Our lawnmowers arrived today. Gogo likes to hang out with the Go (Khmer word for cows). Laum told Pheak to water the grass, so he stood in one place for 20 minutes with the hose. Lawn care is a foreign concept, so I've given Laum many lessons in this area. I explained that you shouldn't water in the middle of the day. You can't make piles of sand on the grass. And you also can't just dump big dirt clods down and think something will grow. One time Hans got really upset about the look of the lawn, and he exclaimed, "They have no common sense!" I wanted to ask him if he had ever seen a lawn in Cambodia, and point out that perhaps Laum was not the one lacking common sense regarding this issue. But I played nice.
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