I need to go mow my lawn. Even though I feel like I just did.

I haven’t been able to get to it this week, and now it really needs it.

Most summers I can get by with not even mowing it once a week. But this year, with rain seeming to come every three days, it can barely make it a week without needing to be mowed.

And if you have a busy schedule, with work and other activities, it can be tough to get around to mowing.

I realize I am not alone. It is a common refrain. “I’m going to go home and mow,” is heard uttered every day. The sound of a lawnmower out in my neighborhood is heard somewhere almost every day.

I mow my yard and my neighbor’s yard. I do that with a self-propelled, walk-behind mower.

Then I also have this camp site that has a lot of area to mow, and I use a rider for that. On a normal year that grass turns a bit brown and only needs to be mowed every two weeks or so. Not this year. It is lush green and actually looks the best I have ever seen it in August.

So, I usually say I better go mow, either at home or at camp.

Or both.

Register reporter Kevin Mertens is the same way. He mows at home in the country, and mows a parsonage and a church cemetery. Sometimes we both say good night when leaving the office and add, “I’m going to go mow.” We have to work that mowing in around our schedules of covering evening meetings and weekend events.

Others, of course, have this same kind of mantra going, chanting “Time to mow.” There are some places in the countryside that have huge expanses of lawn. When we drive by, my wife, Pam, will admire how beautiful the place looks. My comment is usually, “Man those people must really like to mow lawn.”

Not all of them do. One local businessman in town who lives in the country has said he needs to mow more than once a week just to try and keep up with it all.

On days when I am not walking behind a mower and go for a walk in other places, including around the town of Blue Earth, I see there are some folks who are not keeping up. There are some places that have some mighty tall grass (and tall weeds).

Maybe no one lives there. Maybe they are on vacation. Maybe they are sick or having surgery. Maybe their old mower finally broke.

Or just maybe they got sick and tired of mowing and said to heck with it.

(On a side note, if you need a place to walk, try Steinberg Nature Park. It is absolutely gorgeous – all lush and green and full of wildflowers. The city boys have done an awesome job out there.)

I am trying to remember a year in my many years of life when I didn’t have to mow. I think there was one or two. One was the year my family moved from Colorado to Minnesota. My parents didn’t buy a house with a yard until after I headed off to college. And there was that one year after we were first married that we lived in an apartment in Enderlin, North Dakota.

I knew there was something strange about those two summers.

Anyway, I am also trying to remember a year where I did as much mowing as I am doing this year, and I honestly can’t.

Now, with all this complaining you probably think I hate mowing. That really isn’t true. I find it a good time to think about things, about life in general. Sometimes I think about how I need to find time to do some mowing the next week.

But for right now, I have to finish up this week’s edition of the Register and send it off to press.

And then, yes, I am going to go home sometime later today and mow. And then it will be off to camp I go, and do something really fun.

Like mow.

Of course, the other big issue is that when I do have time to go get the mowing done, it clouds up and starts to rain…again.

You probably have that same issue. Trying to get the mowing done in between storms.

If you are a person who does not have any mowing to do, well, good for you. But for the rest of you, I can just say, “Happy mowing.”

Maybe this is one year when I might actually look forward to winter and putting my lawnmowers away. Of course, then it is time to worry about snow blowing and shoveling.

Gotta run. That mower won’t run itself. Wait a second, don’t they make a robotic electric mower that does run itself?

Hmmm…