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Well. THAT did not go as planned.

I thought that cleaning the lawnmower's carburetor would be easy. I had found a blog that showed, with pictures, how to take the carburetor off and clean it.

Which would have worked, if our lawnmower looked like hers.

It's not even remotely like that.

When we went out to grab the air filter to take it with us (to guarantee getting a matching one) I realized that it looked like our carburetor was missing.

Our lawnmower matches the one on another blog. And cleaning it out is substantially harder than the other kind.

We're still going to give it a shot, just to see if we can do it, I think. But if we screw things up, we priced a new, comparable mower tonight. It's only $30 more than we paid for this one when we bought it new 7 years ago, so that's not too horrible.

We probably won't tackle this until Saturday; it will take a trip to Home Depot or Menards to get the new gasket and carb cleaner. And gloves. Definitely gloves.

But we were able to get some necessities tonight; we now have cat grease and cat litter, along with a new air filter and spark plug for our mower. The cat stuff is obviously the most important.

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The grasslings still look awesome. You can really see them today, which is amazing since they were barely visible last night.

It's supposed to rain again tonight or tomorrow so that should be good for the new grass. I can hardly express how excited I am about the yard greening up.

We have a LOT of mosquitoes, though. Mainly in the back yard, which is overgrown in places, yes, but we don't have any standing water that I am aware of. I wonder if some of our neighbors do. They are really thick and nasty and we were just covered in the brief time we were examining the mower. And they are the type to go for your face while their friends are sneaking onto your arms. It's coordinated, like a swarm of teeny velociraptors.

Since I'm as done as I can be on Kiwi's costume, I thought of something small to work on in the interim; I can do the lining for the Brea Bag that I have never assembled. I knitted it years ago. I have fabric to use for the lining, I just never did the pattern and sewed the pieces together.

It will be especially good to get that done since my current purse is getting ratty. I don't usually pay that much attention, but I noticed that the strap of fake leather is starting to crack because it grabbed my shirt today. It will be good to get another project finished.