Last weekend had to be one of the most gorgeous November days in the past century! Last Saturday after Kim's shower wrapped up I finally made it outside to start on the task of picking up some of the leaves that we have been remiss about this year (most of the early leaf fall blew across the street to our neighbors yard of which we were jokingly reminded of when we ran into them in church a couple of weeks ago). I raked up a couple small piles and no sooner had I hooked up the leaf vacuum and began to suck up the first pile when I heard a horrible clunk followed by the sound of the small electric motor rising two octaves and vibrating the extension cord loose. I took the attachments off and upon seeing that nothing was stuck, I tried again with the same result. I did notice however that the impeller blades looked odd. Shannon later upon more thorough investigation noticed that one of the (hard) plastic blades had been sheared off! That was the end of that day.
I suggested that we must go to the Home Depot and buy a new one on Sunday so I could finish or rather start this job!! Those of you who don't know me well might think that it's strange for the wife to get excited about a leaf blower/vac. Well - as you can see we got the new and improved Ultra model by
Toro for $69.99 a mere $10 more than our 5yr non-Ultra model. Improvements include snazzy red color, better cord control mechanism, more horsepower, and most importantly a METAL impeller. What a concept - something that sucks up large leaves, small sticks, acorns, and other
debris might need something stronger than hard plastic... So there is a variety of reasons to get excited!
Sunday was beautiful, the new leaf blower is fantastic, and the garden got it's much needed layer of leaf mulch fertilizer for the year - Yeah!
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