9 years later, and those of us who picked up a Toro Recycler used like myself thought that was the reason the guy was selling the mower. The handle bar comes to just above my knees. I thought it operator error, but thanks to this blog, I know it is a Toro manufacturing error. Seriously no excuse for Toro to have allowed what is obviously a design flaw to get thru production. What's worse, there should have been a recall to fix the handle bars of these mowers. Not like they were cheap to buy new. But how many years did Toro make this mower, and not even go and fix this defect? Once again proving to the world Honda is still the reigning champ when it comes to lawn mowers. And they don't even have lawns in Japan! C'mon Toro get your head out of thy butt! Thanks everybody. Time for some good old fashioned ingenuity, but alot less skill to fix the handle bars.. lol! By the way, maybe removing the Toro bars, and replacing the bars from another model or brand could also be the way to go. People put out old lawn mowers at the curb all the time, keep an eye out and it won't even cost ya any $$ chedder.

I've missed reponding to a few things... I had to look up golden seal; I wasn't familiar with it. It seems to want damper conditions than I have so it probably wouldn't do well. And, if it did, it sounds like it might spread more than I'd like! So thanks for the suggestion but I think I'll pass on that one...:-) The trillium in the picture is a red one. Most of the trilliums in my garden are the big white ones but I have a patch near the shed that are red. They were the reason dark red was one of the colors I had considered for the shed door. (I ended up deciding against a red door because I figured I'd never be able to get the right color match....) Deanne - I think the little tulips have been there since 2002 - that's the first time I see them on my bulb buying lists. I have added them in a number of areas over the past few years but the sheaf of them in the picture are in the driveway border. That's the first place I planted them so they are the oldest ones. Those ones and are about a foot away from the one that came up in the lawn so presumably that's where the seed for the lawn one came from.

Do you have pics that you could post? -Jmcat

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