Mowing The Lawn

As these guys get older, we have been expanding their chore lists a bit.  his year, Gavin has been asking to be able to mow the lawn which is an interesting proposition.  On the one hand, its great to not have to do it myself but on the other we have a gas powered engine that is rotating a huge knife that he would be pushing around.  We decided to give it a chance and we slowly worked him up to pushing by himself.  He needs to get a bit more strength to clear the uphill sections but actually did a pretty amazing job.

After a while, he was off on his own with some still relatively close supervision.  He makes an extra dollar for each time he mows the lawn.  Unfortunately for him, our grass seems to grow kind of slowly because I ration water a bit to it.  He has already dreamed of a lawn mowing empire as his Uncle Zach once had...