New mower

 On Monday the new mower that I purchases was delivered to our house.   I had been researching them for a while and finally settled on the one that I wanted and got it while it was on sale and got free delivery to top it off.   I decided to get a Sears Craftsman mower because of the price as well as the last mower I had in Summerville before we move really was very reliable.   I had it for 2 years and I only had one small part that I had to replace.

Our new yard that we have is a lot bigger than the yard we had in Summerville so I chose to step up to a 46” mower with automatic transmission and it also has the tight turning radius as well.

About 4 hours after it was delivered I couldn't resist the temptation to try it out on our lawn.   I have to admit I love it.   The way it rides and cuts and turns is so much better than my old riding mower.   

  

Just as I was almost finished the happiness came to a sudden stop.   I was down at the bottom end of the yard and it suddenly stopped moving.  As hard as I tried to get it to go forward or reverse it just wouldn't go.   I noticed that there was a small plastic fan that was laying on the ground behind the mower.   I shut the engine down and pushed it up the house.  I was mad for sure only having it a few hours and then it stop working!   I got on the internet to find a phone number to call the Sears warranty, I found that they had a online area to chat with someone.   I was shock and happy that they were able to schedule a repair person to come out the next day.   The repair person came out the next morning and took a look at it and knew exactly what had happened.   He pulled out the battery and box to expose were the fan had broken off.   The fan is supposed to help cool the transmission but more importantly it is designed to also keep the drive belt from jumping off the pulley.    He thinks that either during shipping or at the factory the belt got stuck between the pulley and the fan, he said that this was the 2^nd time is a week that they have seen this happen on our area.   He put the belt back on so that it is able to drive while the new parts are on order.   I was very happy with the service that he gave; he even walked me through some of the special futures that the sales person didn't show me.  It makes me glad that I bought it from Sears.  

Peeps in the house

We are off to a new adventure.   Yesterday we went to the local farm store and purchased 4 baby chickens.   We each picked one out that we thought was cute and brought them to their new home.

The girls and I had made a coop prior to that.  I under estimated the time it would take to make it by a few hours.   The last few days I had been researching on how to make them and what would work best for us.  With them being as young they still have about 5 weeks before we can put them outside.   Because of this I wanted to make a coop suitable for using inside but yet also work for the outside when they are old enough as well.   We went to the hardware store and gathered our supplies and set off to construct it.   The girls were big help holding the wood as I sawed it to helping hold the boards together as I nailed them.   We had purchased a roll of chicken wire and that was sure time consuming attaching to to the 2 x 4’s, but we did it!   I’m sure it was quite a sight 3 ladies jamming out to the car stereo on the back patio putting it together.   In the future we will need to make a house to attach to it for the nesting boxes.  We will have a few weeks to make that though, it will give us some time to better prepare.

Now we need to name the Girls.