I was telling Pam about a recent improvement that I’d added to mowing the lawn:

I’ve always liked to keep the mower’s tracks parallel to each other. More recently, I’ve taken to mowing diagonally to the property lines. One week I’ll mow north-west to south-east and the next week, I’ll move from north-east to south-west.

The front lawn and the side lawn are separated by our driveway. To keep the tracks parallel on both lawns when I’m mowing from north-west to south-east, I start on the front lawn, sight on something on the far side of the side lawn, and start mowing. After that, I mow beside the lines that I’ve already done.

This all falls down when I’m mowing from north-east to south-west. There’s no point where I  can draw a straight line from north-east section to the south-west section because of intervening gardens and whatnot.

Luckily, I remembered that my phone has a compass app…

This is where Pam interrupted with “OMG!”

…and I could use that to take a heading of say 210 degrees, note whatever 210 degrees points at, and start moving in that direction. Then I’d repeat for the other lawn. Easy peasy.

The only thing left to figure out was when you’d say “OMG!” when I told you this.

 

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