Del - The Fix-it Man

For those who are new to my blog, I do this in part as a way of journaling,
but it's also a place for me to store photos of my art.
I begin each blog with my art and try to relate it in some way to what I'm writing about,
but sometimes, like today, it's a stretch of the imagination.
This painting is from a page in a book I'm illustrating about Del when he was 6 years old.
Because there's a John Deere tractor in the painting, I'm using it for my post today!

Del – the fix-it man! For the last little while Del has mowed the lawn about 3 times in 3^rd gear. It got stuck in “fast gear” and he couldn’t use anything else, including reverse. After tearing the lawn tractor apart, he came to a conclusion of what might be the problem. So he stopped at some businesses and called around to find the parts or see what others would charge to fix it. Bottom line, it would cost $1000 if everything goes well, but our model is so old that the parts aren’t even available! He secretly thought: “Hurray!! I can go buy my dream John Deere tractor!!” But being the fix-it man that he is, I think he just couldn’t leave it alone without at least trying “one more thing.” Whatever that “thing” was, he’s got it running again! I think he’s slightly disappointed. I’m thrilled. His dream tractor costs $2500. Yah! Money saved! What can we buy instead?!! 😉

Del in the garage between two cars trying to fix the tractor!

It's fixed! Time to assemble the parts and put it back together!