Day 174

Yesterday sucked.  Today made up for it.  I woke up a little before 8.  I decided to get up instead of trying to get a little more sleep.

I started the wash, ate breakfast, and then went out to finish poisoning the environment.  Spreading the pellets around was a little bit of t pain because they weren't really compatible with the spreader.  But after awhile I figured out that rotating the handle backwards made things work better.

After that I went in and took a shower.  I wanted to get the stuff off me ASAP.  Also the pants I was wearing (from yesterday) reeked of herbicide.  When I got out of the shower I went to the garage and removed the fuel filter and spark plug from the mower.  I also drained all of the gas out of it.  Except for the fuel filter it was a pretty easy job.  Then I drove over to the mower place and got new parts.  They had everything and it was pretty reasonable.  They suggested an air filter, so I got one off those, too.

I stopped at Autozone on the way to the post office to get anti-seize.  I ate lunch at Don's Bar-b-Que.  It wasn't any better than the first time we went, and it was expensive.  I just wanted to see if anything had changed.

After the post office I walked the dog around Circle C.  She did 20 water retrieves, but the water was low enough that she walked about a third of the way.

When we got back I put the new parts on the mower and gassed it up.  It started and ran after only a little cranking.  Yeah!  I'm lucky it did.  The mower place has a 1 month backlog now, and it would have been way longer in the fall.  I probably would have had to buy a used push mower.

It was hot and muggy in the afternoon and I was tired.  So I went into the house and surfed.  Central Texas finally got the carbon fiber in stock, so I ordered one.  I've been looking for 10 weeks.

The evening was just surfing and TV.  I'm going to bed early.