Going Green

I'm not sure if this is a sign of going green, or going cheap.  When we bought our house 16 years ago, my father-in-law gifted us his precious Honda lawn mower.  This thing has been the best lawn mower I've ever seen!  Hubby remembers as a young kid going to the Honda store with his dad to buy this mower so it's been around for a while.  We have enjoyed it for 16 years but everything has a life span.  The Honda has finally gone on the lawn mower heaven.

There was healthy discussion about how to replace it.  Do we get the green and cheap push mower?  or another loud, gas mower?  Of course I liked the push mower idea the best but I felt I didn't have a leg to stand on with this position since I haven't pushed a lawn mower since I was about 14!  Honestly, they intimidate me. 

Hubby broke it out of the box last weekend and gave it a whirl around our very small patch of grass. 

It seems to do the job, although I think hubby felt like he was pushing one of these instead.