Not much to report on really. Friday night we hit the movies (see review below). Saturday was spent at the golf course (where my uncle and I both shot personal bests) and hanging out with a quick trip to the casino where we lost our $10 each in about 45 minutes and really the same was done on Sunday (minus the casino and the wife who is down in Boston, so it was just me hanging out all day).
It used to be that when he wife was gone, I would lay around the house all day watching sports/movies and gorging myself on all the fried food I can inhale. Oddly enough, I was actually somewhat productive today (the lack of sports on might have something to do with that) but I did run into one problem. It's my lawnmower. It doesn't want to work anymore. More specifically, it'll turn on, run for like 10 seconds before a gray smoke starts coming out of the exhaust, then die like 30 seconds later. I switched out the fuel, thinking that maybe some oil got in with the gas or something, but that didn't seem to work. So because I'm not exactly mechanically inclined, I have no idea how to fix it. I think I'll just go buy one of those old school push lawnmowers so I don't have to worry about the engine or gas or anything anymore. The thing is though, the lawnmower is only a year old, so I really need to figure it out and fix it.
Thankfully I have nothing else to right about as America's Funniest Home Videos starts in like 5 minutes.
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Old-school push mowers are around $100. Actually taking your mower to a repair shop and having them fix it is probably closer to $40-50. Lawn mower engines are very simple and there's only a handful of things that could have gone wrong, it won't be that big to have someone fix it.
And I don't care what the purists say, the push mowers don't come close to doing as good a job cutting as a gas mower ...!
Scissors are the true old school lawn cutting method. Can't be beat. I highly recommend it.
Would a couple of goats work?
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