Sunday, April 15, 2007

Nick Drives a Riding Mower

Yesterday Will and Nick spent a good part of the day in the back yard doing manly things. Will brought his dad's old riding mower here awhile ago, and it's just been killing Nick that it was sitting out there, unoperational. So yesterday they fixed the gas leak and the tire and other stuff, and Nick got to mow the yard with it. Will mentioned that either the blade is a little slanted or maybe the grass just looked a little uneven at the corners because Nick was taking them on two wheels. He drove that thing like he thought he was in the lawnmower races.

So today when a couple of Nick's friends were here, the first thing on his agenda was to show off the lawnmower. Sadly, it wouldn't start. So here's Nick, jumping the battery. It worked.

While his friends watched from the deck, green with envy, Nick demonstrated his racing skills with the riding mower.

This is what a blueberry bush looks like after it is run over by a 15 year old boy who loses control of his mower as he races around a corner, trying to impress his friends.
I took the picture after I picked up all the broken branches. Lucky for him it was already a wimpy bush that has been failing the past two years. Hopefully a good shearing was just what it needed.
We might have a used riding mower for sale soon.

3 comments:

SAHM said...

Sounds like Nick should enter himself and his new toy into the souped up mower races. He wouldn't have obstacles like grass and fruit plants in his way, either. ;)

Anonymous said...

can't wait till the young giant gets to hit the highway with some power behind him. so much for any blueberry cobbler on the deck this summer douglas

MacNana said...

Hey Dougie the two good blueberry bushes are still there! We'll still have blueberry cobbler - but before that we'll get to have rhubarb crisp- We can ask Will to make it in the Dutch oven while we huddle around it to keep warm.