I’d love to mow my lawn, but after the first time I did it this year, the belt broke. Got a replacement, but haven’t tried to put it on until yesterday. It’s the first time I’ve tried to replace. After some thinking and consulting the internet and the book, I figured out what I need to do. Then, I broke a wrench taking one bolt off. Switched to the ratchet set and got the other three off. Went to put the belt on and it was waaaaaayyyy too long. Look at the book again and saw my error. Replaced the bracket that had the 4 bolts and tried to take off the bracket on the other side. Two bolts were easy, the other two are surrounded by mower deck and bracket parts. Too tight for the socket the way it is now. I need an extender, and I don’t have one. I guess the grass isn’t growing too much these days.
We’re trekking up to Marinette/Menominee to pick up some supplies and drop off plants with my in-laws. We still have ~300 unsold plants in our bedroom staying warm. Maybe I can talk my dad into giving me one of his spare ratchet sets so I can finish up the mower.
Still tons of brush/tree cutting to do, and the brush already cut needs to be piled. Tilling is all done – until my wife decides she wants the corn area tilled “one more time”.
Then it is putting up fencing for our birds. Hoping to have the ducks and geese in two separate areas with some sort of water area for each.
Besides that and the lumber work, next big goal is clearing and organizing the barn and workshop. Between the junk they left behind and the junk we brought with, we could have a very nice workshop along with a ton of junk.
All of this is complicated by money. We thought we had a done deal to “sell” our old house through a land contract, which would give us an immediate cash injection and take away half of our overall mortgage payments. Then, my wife finally got in touch with someone that knows something at our lender. She said they normally can’t authorize a land contract to terminate a loan like ours (through the VA). I can’t see how they would object, so it has to be federal regulations. She said she’d work on it to see what she can do. Just more stress in an area that was becoming less stressful.
Did anyone see the science fiction themed P&G caches outside Winneconne are up for adoption? ~80 of them. I’d take them over but I haven’t been that far east in may caching yet.
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