Glasgow Trip

We had a busy day ahead of us, so we started early. Linda went to Dr Rice's office to get her stitches removed. When she came home, we hooked up the red trailer and put the small mower inside to take to the John Deere dealer for repairs. I had phoned Rite Aid to renew Stacey's prescription, so we stopped there after taking the DVDs back to the video store. Then on to Glasgow for a tank of gas and to check out the prices for mulch for the flower beds. I stopped at the JD dealer and unloaded the mower. When I talked to the service manager, he said it sounded like the transaxle was messed up and it would probably be better to simply remove the old one and replace it with a new one, at a cost of $553 for just the transaxle, not including labor. Whew, that was a bunch of money, so I asked how much they would give me as a trade in for a new mower. The salesman made a couple of calls and came back with a figure of $200. I laughed and said I would rather throw the mower in the trash than take $200 for it. He said it was worth about $1,000 but there were $750 worth of repairs needed. I went and told the service manager to tear it apart and give me a call about what they found wrong.
The next stop was Captain D's for lunch and then over to Lowe's for some mulch. We bought flowers and 30 bags of mulch. They set the pallet of mulch in the red trailer with a fork truck. Linda had me stop for a few minutes at the K-Mart and we headed on home.
We drove home and then started spreading the mulch in the flower beds at the front of the house. It made the flowers standout and should keep the weeds down too.