New snowblower For Halloween

I had a busy day Saturday, first went to my moms for a visit and then received a surprise! My mom when back to Hungary a few weeks back to settle my grandma's estate, as my mom is the executor of my grandpa and grandma's will, but my grandpa is to sick to deal with the estate so my mom has to do all things dealing with the estate, things like paying there bills etc... Well my grandpa being to sick to go back to Hungary to pick up my grandma's pension asked my mom to go in his place, that and since my mom is executor for there estate and Grandma was my moms mom it's only right she go. Long story short, my Grandpa wanted the money divided up between the grand kids being my brother my sister and I and the rest for my mom.

So my surprise was an envelope with some money in it from my Grandma cutesy of my grandpa. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa. :)


Which brings me to my new toy! After our visit to my mom Joanne and I went to Canadian tire store. Canadian tire is a nation wide auto tire and hardware store. We were planing on buying a snow blower this year for some time now and with this extra cash we decided to make the purchase since they had snow blowers on sale this week. Yippee! no more shoveling!! Thanks Grandma, Grandpa.

So we get to the store and make the purchase for a 308cc 24inch auger with 6 forward gears and 2 reverse. a really nice machine, it even has a headlight! Well we had the sales guy put it on a cart and roll it down to cash, I then paid for it and started wheeling out to the car as if I was going to load it into my car? I knew It wouldn't fit, and when the cashier said if there is any problem loading it into my car just bring it back and we will hold it for you, and made a copy of the bill to use to hold it. I just nodded and said yes, good idea! all the while I knew I had a plan to get it home on my own!

I pushed the cart with the 200lb snow blower in the huge box out to the parking lot towards my car and told Joanne put the shovel we also bought in the car and drive home, I will push the snow blower home on the cart. ( which I wasn't really allowed to do as the cart is the stores property, but I planed on bring it back )

My house is approx 2.5 km away and most of the way home is up hill. So I pushed and pushed, sometimes running and jumping on the cart like a skate board and gliding. Some spots were ruff along the side walk, specially at street corners crossing the road, and on top of that it was really windy and I even got rained on a bit with some snow showers. But I finally made it home.

Just before getting home, I called Joanne on her cell phone she lent me in case I needed help on the way home to let her know I'm down the street so she can get some pictures on me.lol So here they are.....


Here I am rounding the corner to my house.


Here is the beast after un-creating and assembling.

Side view...

The first thing I did when I set the box in my garage was to get the cart back to the store. I took the handle off the cart and slipped both parts of the cart into my red car and drove back to the store. I reassembled the cart when I got to the store and wheeled it back into the store to the sales guy and said; Here you go thanks! and he said, did you really push the box home on the cart? and started laughing. I said yep! and he thanked me for bring the cart back.

When I got back home I unpacked the snow blower and tested her out. I filled her with gas and with one draw of the pull cord she started up!! I Can't wait for the first snow fall!! :)

After I put her away in the corner of the garage I had to cut the grass and did.

Next was to get ready for Halloween! I put Joanne's car in the garage out of the way of the kids coming to our front door. Joanne had candy at the ready in the front hall entrance and we were set!

5:30pm...Nothing, 5:45 still no one ? 6:00pm Whats' going on? 6:30pm just starting to get dark but still no kids? ..Finally 6:35pm our first kid! Whoot! and a cutie to boot, I would say he was 4yrs old and dressed like spider man. Then more started showing up slowly. We might have had 50 kids all night come to are door in total all night. I guess the neighbourhood is getting older now, I remember years ago where we would shell out over 400 candy bars? this year 50? It was still fun seeing the little ones and now I have tons of candy and chocolate left over for me! :)

Training totals.....

Swim...00000

Bike 2hours

run 17km

:)