BACK ON THE ZEN MACHINE

Thank you all, from the bottom of both our hearts, for the sweet comments the last couple of days.  We'll go back and reply soon.

Now back to regular farm/yard stuff.

I checked the fruit trees and bushes, including the "wild pear tree" and all was good.  No damage and only two pears on the ground, but that could just be the tree shedding a few as they ripen.

After the rain last week, guess what?  We had GREEN!  OK, not a lot, but it did mean that I could mow...for the first time since the end of May.  I pushed the mower out of the shed, jumped on and turned the key.

CLICK!

CLICK!

Dang it, I didn't think about that happening. It hasn't been driven for a couple of months.

I removed the brush guard on the front and lifted the engine cover.  Everything looked ok, wiring tight and everything still connected, no creatures living inside so I figured it had to be the battery.

You may recall that a couple of Christmases ago,  2nd Man bought this for me...

It's the HALO Bolt, portable battery charger and air compressor.  I've used it numerous times for airing low tires and I've used it to jumpstart a friend's car once and a strangers car in a parking lot.  I figured it should work on the mower too so I hooked it up, waited about 30 seconds, turned the key and I was back in business!  The Zen Machine was back.

*and score another point for a great Christmas gift!

Here, you can kind of see the grass and how it was during the mowing...

...and here it is finished. The weather was hot but there was actually a nice breeze.

I didn't go the full time or distance but that's because there were still areas I could skip because they were brown and not growing.  I also skipped further toward the front of the property where I got the mower stuck in mud a couple of seasons back.  With rain a few days before, I did not want to go through that again.

 

Here's another view, as you can see, it's greened up from just the three inches of rain we got.  Another reason I mowed is because we have more rain coming.

Here's what it's supposed to be like Thursday night at 7pm.  LOTS of rain as a front pushes through.  We need the rain, but please just let it drop and move on through.  We don't need flooding.