This is Rita the Ride-On Mower or 'lawn tractor' as some of us ranch-types prefer to call them. Rita has had a hard life and we put her in to the Lismore Rural Buying Service (a local hardware/farmware/gardenware cooperative - kinda Bunnings without the bling) for a reoonditioning soon after buying Maryville (Rita came with the property).
I've mowed the lawns twice now...looks like I'll be doing them once every three weeks during the summer, and it takes me about 5 hrs, spread across two afternoons. It's mostly fun, but the few acres that I cut is somewhat sloping and it's not until you are saddled up on rita's seat that you realise the degree of angle that some of the ground slopes.
We also have a push mower that we then use to do the edge work and go around the plants we've put in, altogether more finnicky stuff that Rita is just not interested in. She's a bit rough, is our Rita.
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