Avid readers may recall the excitement of the lawnmower breaking. This week's activitiy is the snowblower breaking.

It no longer actually does anything, because while it usually starts and runs happily, you can't engage the auger part, so it just kinda is there as a large lawn ornament. I tried to take it apart yesterday to attempt to fix things, and noticed that the drive belt was off the pulley, so I put it back. Of course then after everything was all connected back up, and I started it, the belt fell off again. I think that means the belt is a sympton, not a problem. Do'h. I'm not sure when I'll have time to look at it again, hopefully the snow I didn't get to deal with will melt, but its not looking promising. Maybe I'll find a wonderful used one in the newspaper on sunday. I tried calling last week to one, but they never called me back, so it seems as if they had already sold it. How annoying.