Dogs of C-Kennel by Mick & Mason Mastroianni for August 28, 2022

That’s the story of my live. My lawn tractor is DOA at the repair shop, and the small mower refused to start today. Some of the grass seed heads are three feet tall.

Haven’t got it running yet? Then get a push mower, lazy bums! https://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/is/images/direct/5b80661449a4a60027df102bb0acca4ae28e020b/American-Lawn-Mower-14—Inch-Push-Reel-Mower.jpg?impolicy=medium

And since you took so long to begin, start with one of these: https://youtu.be/RGNTYPmeLXk

Very clever!

It’s a jungle out here…

Whoa, thought it was a nightmare

Lord it was so true

They told me don’t go walking slow

The devil’s on the loose

Better run through the jungle

Better run through the jungle

Better run through the jungle

Whoa, don’t look back to see

Thought I heard a rumblin’

Calling to my name

Two hundred million guns are loaded

Satan cries, “Take aim”

Better run through the jungle

Better run through the jungle

Better run through the jungle

Whoa, don’t look back to see

Over on the mountain, thunder magic spoke

Let the people know my wisdom

Fill the land with smoke

Better run through the jungle

Better run through the jungle

Better run through the jungle

Whoa, don’t look back to see

Sideways this week.

A blind man could see that….

Have to say that’s one nice thing about the drought, no need to mow for months because there is no grass. The rain last week ruined that.

A word to the wise to Mason and Mastroianni, and if they know what’s good for them, they’ll pay heed:

There is a cartoonist (one of the worst) named Tom Batiuk, who draws two pieces of total garbage titled “Crankshaft” and “Funky Winkerbean”. Several times a year, he runs “sideways” comic strips that we have to risk pulling a muscle or two in our necks in order to read them on our computers (we don’t buy papers that have the strip, or this wouldn’t be a problem, nor do we look at it on a smartphone or tablet). We have made how we feel about that in no uncertain terms, without using swear words, how we feel about that, which is that we HATE it!

So, if you want to avoid a similar reaction here, promise us that you will NEVER AGAIN produce a “sideways” strip!

Actually, all you “need” you do is wait ‘til winter, then it dies back “naturally” – that’s what I do here in New Mexico. I have my front area mowed twice a year, just to keep the cacti down – and I don’t even have to do that if the “monsoon” season kicks in soon enough and the native wildflowers start growing to please my wife – we’ve got quite a crop of sunflowers out front at the moment and she doesn’t even want the “weedwhacker” run. Oh, happy day!

That lawn is pass mower time.

My yard for some reason does not grow in uniform lengths, so some weeks I just weed eat the high places and then it all looks even, high but even.