Vroom!

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I want to start out today's second post just thanking God!

Last summer, I wrote some stories about my tractor and the mower deck.  I hooked up said mower deck to cut the grass in the back yard today.  It was longer than the front and still too wet to gather up properly in the grass catcher, so it was the ol' cooter bug to the rescue.

The last time I ran the mower deck, the mower didn't seem to quite run right.  So I adjusted the carburetor IAW the instructions I read on the interweb.  Um, maybe that was a bad idea because I spent the rest of the summer thinkin' it was gonna need a carburetor job.  Naw.  Just turning the mixture screw the other way fixed it today when I hooked up the mower deck to the cooter bug.

Vroom!  One back lawn mown.  Tomorrow, I have to go over it with the Toro and clean up the clippings.  But I had fun playing my own version of NASTractor!  Vroom! Vroom!

Why do I call the tractor "cooter bug"?  I'll put a photo at the end of this thing and you can figure it out yourself.

So I own this chain saw.  I haven't used it in, oh, I don't know how long.  I try to take care of the things I have and running the gas out of things with engines is something I try to do.  I was a bit freaked out today though because I haven't used this thing in three years and it still has gas in it.  I'm gonna need it for the weekend so I tired to fire it up and, praise God! it started right up!

Vroom!, but a handheld vroom, so maybe a little v.  But boy, is that chain dull!

The lawnmower fired right up.  I changed the oil in it and added fuel and it started on the second pull.
Vroom!

Oh, the sound of vroom!  That can only mean one thing!  Spring is here!  Now I gots to borrow a tiller again this year so I can get the garden planted.  And buy a chain for the saw.  And get the truck back from the kid.  And then I can get busy pulling weeds.

Oh, if you need some ground cover, bring a shovel and come get all the snow on the mountain you want before I fire up the other thing I own that goes vroom!  That would be my Ryobi trimmer.  I had to buy a new engine for it last year, but it's ready to go!

As promised, here is a picture of my tractor, albeit without the mower deck.











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