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slept:8.0 weight:161.2lbs (rest day)
A little rattled by how strained my L quad feels 10 days before our bike tour, so a rest day today, and probably tomorrow too.
Took the time I might otherwise have done some exercise and brought my beleaguered brush mower in for repairs. Latest and most dramatic failure was that I hit a rock that broke the blade off even with the support housing. The blade was weak there from a prior malfunction, when the spindle broke a few years ago and I kept using it until I got around to fixing it. Since the blade wasn't properly anchored, it rubbed against the housing resulting in a groove on the blade. That created a weak point, and when I hit the rock yesterday it snapped off right there on both sides. Because there isn't anything left to jam a stick against, I couldn't get the remainder of the blade off to replace it. Lots,of other things wrong with it, including a recent recalcitrance at starting, which reared its head when I was going to drive it up into the truck. I used the tractor to pick it up.
That reminded me of a few tractor jobs I have been stockpiling, so after I got back, and had a few business calls, I got out on the tractor, moved some brush, turned over the compost pile,filled in a gully and then fielded another call before dinner.