I'll attribute my lack of posts lately to too many hours at work. After 12 hours a day at my desk, I avoid the computer when I get home.
Well, we're finally getting settled into the house. We bought some ladder shelves for our living room, nightstands for our bedroom, and a new bed is on its way tomorrow. It's nice to finally be done with planning and enjoy our new house and puppies.
The puppies had a rough day today. It was finally time for fixing. They're just under five months so we went ahead and had them both taken care of. I thought they'd be knocked out when I went to pick them up, but they were suprisingly alert. I got them home and onto there pillow where they proceeded to pass out for a few hours. I could tell Stella wasn't herself - couldn't even get a tail wag out of her. Shooter hasn't been as mopey though. He was up trotting around for a little bit and just recently sat down for a good sleep. I'm off tomorrow, which works out nice so I'll monitor them and their stiches. The man came to deliver our lawn mower (which is another story in itself) this afternoon and I had just arrived home with the puppies. I had the drivers door open and they were scared of the stranger and Stella tried jumping back into the floorboard. Between Shooter's lesser pain and her trying to jump around, I'm glad I'll be home tomorrow.
As for the lawn mower...our new house came with an acre of land and a requirement for a riding lawn mower. Rather than buying a brand new one we might not need down the road, we bought a used one from Craig's List. I did quite a bit of research and found one from a guy in NRH who fixes old lawn mowers. I spoke with him and he seemed reputable so we went ahead. The bonus was he offered a 60 warranty on it to assure buyers he did good work. Well, about 4 mows into using the new mower, Bo noticed it leaking a little gas in the garage. We called Mr. Mower and he assured us he would come out to take a look. We made contact with him a few times and he always had an excuse.
Well, last week Bo was mowing the yard and had I not been watching him, I would have accused him of hitting something. As he made a turn, a black object went under the deck. Turned out the be the muffler mangled by the blades consequently causing additional damage under the deck. We called Mr. Mower several times with no luck. We followed up with a few emails - no luck. Turns out a warranty is worth nothing if your Mr. Mower won't call you back. We contemplated legal action - but he's a questionable man of hispanic orientation who knows where we live -and I really didn't want to piss him off and have him come after us.
Meanwhile, our grass wasn't getting any shorter so we called a few places in Weatherford and found a mom and pop place to work on it. $300 bucks later, our mower was returned to us today. Bo has been at work and yet to test it out so hopefully we'll be relieved of the problems and get our yard trimmed again. What a pain.
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