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Started the morning with my favorite kind of work, mechanical.\u00a0 Question:\u00a0 how to get the mower deck off the lawn tractor.\u00a0 It is, I recall the salesman saying 14 years ago, “A snap.”\u00a0 Well, he should have been here.\u00a0 Nuts and bolts, screws and hammers don’t respond well to my ministrations.\u00a0 If it can be done the easy way–a snap–and the hard way–my way–guess which I end up pursuing?\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 Same deal with the bagger.\u00a0 So easy.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 The best that can be said is that, in the end, I figured out that the easy way was also the only way to get them off, but it took a good while to realize that.\u00a0 Plus some words I wouldn’t use in a polite blog.<\/p>\n
After that, hooking up the new wagon to our 15 year old Simplicity was a snap.\u00a0 No, really.\u00a0 One cotter pin, insert bolt through wagon tongue and tractor hitch and away we went to the 5 cubic yards of shredded mulch.\u00a0 A few pitchfork moves later I was back in the front yard delivering shredded bark to Kate who toiled away in the vineyards (literally) of our long untended front flower patches.<\/p>\n
Much better than the wheel barrow method I’ve used all these years.\u00a0 I took the weeds back to the woods and put them in their very own pile.\u00a0 Nice.<\/p>\n
After the nap I’ve spent time recovering wooden steps and slabs from eroded sand, sweeping, piling, that sort of thing.\u00a0 It’s hot, but not too bad outside.<\/p>\n
All this in service of the upcoming Woolly Mammoth meeting.\u00a0 We have visitors out here twice a year and this year they came within two weeks of each other.\u00a0 Great planning on our (my) part.\u00a0 Well, I shouldn’t say in service of the meeting.\u00a0 This work really prompts us to do things we’ve neglected over this year and they’ll stay done for a while.\u00a0 One of the many positive functions of friends.<\/p>\n
More meeting related work later on, too.\u00a0 Groceries.\u00a0 Start cooking. (helping Kate) Cleaning furniture.\u00a0 Those sorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Grandchildren Moon Started the morning with my favorite kind of work, mechanical.\u00a0 Question:\u00a0 how to get the mower deck off the lawn tractor.\u00a0 It is, I recall the salesman saying 14 years ago, “A snap.”\u00a0 Well, he should have been here.\u00a0 Nuts and bolts, screws and hammers don’t respond well to my ministrations.\u00a0 … Continue reading A Snap. No, Really.<\/span>