AN EASIER WAY!

In the fall of the year there is the task of raking the leaves up and disposing them in a landfill. This job I wrote about in earlier writings and thought we had a slick way of doing it with our equipment, but one fall I noticed our neighbor starting after we started and ending before we got ours done and bagged to take to the dump. He was completely finished and no bags to dump. Yes, they had a tractor that pulverized the leaves and they remained to fertilize the lawn. Since our "slick" way was getting harder and harder each year as we were getting older, I thought this truly was a much easier way. Over winter, the thought eluded my memory. I had been in the hospital a lot and my husband was helping me with the housework this particular day. He was shaking out a rug and noticed that our neighbor was putting a sale sign on his tractor. He told me that he thought they were selling their tractor. Our neighbor had just walked in the house and his phone was ringing. Yes, it was for sale and I told him that we were quite interested. We went over to discuss the price and bought it within a half hour. Our neighbor said it was the quickest he had ever sold anything. Now to top it all off, we had transferred the exact amount of money into our checking account to cover the tractor a few days earlier. Just one more sign that it was a right decision for us at this time in our life. Thought--Since we didn't know how many years we would be able to do our own yard work, we didn't think buying a new tractor would be wise, but getting a fairly new used tractor was just perfect. God knows our needs and supplies those needs before we ask. PTL!