Proactive

Last night I thought my mowing grass plans would be a wash out.  On the way home I drove through heavy rain, some as close as 5 miles from our house.  However when I pulled into the driveway things looked damp but not soaked.

After making the girls supper I surveyed the skies.  There were all sorts of menacing clouds around but the rain above our property had not materialized so I went out and hopped on the tractor.  I stayed dry.

I had a bit of a scare during the session.  When I started on the second mowing quadrant the blades all of a sudden stopped turning.  WTF?  Instantly the worst case scenario came to mind, now something else broke, something expensive for sure…..

After disengaging and engaging the PTO clutch several times I could tell that was still functioning.  I turned off the tractor and hopped onto the ground to take a look.  I immediately saw I had no tension on the belt that goes around the spindles.  The belt was still on the pulleys so initially I was like WTF?  After some more inspection I saw the culprit.  The spring that applies tension to the idler pulley broke at the one end.

Ok so this wasn’t a disaster but if I didn’t address it immediately I would be unable to complete the task.  I drove the tractor up to the garage and manipulated the spring with various tools.  Eventually I managed to bend it in such a way that I could once again attach it.  Of course I knew if the metal was fatigued to the point where it snapped I knew my rig job could snap as well.  I just hoped it held until I was done mowing. Luckily it did. I ordered a replacement spring later as well as a couple other small parts that could use replacement.

I got done mowing around 7:15. Normally getting the mowing done on a weeknight would be enough but since Ali isn’t home I wanted to get ahead of the curve as much as possible.  I quickly formulated a grocery list and headed out to Publix.  I was back home with the groceries unpacked by 8:45. I was pleased with what I accomplished.

I was watching part 2 of V the Final Battle last night.  This episode featured a lot of Faye Grant getting tortured by Jane Badler. Grant is probably tied as the most attractive female in the series with the woman that plays the Star Child. Unlike most of the female leads she doesn’t have huge hair or a huge ass.

In last night’s episode Faye is getting tortured by the Visitors as they try to “convert” her. For the session Faye is wearing a body color, spandex like, full body tights thing.  It was pretty steamy.  Her acting during the torture session was downright funny.

My bachelor weekend has nothing very concrete on the calendar.  I have various small projects to do around the house, I need to shave my head, do the August Bar-barian push up challenge and do a training brick.  What fills in the blanks around that is unknown at this time.