Mowed the yard

Well this is the earliest that I've been able to mow the whole yard... except where the "pond" is in the back yard. Of course it was not without a slight glitch...if you remember from my previous post, I wondered what was in store when I mowed the front yard. Well, things started well and mowing was fun and I think I'm the first on my block to mow... it's a tad early. So anyway, I had been mowing for quite some time and it started to sprinkle a bit, not much just enough to be kind of fun. I had stopped for a second to move a stick and when I was back on the mower and letting up on the clutch peddle there was this low pop sound. I let all the way up on the clutch and wasn't moving like I was expecting to be...I was in gear ect. Well the belt had some how come off the pully and the rain was picking up a bit. So not wanting to crawl around in the grass in the rain I pushed the tractor into the barn as fast as I could... Once in a dry location I began to fiddle around with the belt and managed to get it unstuck. So there's a little back story around this drive belt, it broke during the winter plowing season and upon going to sears noticed they don't carry this part. So I went to TSC and managed to find one relatively close... ok so once installed it was quite tight and the clutch pedle wouldn't come back to the drive position... but upon streching it worked good enough... basically I got and 84 inch belt and I think an 85 might work better... Now this is a new belt and upon inspection I noticed a small superficial cut, no big deal... well upon further in spection I came across another cut...this one 3/4 of the way through the belt....ugh. So of course I put it back on and so far I've been very gentle and was able to finish mowing the yard today. So tonight we'll be at Kimmy's parents watching Dr. Doolittle 3 I think... and I'll be playing my father in law in several game s of ping pong. He's quite good...ok he's an amazing ping pong tanlent... we'll play 30 some odd games and I might win 1 or 2... but never two in a row. Until last time we played... I won the last two games we played. And he wouldn't play me a third as he didn't want to risk losing three in a row.... I' won't mention that we played 20 some odd games and I might of worn him down a bit by the end. So anyway... I've got to find a picture to include with this... enjoy.

Jared

This is a picture of Mykenzie after I taught her how to climb up the walls of a hallway something Eric and I use to do in the door jams. After teaching Mykenzie how, I tried to show I coulds still do it ... lets just say the drywall needed a little repair. Oops.