A Day Long Affair:

I hate mowing the lawn - I know that many of you have heard me ramble about my dislike of this household task. I suppose that most of the dislike comes from the equipment that I have to work with. I can’t complain too much, I guess, this riding mower has “saved money” for my parents... but I think it is time to retire it.

We finally got it back from the Amish dudes that were fixing and gave it the test run today. One thing that is not a deficiency of the mower other than faulty design... the opening for the grass shoot is not very wide so the grass ends up building up and clogging the blade... which in turn causes the mower to stall.

Because I was running off very little sleep (due to the recent procurement of a PS2 and Kingdom Hearts) and being woken up this morning by Christianne trying to steal my wallet (She was afraid that if she shook me that I may react with a right hook... it’s only happened once...
and that is a different story all together.), my level of patience, which normally has a reserve amount of energy, were quite depleted.

In a moment of frustration, I grabbed an empty Slimfast can out the recycling box and a roll of duct tape and rigged up the Slimfast Edition custom Snapper expansion kit. It was quite the sight.. not just the mower, but me on the mower as well... sleeves rolls up, fresh out of bed hair, my Guatemalan jungle knife strapped to my back for those annoying weeds that stick out of the edge of the lawn.

I was like Rambo out there... except not ripped... ok, and I didn’t have a large machine gun or any grenade either... no red bandana or long, curly, stringy hair...nor did I save the world from the distant reaches of some unknown jungle... but I did have a big knife