My friend Prudi, who is the gardener at the Lenca and harvests and sells his own coffee, fruits and veggies and pollos (chickens) around the region, came over to help me cut our out of control lawn. Our lawn had been the topic of some serious colonia (neighborhood) chambre (gossip) as of late, with many a neighbor and passerby seriously judging the lazy gringos, whose back and front yard, at some points, reached neck level. People also told us we should start expecting corral snakes in the yard if we kept the grass! Enough said… It was time to regain our gringo dignity. Prudi came over with two machetes, we put on some ranchero music and got to work. As you will see in the above video, the man is a machine. He could mow down a section with one swing, while it took me four or five. We got quite a bit of street cred as neighbors walked by watching the gringos and their hired profesional do work! I hacked and sweated, Tiggies raked and laughed and Prudi swept through the yard like a tornado. I also impressed the neighborhood with my sexy yard work outfit. A good day and a great sense of accomplishment after mowing our lawn Salvo style for the first time. We even had that freshly mowed (chopped) smell afterwards!
Much love,
Daniel
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