@larand Ørk!
Thinking of a lawn mower my father bought in the early 1990s: the grass that passed for lawn on the rural property turned out to be corrosive and the aluminium-alloy chassis of the thing just rotted. His previous mower was a two-speed self-propelled 5hp Honda with a steel chassis. The rotted one was a Jonn Deere with a 5hp Kawasaki engine and 5 gears on the self-propulsion system. The highest gear on each mower equated to virtually the same speed over the ground. Another problem with the John Deere: the gear selector broke and Dad locked it into 3rd gear.
He then replaced the missing deck sections with angle iron & galvanised sheet steel, a good trick considering one part carried the height adjustment mechanism. Because of the irregularities in the deck profile, mulching was no longer effective, it would clog up with cut grass instead of spreading it out over the cut area.
He could have easily afforded a new mower but as a tinkerer and instinvtive engineer, he just made do. He was 13 when the bank foreclosed on the family's market garden business in 1933 so "making do" was a serious part of his upbringing.
@hybotics Beautiful cheese. Sharp taste, crumbly texture neither oily nor dry. A bit strong & sharp for some tastes but I love it.
@hybotics Club cheese is a bit sneaky. It's a way of giving a 6-month-old cheese the texture of a four-year-old cheddar. And there's a cheese factory less than a mile away from my home that has 4-yr-old vintage cheddar.
@bazbt3 Yes. I knew the name was John but had to go back to a Riposte search to recall his surname.
@bazbt3 I try to get at least two 40+ WormWords games done per day, using the small word list.
@bazbt3 One can, provided the humidity is below 10 or 12%. This is easier the further north you go (we're right on 38° sth latitude at home, headed for 36° 144' S later today). Temps like that are nasty when we get them here because humidity usually exceeds 50%.
Looking in Mum's fridge for something to put on my toast. I found "spreadable cheddar."
It's a club cheddar with extra bits of butterfat & a bit of water included when the minced cheese is recombined. It is made with real cheese unlike that other dreadful processed 'cheddar' that looks & tastes like soap.