Our Cub Cadet is Here!

   Our Cub Cadet garden tractor was delivered this morning.  Here's Jeff getting the lesson on maintaince...the when and how to change

oil and air filters etc.  (Come to find out the guy who delivered it is a distant relative of Jeff's mother's family!)  

And then it was a quick pass in front of the garden boxes and up the side of the house!  I wish I had been faster with the camera because the look on Wally's face when he drove by was worth a photo!  What do they say about a picture being worth more than words!  Now Wally and Jeff can have races on their lawn tractors to see who gets to the mailboxes the fastest!

   Jeff says the snow blower will be a job putting on but once it's on for the season it will stay on till spring!  The tractor came with extra weights in the back wheels and chains for them!  All we need is snow!  (But it doesn't have to come to soon!!)

    Fanny didn't care to come out and greet the delivery or inspect the tractor so I hooked Zoey up to her leash and then to Fanny's so she had 3 lengths of leash to roam.  It wasn't long enough for our puppy and she managed to get tangled up around a chair and the table leg.  She did some exploring between

the house and the garage but it wasn't enough for her.

  OH, no!  It's raining and Jeff's back inside!  Seems the tractor threw the drivebelt!  He's on the phone to the dealer right now!  The dealer is now on his way back here to pick it up.  He's going to have to change some more belts!  
  The guy from J.B.'s Small Engines in on Rte.5 was back in no time, loaded up our lawn tractor and took it away.  He just came back with it...with 2 new pulleys on the mower deck...and profound apologies. Seems something was put together wrong during the overhaul and that caused the drive belt to slip.  Nothing lost on our part.  Jeff is outside now mowing around the house, along the west side, across the

the house back, in the front.  He's done more in the last 15 minutes on the tractor than I could do with the walk behind in an entire day!  We finally have a back yard, again!  I am officially admitting it.  Jeff was right.  We needed the garden tractor/riding mower...just no one tell him I said so, OK?