September 25, 2025
Day 1,455 of the Adventure
It's been four years since we basically moth-balled our old John Deere riding lawn mower. When we moved from the Marina Inn resort on our way to the backwoods property, we didn't really have any use for it, and honestly, it was in the way. Not to mention that it had a number of broken parts on it and we did not have time to mess around attempting to fix it. Recently, the grass has been growing everywhere down here, and the big brush hog is just too large and cumbersome to actually use to mow with. Between the broken hood, broken wires, bad battery and battery cables, lights not working, bent mower deck and flat tires, it was a little bit of a mess. I wasn't even sure it would start after sitting unprotected out in the weather for over four years. Not wanting to spend the time or money fixing everything if I couldn't at least get it running first, it became my most recent project. To my surprise, a new battery and battery cable along with some fresh gas, was all it took for it to roar back to life. As of today, most of the broken and missing parts are back on it and we're happy to have one more option for mowing and dragging things around the property. Next on the list is to fix up a decent sized, pull behind, dump-bed garden wagon with flat tires sitting up by the garden. This week has almost been too easy!
Adventure Quote: “There was always a way to fix something, no matter how broken it looked at first glance.” ― Chantal Gadoury
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