Rover the Lawn Mower

Shortly after Chris and I moved in we bought a push lawn mower at Urban Ore. Neither of us wanted a gas one, and because we don't have very much grass, we figured a push mower would be enough to tame our front and backyard. We were wrong. From the beginning it didn't cut very well, it got stuck in divets REALLY easily and it was generally just a real hassle to use.

We didn't want to sell out though. Having a gas lawn mower pollutes, you always have to have gas around, and they smell pretty bad. But we really needed one that WORKED, so we didn't know what to do.

Enter Rover. We has scoped out some electric lawn mowers when we were looking for our grill, but held out. But, when our grass in the backyard reached knee high and the weeds in the front started REALLY getting out of control, out of respect for our neighbors we decided it was time to bite the bullet and get one.

So over the weekend we went to Sears to seriously look at lawn mowers. The electric ones seemed really cool, so we GOT ONE! The only down side is that it has a cord :( The ones a bit higher up on the price scale can be charged and then run sans cord, but we didn't want to pay that much. Plus, we figure vacuums have cords and those really aren't that big of a pain, so this shouldn't be too bad either. And, it felt good getting an electric one because we won't be polluting :)

Last night Chris broke Rover out

And we both took him out for a spin

He's an excellent addition to our family :) And, he works GREAT, I recommend one.