The Final Score

So today, on our first day, we got here and realized that our lawn was out of control...
The grass was no longer just your ordinary variety of graminoid.  It was taller than the smallest of my siblings and had weeds that were taller than xander... this was no normal lawn anymore.  This was
...
...
The Killer Lawn.


And kill the lawn did, on this first fateful day we spent all our daylight (and some of the night as well) trying to tame the grass.  It was a fierce battle that the lawn ultimately won casualties were high on both sides, but in this war of attrition the grass had the upper hand, there was simply too much of it.  Our ill fated first strike ended after only five minutes when the lawn mower was immobilized.  Yet we pressed on switching to weed whackers to tame this murderous beast.  After we ran out of the weed whacker cord for one of the weapons we realized that in the wake of our destruction lay a trail of grass that would only serve to fertilize the next wave of Man/Machine eating "usually herbaceous plants" (Wikipedia... note the USUALLY!).  So while a lone weed whacker forged ahead we began to rake up the limitless supply of freshly cut grass.  Unfortunately even this simple mop up operation was not casualty free and by the time darkness fell 7 rakes lay in waste on the battlefield.  We had accomplished approximately half our mission with only about 150-200 square yards remaining (Halfway).  Yet todays success had come at a heavy cost our second weed whacker's intake had been clogged by compacted grass dust/crud.  
With that we woefully retreated back into the house with numerous cuts scrapes and bruises. 

The Running Score:




Graminoid Interfector: 10
1 Lawn Mower
2 Weed whackerss
7 Rakes


The Family: 50%




Day 1 goes to the lawn....