I need to buy a lawn mower.  For years, I've wanted to use a
reel  mower,  manual.  Something  about it  appeals  to  me-
several things about it I guess.

Since I have an opportunity and  a reason, I think I'm going
to try  one out.  Tomorrow, perhaps, I'll  go see  if anyone
sells them locally. There are  a few obscure hardware stores
that just  might, and the  "big box"  stores may as  well, I
don't really know. If that fails me, there's always Amazon.

It's a  different subject,  I guess, but  I have  two pocket
knives that  I use  regularly. While  it's not  necessary, I
enjoy sharpening them frequently,  generally after 1-3 uses.
I don't  sit there grinding  them down,  but I do  wipe them
over a  diamond stone a few  times to make sure  the edge is
good.

One of  the things that excites  me about a reel  mower- and
this may be idiotic- is that I  will get to keep it sharp. I
guess I could do that with an electric or gas rotary cutter,
but with a reel mower it's different.

Now if I only enjoyed lawns,  that would make it even nicer.
But the  lawn is there, like  it or not, in  the house we're
trying to buy, and there's no reason to let it go to pot. In
fact,  there  are several  reasons  to  make sure  it  stays
trimmed (bugs, bugs, and bugs.)