Early-Morning Lawn Mowing

It's genuinely beautiful to live in a house the backs directly onto a public park, but the nicest things have their drawbacks. This morning I discovered one related to having a park as one's back garden. My alarm had not quite gone off when I was jolted awake by the roar of a giant ride-on lawnmower directly outside my window. This was not just a temporary disturbance, either.

The park runs through the centre of our entire neighbourhood and actually curves around the side fence on the west of our house as well, so it was pretty much non-stop lawn mowing for the next hour--throughout my morning prayers and my shower. Oh well. I don't reckon that the park will get mowed that often considering how severe the drought currently is. And I still like having the park directly outside my window.