Mower Musings

Well today I mowed the lawn for the first time ever.  Yup that's right, never mowed a lawn before.  I remember "helping" my dad with the lawn, but never mowing it.  It just got WAY out of control and I couldn't see when Brent was going to get to it before my yard sale on Saturday.  It HAD to be done.  So whilst I was out there mowing, I had a little time to think.  As I mowed I was surprised by how satisfying it is to do this job.  All you do is push this vacuum like thing around and it looks so different and so "clean".  Then I got to thinking about the stereo typical "mens jobs" and "women's jobs"  and any job that I could think of this is the situation.  Mens jobs stay done, and women's jobs are perpetual.  The lawn, when it is done, looks good and stays done for  a week to 10 days.  Nothing can undo what you just did.  When a man fixes a broken door, theoretically the door stays fixed. :-)  When he washes his car, it doesn't NEED to be washed for another 2 weeks.  On the other hand when a woman cleans the kitchen (if she is lucky enough to do it alone and actually get it to a  point that she declares it clean)  with in moments someone will need a drink or a snack,  or runs through the kitchen with their shoes on and that is the end of that!  Laundry... you're dirtying some as we speak.  Why is this??? why were women deemed all the jobs that never ever get done...  RAISING CHILDREN... that's a big one!  They're really never done.  :-)  Just a thought, I wonder a lot about the old days and how things worked, and how people fell into certain rolls.  I am sure that there was no town meeting that declared who's jobs were who's, but it just made me wonder what it is about women in general that made us, millions of years ago, gravitate towards these jobs... or was it men in general that avoided them, and the women have ALWAYS been the ones to pick up the pieces?