What a Nifty Start to the "Season"

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The "season" being the start to summer. It's gotten off with a bang, as some might say, and the punches just keep rolling. It started off a month or so ago when on maybe the third cut of the season, the drive belt on my riding mower went kaput. That was a nice $400 setback and put us back to mowing with the push mower for a spell. Fantastic. Then, just a few days ago, I looked out the kitchen window and didn't see movement on the water in the pool. As soon as I walked out the door leading onto the back deck, I could smell it. Something electrical, hot and burning. The motor on the pool pump crapped out. $225 down the drain, and we had just opened the pool a few days before. We did get the new pump and filter assembly in yesterday and spent a good half of the day removing the old pump and filter and putting in the new one. What a royal pain in the ass. But get this, while we were still waiting for the pump and filter to arrive from Amazon, we decided we'd get the grass cut. I backed the rider out of the garage and noticed something odd about the front, left tire. I got off the mower and examined it, and somehow, and I have no idea how, the tire was not only flat, but completely blown apart. So, now I will have to replace the tire. And naturally, when I went to Lowes—I prefer Menards, but Lowes is closer and I just wanted to get the tire fixed ASAP—they didn't have the tire I need. I still don't have the tire, so I will either have to shop around for it, or order it online. But wait, it's not over yet. When my wife was filling the sand in the filter yesterday, she decided to pull up a patio chair. Halfway through the process there was a loud snap, crack, and my wife went sideways as one of the welds on the seat gave way. All this, and it's only June.