PS: Forgot to answer your "how big is the yard?" question. Both the front and back yards are roughly 45' deep and 65' wide. After deducting a driveway, sidewalk, patio, planting areas and three oak tree trunks, there's enough grass for about 25 minutes of mowing. The edging, weeding, trimming and sweeping take longer.
Also forgot to mention seeing a whitewing dove chick hopping along the bottom of the fence as I mowed. It could get airborne for only a foot or so at a time, so it scurried mostly by foot to a hedge to escape the oncoming lawnmower. Glad it wasn't a bluejay chick .. Mama Bluejay would've buzz-bombed me if it had been.
Justin
