The rain is nice and all. It makes the grass grow green, which would be fine if you had to mow my lawn but do you? No, you do not. I have to mow my lawn which means it would be just fine with me to mulch the whole fricking thing and be done with it. Until you have to start pulling weeds, but there are ways to get out of that too.
Ok, so the volume of grass to be cut is limited, I grant you, but I have been endowed by my father with a distinct distaste for outdoor chores. That’s not the same thing as outdoor activities like gardening. The garden is fun. The yard is necessary. Or it is necessitated by those bastards who live next to me and cut their grass. They are making me look bad.
What else would I do with that time, though? Probably not much. Watch PBS or something. There is the crux of the problem with chores. Once they are done there is nothing more to do. Crossing everything on the list off only leads to more list making. So the best thing is to not finish the list in the first place. You sleep much easier at night that way.