Sunnyside Homestead

I didn’t finish mowing on Sunday – it was just too wet all weekend and when I finally got around to it Sunday evening I ran out of light.  This meant I was excited to return home on Monday and get finished, so excited that with about 4 passes to go in one area I shifted into reverse with the mower blade still on.  For those of you that don’t know – lawn tractors come with a safety feature that has them cut out when you shift them into reverse if the blades are still going.  In my haste to fix the problem I tried to shift back into forward and all that shifting around caused the deck belt to slide and fall and catch – the long and short is that I broke Ed.

I know belts are replaceable, I know he won’t stay broke -but I haz a sad 🙁

– Siobhan

Today was my first day back to work since the move, and Siobhan’s first full day back. We were up at 5am and I was at work by 6:30.

This is not going to be easy to keep up, but it’s entirely worth it.

I cleaned up half of the perimeter of the garage/shop and the dog run today, using our new leaf blower/mulcher/vac.

There are a lot of leaves here.

Siobhan cut the grass today. Two and a half hours on the mower, with a huge grin on her face the entire time.

We also got the clothesline up and put our first few loads of laundry outside to dry. Now that we’re out of the ‘burbs, this included underwear for the first time.

Victory is ours.