Hello Everyone!!  I hope you are having a pleasant Sunday.  We’ve been up and about on the farm trying to clear the encroaching jungle since we are experiencing dry weather.  I asked Gnome to crank up the brush-mower on Wednesday.

He has been clearing the yard with the weed-wacker with a circular saw blade (according to Gnome this is better than using the “string” because it saves on consumables and  the usual horizontal blade tends to scatter rocks around which can be potentially dangerous).  I am going into a lengthy conversation about this blade attachment because I had to go into every hardware store in Punta Gorda looking for a circular saw blade to fit the end of the weed-wacker and I had to repeat the above explanation so many times…

“…yes I’m looking for a circular saw blade…no, it’s to fit a weed-wacker….”

Apparently, nobody does this and were very interested in this innovative idea.  Maybe this is another wacky Gnome idea that requires trademarking (Ha-Ha!!).

Anyway, back to the brush-mower.  In a nutshell…Rest in Peace!!  The brush-mower has always given us trouble from day 1 and we have never (ever!) successfully cleared the farm in an entire run.  Something usually breaks down or the battery goes dead or something (it’s not in the mood or something!).  The parts have to be shipped from the States and the machine is put away awaiting parts that can take anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months to get to us.  Once we get the part, it runs for a bit and then something else goes wrong and then we have to order another part.  And round and round the merry-go-round we go.  I think we’ve been doing this for 5 years and Gnome is sick of it!

This time round, I am not sure what happened but it wasn’t working again.  Gnome was so fed up and threw a big hissy fit!  No wonder!!

The brush-mower wasn’t in a working condition when we first got it so I’m surprised it lasted this long with us.  It was Belize-rigged…look at this!!

Anyway, Gnome has nothing but this:

Ha-Ha…not sure if he can do anything with this but he will try his best as usual.  But, for now,  I think it’s going to be weed-wacker (that’s all we have) to clear 12 acres. Wow…that’s going to be a lot of work since some of the bush is really high.