Look what we found when cleaning out the basement! An old school manual lawnmower, the kind you have to push that runs on pure people power. There was an article in the paper a month or so ago about more people buying manual lawnmowers, and I was telling my husband perhaps we should get one. He agreed that it was certainly environmentally-friendly. As we have other things we need to get now for the house more important, we set aside the idea as something we’d get sometime in the future. Then lo and behold, we had a push mower in the basement all along!

The house we live in is his grandmother’s house and basically the basement was a storage area of old things from his family. That’s why we had no idea this was even there. It’s rusty and we didn’t think the blades would work without being oiled and sharpened first, but they cut the grass fine. It’s not as heavy as I thought it would be but it does take some effort to get it going, but once you start pushing it takes up the momentum. It’s great exercise, too. Out of curiosity I put on my exercise heart/calorie monitor, and my heart rate stayed between 125 and 140 for the twenty minutes I mowed part of the back lawn with this.

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