Wow, just played your game... I've tried many games of this jam and with this I can finally declare jam a "success". Altogether we covered pretty much eveything! Now about your game. I loved the vibe, I also read other comments and for me it is strange that noone mentioned Murakami, while for me it was the main reason that sold this game for me. I've read(listened) only two of his novels, just finished "Clockwork bird chronicles" not long ago, not sure if you've read it, but it totally fits this game and your writing, like the bit about being good at something small before big things. So for me writing was big part of this game. First person game is kinda traslates that experience of reading a book from first person perspective. And I just couldn't help wondering what that housewife though of at the end of the job when she had a nostalgia moment.
About actual mowing, never done it in my life, it is very uncommon in our country and I didn't get that lifting it helps to turn, I was playing on keyboard and did a huge circles to turn, like two-three meters in radius which was obviously unacceptable to clear a rectangular area, so what did I do? I mowed backwards! Yup you go forward to the wall, then change angle a bit and do next line backwords until opposite wall - it was a fast way, totally non realisic, but working method!