Sunshine Day!

I love Sears!

There! I said it! I love Sears. Why, you ask? Because they sold us a Craftsman garden tractor for cheap. And it's a good one.

Let me back up a bit. We definitely need something to mow at least the front two acres. The back four or so can just go to hay, that's fine. But around the house, garage and barn, we definitely need something. Although most of our grass is dead from this lovely heat wave, there are still some patches that seem to be thriving. So we did what any normal couple would do: we went shopping. Our first stop was at a place called Heritage Tractor and there we found a John Deere lawn tractor for an okay price. Definitely something we could pay cash for. Although we would have to buy a small tractor later on.

Side note: there are many different types of "tractors." They range from being nothing more than big lawn mowers to being massive, wheels-as-big-as-your-house earth-movers. At the small end of the spectrum, you have lawn tractors which are like mowers but they have larger rear wheels and have a hitch so you can pull small things. These are good for maybe a couple of acres of mowing depending on the horse power and deck size. Larger than that are garden tractors. They have more horse power and stronger engines making it so that you can not only mow more acres but you can also attach tillers, snow blowers and other such things. Garden tractors are really small tractors where lawn tractors are large mowers.

We then decided to take a quick look at Sears. There we found a Craftsman GT6000 for less than the John Deere. The GT stands for "Garden Tractor" which means it has more power than the John Deere and can actually till. After a bit of research on whether or not Craftsman garden tractors are awesome (they are), we went back and bought one. Well, actually, I opened up an account. No-interest for six months which means we could use our cash for something else we really, really need.

2000 Chevrolet S-10, 176K miles. Aside from the mileage, you wouldn't know that this beauty has been driven at all. And we paid cash.

So now that we have our tractor (or will have... being delivered on the 9th) and our truck, we can actually start some serious work here on the farm.