Twas the first day of vacation and all through the land... It rained, and rained, and then rained some more.
I figured out real early in the day that is was not going to be a great day.
You see, I had skipped mowing the lawn the lawn last weekend because I wanted to do it right before we left. I had fertilized this spring and it is growing at about 3" a week and I didn't want it too tall when we got back., so anyway...
I get up early and attempted to start the mower. No dice... It sounded like the battery was dead, so I hooked up the charger and tried again. No go. I did a couple of circuit checks and found the starter to be bad. No chance of a replacement this early, so I cleaned and lubed it and cleaned the contacts and got the mower running. About 1/3 of the way though, the drive belt for the blades breaks. 8:30 in the morning is not a good time for parts. After about an hour of chasing around, I finally found a belt and got it going again, only to go 30 feet and have a flat tire.
yep, that is how my day started...
Lori and I finally made it down to Mark and Lori's place and dropped the dogs off and got the bikes ready to go. It was raining pretty good, and it just didn't let up. All the way down Hwy 410, down, Hwy 123 and east on Hwy 12 it rained. When we got into Yakima, it let up for a minute, but it was short lived. All the way from Yakima to Sunnyside, it rained.
Thankfully we already had the room here arranged, so we didn't have to look around.
After Mark got off work and caught up, we went out to dinner at a local Casino/sports bar called RC's. They have a never ending pasta bowl that Lori S. ordered. It was HUGE! We asked if anyone ever ordered another bowl (never ending) and was told "very seldom" The food was good, we are tired and laying around the Motel room, just relaxing. I just hope tomorrow does better, or at least drier!
Till then...
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