How not to do yardwork in the rain
Important lessons in yard care:
If you leave the yard untended for more than a couple of weeks in the tropical rainy season, don’t expect to be able to see the ground. If weeds weren’t fast-growing, they wouldn’t call ‘em weeds.
It is possible to run a weed whacker in the rain, as long as it’s gasoline powered.
Weed whackers can spin at up to 7000 rpm or so. At that speed, the tip of a 6-inch-radius trimmer line is moving at 250 mph. Learn to angle the weed whacker away from you so the spinning line doesn’t kick debris into your face. While good to know in general, this skill is particularly valuable when encountering objectionable debris such as giant African snails, fat caterpillars, and fresh dog droppings.
Adult giant African snails are hermaphroditic, and mate with their friends whenever they can. As a result, they are usually full of hundreds of bright yellow eggs the size of BBs. Snail egg stains are hell to get out of denim.
Rainy weather brings all the bugs and vermin out of their burrows and up into the grass, where they will flee in terror, in all directions, from the awful natural disaster that is The Man With The Weed Whacker.
You need two hands to operate a weed whacker. Unfortunately, this means that you will not have any hands free when terrified B-52 cockroaches, attempting to escape the devastation, fly onto your shirt and skitter across your neck. Resist the temptation to swing the weed whacker at them, especially the business end of the thing. This would be a Bad Idea.