The Mowing Pros

27/05/2026

It's currently raining out, so I figured I'd share another story while I wait for the rain to stop. As I mentioned in a few other posts, this is my 15th year in business. This story was from my 2nd year in business.

When I was starting out, I used to mow overgrown lawns knowing how badly they damage the mower and engine. I was the new guy, so anything was better than nothing. Pretty much "I'll take what I can get".

So anyway, I pull up to the house and know her lawn was overgrown. I already stopped by a few days prior to get a quote for her, so I knew what I was getting into. I was using a Toro Timecutter zero turn, for anyone not familiar with those, it's a residential mower and NOT meant for commercial use. Again....2nd year in business so affordability was my main concern when buying equipment.

I unload my mower and begin mowing the front yard. About half way into it, I hit something, I see white dust come out of the mower chute and my eyes started burning. Confused and in pain, I walked to my truck and flushed my eyes with water. The customer came out, apparently she saw me hit it, and asked if I was OK. I said yeah, I was good, but went to go see what I hit. She then told me "It was a bag of fertilizer. I had some weeds I wanted to get rid of so I dumped the whole bag in that one spot". Yup. The. Whole. Bag. And it wasn't the smaller bag either, it was the bigger bag. Almost 40 pounds worth.

So after that, I finished the front staying away from the fertilized area, which after hitting it I noticed it completely burned out the grass, but it was hard to see because it was so overgrown. I muster on and drive to the back yard to tackle that grass next.

Towards the end of mowing the back yard, I hear a loud WHACK and out of the corner of my eye I see a silver thing fly through the air with red mist. Now what did I hit? I powered off the blades, got off the mower and went to where the silver thing was. It was a full unopened can of tomato soup.

After I finished, I loaded everything back onto my trailer, collected my money and left. I drove off confused, eyes still a little burning and my mind spinning wondering what the heck just happened.

25/05/2026

We're closed today in honor of Memorial Day. 🇺🇸

19/05/2026

I'll be out mowing in today and tomorrow. Finishing with and then later in the week. Sign up today to get on schedule this week. If you want to hold off another week, just sign up Thursday or Friday to be on schedule for next week. www.themowingpros.com See your instant price and sign up online within minutes.

10/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there! Today is not just Mother's Day, but it's a reminder to get those vegetables planted! Spring is here, the weather has been great and everything is growing! This week we'll be in Bethany Beach and Ocean View on Monday's and Tuesdays, then finishing up in Ocean City and Ocean Pines mid to end of the week. Sign up today to get on our schedule! www.themowingpros.com

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28/04/2026

The website is back to working! https://www.themowingpros.com/

Sorry about that! It's been extremely frustrating but happy to say it's working again!

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27/04/2026

Website Update! Hoping to have it back to normal by tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed! I changed hosting sites and in the exchange my security certificate was removed. It's been beyond frustrating, but hopefully it will be back to normal tomorrow.

27/04/2026

I've been having some problems with the security certificate on my website. I'm hoping to resolve it as soon as possible. If your trying to sign up, just know I'm working on it and hold off from signing up until I have it fixed. If you have any questions, or need to be mowed this week, please email me [email protected]

21/04/2026

This is a fun one I mow in Ocean View Delaware. I enjoy mowing it because it always stripes nice in the Spring and Fall. Its not double cut, I rotate cutting patterns each week.

17/04/2026

Another story from the past! It was around 2012 or 2013....I was working a full time job and mowing lawns after I finished work every afternoon. I received an email from a guy who's house was along my mowing route. He wanted a one time mow, but wanted to call/email me whenever he needed it cut and ONLY wanted it cut and trimmed. He said he DID NOT want me blowing off the clippings, just leave them. I thought that was very odd. He explained he didn't want it on a regular basis because he was mowing it too. I took it as he wanted me to mow it the weeks he couldn't. My thought was maybe he goes out of town for work or maybe a busy work/life schedule. Not a big deal at all. But again, to not blow off the clippings from his driveway/walkway? Very odd.

Every now and again he would let me know he wanted it cut, but always said "just fit it into your schedule whenever you want". He was very easily to deal with and would give me a weeks notice so I could fit him in. Worked perfectly for me.

One day, he emailed me and said to fit him in, so I did. The next week I went to mow and he was home, sitting in a lawn chair and drinking a beer in the middle of the afternoon. I pulled up and he laughed and said "you caught me!" I asked what he meant...and he explained why the odd request.

His wife would tell him to mow the lawn, so he would. He said there were times he really didn't feel like mowing it, so he would email me to do it. The reason for not blowing off the clippings was to make it look like he did it and his wife would never know. 🤣

I only mowed it a few months after that and never heard from him again. I think his wife caught him.

12/04/2026

Didn't get to your lawn this weekend? Its OK! Sign up today and we can have you on schedule to be mowed this week! www.themowingpros.com 👈 to see your instant online quote and sign up. Have a great week!