2012 - Oh NO!!!

What's left of my tulip.  Someone... ate it and left me the roots.  I was so disappointed.


 Also, with all this nice weather and rain, our grass is as tall as it gets in the summer.  I charged up our mower and plowed down more than a third of our yard before the stupid handle broke at the point where it connects to the mower unit.  The grass is almost a foot and needs mowing desperately.  I haven't had the chance to find a replacement part and fear I will have to break down and buy another mower, which isn't a bad idea.  When the grass gets tall like this, I need two mowers to get the job done.  So a second one wouldn't be a bad idea, but the funds are gone and a three hundred plus dollar battery operated mower seems so out of reach.  I hope I can find a replacement part.  After all this sucker has already lasted  four seasons!  I am impressed.  I got this one with money left over from our house closing in 2008 and bought it at Home Depot for $317.  It was a good investment.  No oil, no filters, no gas.  With gas prices these days, I enjoy plugging it in overnight and only mowing for forty-five minutes with a great workout.

Bummer.  What a trooper too.  My lawn is bumpy and very thick.  No wonder it fell apart.  I have to lift and pull and tug and whack it around to get it to cut my thick grass.  Sometimes mowing over it three times before the grass is shortened.