Lawn Mowing Time Again

Well, spring is here or at least very close. I've had to mow my lawn twice already!
We live in a nice Coeur d Alene neighborhood. Not a cookie cutter subdivision but a neighborhood with nice sized lots and a mix of older (20+ years) and newer (ours is 10 years old).
Our house is on a large lot on a corner as you come into our neighborhood. It's in what I refer to as the "Pole Position", the 1st one seen by everyone coming around the bend in the road.
I like pole position. I work hard to have a nice looking lawn and flower beds. In a couple of more weeks the flowers will get planted and the added color will be nice. Being on the corner I have large area that takes a lot of flowers to fill up so once they are all planted and blooming the look is quite dramatic for those folks driving into the neighborhood.
My Dad passed this onto me because he always had the best looking lawn in the house we grew up in in Pasco, Wa. He was disabled but could get around the yard easily so he was always working to keep it looking nice. He passed away almost 20 years ago and to this day I miss going over to his house and mowing his lawn for him.
Some people may call me weird but I mow my lawn a different direction every time. It is better for the grass and and I always alternate the mowing pattern to make the grass look cool in a major league ball park sort of way! I never butcher it too short either, keeping it a little taller makes it look better than being scalped the way most of my neigbors do theirs!
I've mowed straight lines, diagonal lines, checkerboard lines and wavy lines on the 4th of July that look like a flag in the wind. It's a guy thing I guess!
The style of our house is such that is has an old-fashioned wrap around porch that when all the hanging baskets and flower beds are blooming and the yard is deep green and trimmed nice and neat, she's a real beauty......One to be proud of....Nothing better than being out front and watering the flowers on a warm summer eve and have neighbors or even strangers stop and tell me how nice it looks. That's something I like.