Ok, I get it..

So usually during the spring/summer we have some people come mow or lawn. We started doing this because I decided to help Mike out one weekend and mow the back lawn but failed to see the huge metal rod stuck in the ground. :) I ran over it with the mower and split the blades completely in half, it sounded like someone was doing a drive by at our house, I think I even dropped to the ground to miss the bullet. hehe. So I broke the mower and we couldn't afford a new one, so we had these people that do them pretty cheap do it for us and then we realized how nice it was not having to do it and they did it for so cheap! So we have had them do it the last 2 years (and yes, we know that after 2 years of paying them, we could have saved for 4 mowers)Well, now that I am unemployed, we figured we shouldn't be paying someone to do it when we can do it ourselves (we would just use the mower he uses to do his friends house). So today he went and did her lawn and then came home to do ours. Oh goodness, it took us 4 hours for him to mow and edge then to sweep, etc, when it normally takes the other people we have do it like 15 mins. 4 hours later, Mike and I were like ok, we totally get why we pay them to do it. :) Oh and another thing that was pretty funny is that the bushes Mike has been having to clip the last few days so he can spy on the dogs next door, I had to cut all of those up today too and fit them all into trash bags. I filled 2 bags with those things. I was so worn out afterwards. I'm like ok, let's figure out something else for us to act like we are doing to check on the dogs! hehe. It did feel good to be all productive and domesticated though but I don't think my back agrees. :)