Not Even Harold Camping Could Have Predicted This

I changed the oil in my lawn mower today!

If you had told me five years ago that I would be changing the oil (including the oil filter) in my lawnmower today I would have said "There's oil in a lawnmower?!? – go figure!"

I bought the oil filter at Canadian Tire – although I'm going to have to watch for end of season sales – I paid more for my lawnmower oil filter than I do for a full on lube-oil-and-filter at Hardcore Autotech! (Unless I pay for the way cooler synthetic oil – which lasts twice as long as doesn't cost twice as much…)

In any case, I drained the oil, took off the old filter put the new one on and then re-filled the oil reservoir. Now – here's another complaint for the nice engineers at John Deere – why is it so freakin' impossible to read the dipstick when you have clean oil?

Oh! And why does it say "be very careful not to overfill"? Oh! And why is it even possible to overfill?

I suspect a John Deere Engineer named Simon is the guy who put that label on the oil tank.

Stupid Simon.

While I was in the oil changing mood I decided to see if my push mower (a little 3.5hp that Sherry uses to mow around the trees and on the dangerously sloped hill) has oil and son-of-a-gun it does! I removed all the old really black oil and added it to the pan full from the John Deere and filled it up with oil too.

Now. What do I do with the liter of old oil? My plan is to put it in an old container, label the container "Used Oil" and then put it on the top shelf for 25 years and sell it with the workshop.

Sounds like a plan to me.

In Other News – the baby Robin that hatched outside our window is Huge now! He's really loud and has been flapping his wings like crazy. I wonder if he knows how far down the deck is…?