Delivery

It's been delivered! We are done researching, test driving and now proud owners of our first lawn tractor. May there be many years of finely clipped and mulched grass and no mechanical issues! I'm not kidding when I say that it took longer for us to decide on a lawn tractor than it did a house.

I'm happy to see Emma already riding and enjoying this machine because by the time she's 8 years old, she will be using it weekly...just like I did (except on a tractor about 3 times the size). And, in fact, my mom has told me many times how she was FIVE years old and driving a full-size (i.e. HUGE) farming tractor to assist my grandpa while he worked in the field.
Here's to child labor at its best and not letting them EVER get bored again :) (Who am I kidding...I'll probably be fighting her to let me mow the grass)

But for now, I think Joel will be happy as a clam taking the first few years, getting accustomed to his new man tool (the tractor, people!)