around. You hit the start button, holding down the handlebars and then keep holding the handlebars as you mow. When you let go, it stops. I thought that was very safe.
As for how long the battery lasts, I know they said but now I've forgotten. I guess it depends on the size of your lawn. Better ask the professionals that.
Its full price in Australian dollars is $399. There was a smaller one, I guess if you had a really small lawn that would work, but this one is the right size for mine.
I'm going to put up some pics of my lawn and the beautiful mower in just a moment. Photos always make the lawn seem larger than it is. It's twenty three of my strides long and at its narrowest, only three strides and at its widest, nine strides :-) I'm 5.5 if that helps!
Thanks for asking about it, btw! I just had an irritating conversation with my mother - I know, I know, no other kind - where she was zero interested in the mower and just wanted to know about the rug I was considering because a lawnmower isn't interesting.
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I can't see the photos you posted in the other post. I get an error message and that the photos aren't found on the server. :(
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Yes, not cheap, I do know. But nor is paying somebody to mow the lawn and it was that or keep using a manual, which is hard work on this lawn. You can't tell from looking at it but it's very spongy and the manual mower gets bogged in it.
Ryobi do have other mowers that would cost less, though and you get a six year warranty. If you can pass the IQ test of filling in the warranty form online :-) They tell you to get a cup of tea before you start to do it.
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