Mower Repaired

Coker, Alabama

Weather: low 48 degrees, high 80 degrees, clear skies

We got an early start this morning, walking out the door at 0730 hours. Our first stop was at Lowe's to pick up some parts for Terri's riding mower. Then we went down to MacDonald's to get a bite to eat. Next was a stop at WalMart (my favorite store, if they don't have it, in most instances, I don't need it) to buy groceries. The only thing that we don't like at WalMart is the beef. It seems washed out to us. Since we needed a couple pieces of beef for meals that Carolyn is fixing this week, we went next door to the Food Max. This store doesn't have much better meat than WalMart, but we found enough to finish our shopping.

After shopping, we went out to Terri's to start the day's work. As though shopping is not work. I performed the repairs to the mower and got it running. It is doing a great job, and I even got a good bit of the yard mowed. Tomorrow, I will try to finish the mowing and start weed eating. I thought this yard work thing was over when we became fulltime RVers.

After the yard work is caught up, we will start the repairs to the house so it can be placed on the market. We took a large number of pictures today so we can track our progress on the repairs.

Terri and Thomas have three German Shepherd dogs. They are some of the friendliest dogs you will ever meet, and they have a very friendly disposition. Their favorite game is to get someone to try to take a stick from them (or a rock, or anything they can hold in their mouths). As soon as we drive up, here come all three dogs, holding rocks or sticks or tree limbs that they want us to try to take away from them. If you try to take the objects, you are their friend for life.

Another game they like to play is to chase the lawn mower and drop sticks in front of it, or try to bite the discharge chute, or try to bite the tires. I finally gave up trying to get them to leave the lawn mower alone when I was mowing. They seem to have a one track mind when it comes to the mower. One of them bites the tires and almost gets thrown for a loop, and comes back for more. Goofy dogs, and this is the first time I have ever seen dogs chase a mower like this.

More later, be safe.

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