Saturday morning happenings

So I woke up early this morning eager to start the day, 6:30 AM early. This is what the O’Briens and the Ferbers do on the weekends. But I did not have to feed a baby. The reason I woke up early was that I actually got sleep last night. It was the first night that I was able to sleep all the way through without coughing and hacking and then finding amazingly stupid movies on cable at 2:00 AM.

So about 8:30 I figured I would mow the yard. Little back ground, about 2 months ago my mower decided it would not start. I tried to figure it out, I had a good suspicion the fuel filter needed to be cleaned. Well, dang if I could find the filter. So I hired two brothers to mow my yard. Let me tell you that it is nice to come home and the yard is mowed. So the only regular exercise I got, I was paying a couple of teenagers to do it for me.

About 2 weeks ago, I figured I should just take the mower in and get it fixed. If they said it was not worth fixing I figured I would just buy a new one. They got it working, the mechanic said the fuel screen was clogged. No wonder I could not find the filter, I should have been looking for a screen. And I think they even gave it a waxing. Nice!

So this morning the mower won’t start again. I mess around with it for a bit and decide that I had resorted to getting a new mower a couple weeks ago and today I would be buying said mower.

I bought it from the shop up the road, helping out the local guys. Let me tell you the works great, it sliced through the tall grass like butter. Only complaint is that the self-propel is a bit faster than I walk. Hey, I got short legs and they move slow.

Did not want to spending a bunch of money this morning, but I really don’t like it when things won’t start.