Perhaps they were thinking that by bringing it out and letting it sit on the grass for a day or two the lawn might be less traumatized when it starts the actual mowing process:
http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/08/lawn-ornament.html I just thought it looked kind of cool - you don't see those manual lawn mowers very often these days (although I think they may be making a bit of a come-back in these environmentally sensitive times). Hope you like. Comments welcome. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.