Tractor Drama and STORM

We thought June would end with a nice weekend since we got all our mowing done earlier in the week.  Side note on lawn – we now have 3 acres that come with our fancy new house and the lawn is massive to mow.  We have HIS and HER lawn tractors just to help speed up the process. However over the past month we seem to have had several tractor issues which just adds to the mowing time.  My tractor was used is it has had more issues than Jeff’s which is now one year old. I mention this age as we can’t believe what happed this week.  The front metal axel BROKE!  on the front wheel.  A couple hundred $$ later we are back in business – really???? 

The lawn is very uneven and very hard on our tractors.  One theory is from a repair on the wheels after Jeff  (with tractor) fell into a HUGE gopher hole.  This weakened the axel and was a matter of time before it broke.

Very sad but thankful it could be repaired AND Jeff was not hurt in the incident. 



If that wasn’t enough excitement for the week  - we did not know we were in line for a massive storm Friday night.  Lightning like a disco club in our house, hail, wind and rain.  It was so intense and we lost power for the night and again for a few hours in the morning.  Again so thankful that we are fine and have power once again.  It really took a toll in our area with so much power outage and trees down. 
 
Before storm we had a Rubbermaid storage box and a grill on our patio. 



In the morning it was all over the yard.  Box could be be saved and found outside play equipment a new home in garage. 





A few tress down in backyard.  Project for today was filling in gopher holes. 




Hidden gopher holes – beware!!!