the nicest lawn
Mar 18th, 2010 by tortoise
So every night she’d go out there and comb the grass, getting all the knots and tangles out. She had to use a wide-tooth comb in order not to break the delicate shoots of grass as she combed; she’d learned her lesson the hard way there.
She found the most interesting things in the underbrush, pennies, sometimes, small bits of refuse. Not really interesting to your average person, mind you, but then your average person’s lawn isn’t parted down the middle and nicely combed to one side.
She could tell the average person about how to comb grass. You couldn’t just put the comb in and pull like it was a rake, you know. You had to place the comb in gently (she used to sometimes have to pull some of the blades of grass between the teeth of the comb until she realized she could brush the grass down first using her arm, then position the comb right at the base of blades of grass), then gently, but firmly pull through, shifting the comb ever so slightly back and forth as you pulled up. And you had to plan your sections well, too. No point in doing the same section twice because you didn’t plan an exit strategy when you first started combing.
What she wanted to work on next was design planning.