Summertime Blues
But only around this site.
In real life, earthquakes aside (USGS event link), it’s been a pretty full dance card kind of summer. Work continues apace. Marcia and I get out fishing when we can. Georgia Aileen and I get out for a daily 2.5 – 3.0 mile walk: our current pace is around four miles an hour, which is a pretty brisk walk. The front yard continues to delight, with flowers of some sort or another in nearly continuous bloom.
We got our money out of the mower that came with the house, and not one cent more. That old mower, a Cub Cadet GT 2544, would take me 3.5 hours to mow the whole yard at the best of times. Biggest part of the problem there was the high center of gravity and relatively narrow wheelbase – that made picking my angles for up and down the slopes in our yard an interesting proposition.
So last month we shelled out for a new Cub Cadet ZTS1 50 mower. Now I can mow the whole yard in about an hour and a quarter. Woo! And … Hoo! Compared to paying for a bi-weekly lawn service, my ROI should be about 3 years. That’s a win, too.
Back again, sooner or later.
