Starting yesterday afternoon, we had the first snowfall of the year, with about 3″ of accumulation.  It looks like a winter wonderland outside! Chad also used this as his opportunity to try out the new snow blower for our lawn tractor, which worked out pretty well.  We think we’re really going to like not having…

One of the main reasons we bought a snow blower this year was to avoid marking up our new driveway.  Chad was also worried about the steel skids on the blower scratching the drive.  To further reduce the risk he bought a pair of these shoes online.  The site listed the material as Robalon which…

We haven’t set it up yet, but today Chad and I picked up a snow blower for our garden tractor.  Chad is planning to set it up and complete the installation later this weekend.  I will post more pictures once it’s done.

Yesterday, we started the project to install a new retaining wall in the back yard by tearing out the old railroad tie wall, removing some bushes, and starting to re-grade the area around the retaining wall. I managed to miss getting a good picture yesterday of the wall before we started tearing it down, but…

Last Saturday, Chad dug out our garden tractor to mow the yard for the first time this spring and spread some fertilizer.  He started mowing, but only got a few yards when the engine died and he couldn’t get it to start again.  The engine would turn over when he turned the key, but it…

This year, we decided to try something different for leaf removal and bought a John Deere Power Flow bagger for our lawn mower.  They come in 7 and 14 bushel models and we decided on the larger of the two.  So far, it’s done a good job of picking up the leaves and grass clippings…

Here are some pictures of our new John Deere X720 riding lawn mower that was delivered today: We selected the X720 model because it has the direct shaft drive mower deck as well as fuel injection, which we’re hoping will help with winter starting. So far, we’ve noticed that it runs smoothly and seems to…