Let's Make A Deal

Sort of grey with a few sprinkles.

Three blossoms at once today.

Gary ran a few errands this morning and when he got home I went down to Lowes to look for a market umbrella.  While I was there I talked to a manager about my John Deere problems and had all my paperwork with me.  Seeing that it is under warranty, they are going to take it back and give me a new one on Wednesday.  If everything goes alright I will be utterly amazed and can't believe this could be done without having sent it out to the local John Deere store to have it repaired.

Gary is working on the pergola garden so I dragged a little table and our old grungy umbrella out there.

Isn't the color of these poppies strange?

Gary picked up a flat of the plants below to use as boarders.

At 1:30 I had a visitor.  Had dropped off some egg cartons to her yesterday and she brought me a dozen eggs today (she has chickens).  We sent her home with rhubarb and lettuce.  Anyway, her name is Rhonda and she is one of the two people who dethroned Mary and myself from the last Town Board election.  I never knew her until now and so happy that we were able to get together.  We became FB friends after I saw her at the Animal Hospital with one of her dogs and we spoke.  She does a lot of work with rescue dogs and we have many common interests.  Living proof that there are people from opposite political parties who can get along.  Anyway, she had the farm tour and met Rebel and Buddy.  I opened the grooming room door and they walked right in to the stalls (knowing they would get some cookies).  She is so good with animals.

Within the hour she won Little Wonder over.  He will not approach most people, but with all of her experience saving and placing dogs....he just knew she was ok.  So sweet.

Tonight I made a salad with fresh strawberries, bananas and poppy seed dressing.  Such a great combo.

Gary grilled some chicken and we had leftover rice and beans.  A weird combination, but it tasted great.

Little Wonder and I took our after dinner break and then

it was chore time.

Gary is getting a good grip on many of the gardens....we have way too many.

He plans to edge this one....move it over and plant some grass in the middle.  It just gets so overgrown in there.

Here's the new umbrella that brought me to Lowes.

Night all.

 

Deere John!!!!!!!!

A beautiful day until my new John Deere would not go forward or backward after I had mown half of the lawn.

Mid morning I ran a few errands, and when I got back to the farm started mowing while Gary worked on his tomato plants.  I was half done and that was that.  Called the store where I bought the lawn tractor..looked at videos to see if I good figure out what was wrong....and called Jenny, who finally got ahold of Scott....the master mechanic.  They both came over and we decided to call the local John Deere store on Monday to have them pick it up and see what's going on.  I have 30 days (warranty), and bought it on May 16th...so a few more to go.  It might get fixed or it might get swapped out for another one.  I sure hope this is going to have a happy ending.

Jenny and I picked strawberries and lettuce while Scott finished mowing the rest of the lawn with his 

o-turn.

It was done in no time.

Before leaving, we loaded my big, old John Deere onto his trailer and he took it home to get it back in shape so I can use it on the pastures.  My little one should be picked up by my friend Andrea in the next few days.  So...I am John Deereless.

Not in the mood to make a big dinner so we had the leftover Italian sausage and corn on the cob.

Chores at 8.

Night all.  

I plan to do a little "Heartland" binging tonight as season 16 was available starting today.  If you are a horse nut, it is a great series.