Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: I’m afraid to mow my lawn because of the bees

I have a vexing household problem right now, and I don’t think it’s one that Heloise can solve.
Like many of you, I live in an ordinary suburban neighborhood filled with 1950s tract homes. And what’s nearly always in front of those homes? Lawns.
As a person who works at home, I hate Thursdays, because every single one of my neighbors uses the same gardener, so I have to listen to lawnmovers and leaf blowers from morning until night.
I don’t use these gardeners, even thoug