Phillip and Stubble Bunnies

Ever had one of those days when it felt like all you did was kill time? Yep...that was today.

As soon as I finished chores I got my instructions from Merle for the next couple days. He headed to Rapid this afternoon to get some things done and will be back tomorrow after an appointment- sometimes driving back and fourth isn't worth it! So anyway, I dinked around checking a well and the few spayed heifers I put out in the small pasture nw or the house last week. When I finished with that I went up to the shed to help Jeff take the door and alternator off the 5250. Today, one of my jobs was to take the glass door and alternator up to Phillip to two different places and get them fixed. Another thing I needed to do was get the tire on the pickup I was planning on taking fixed. It has had a screw in it for a couple of days that has been acting as a temporary plug...well I wasn't going to drive to Phillip on it and it was starting to leak so we loaded up the door and alternator and I headed to Martin to get the tire fixed. I sat in line to get the dumb thing fixed for the next 45 min, but finally got it done. If I had known they were gunna be so busy and so many people were gunna cut in front of me I would have just changed to the dang tire and left it there! O well, instead I stood around a caught some crap from the locals ... and shot it right back! haha, yep good times in Martin.

Eventually I got out of there with a patched tire and headed to Phillip. Merle and Glen had gone up to Phillip a lot earlier this morning to haul up some fall calves Glen sold today. It wasn't going to work for him to take this stuff to Phillip and back so we both ended up there today. I actually met Merle on the hiway when he was on his way home and I was on my way there. He got back here and Sharla and him went to Rapid. I hung out at the sale barn in Phillip and sat with Glen and his wife for a while until everything was ready for me to pick up again.

The cranky guy at case IH messed me up on the belts I needed and shorted me one in the end, but he did get the alternator fixed. O- short rant-> So the windrower has a double breather/ air filter like a lot of tractors do. There is a small inside filter that has a small wing nut fastener and then a big outside filter that has a lid and bigger wing nut. Well, both nuts were stripped so I was going to pick up a couple new ones. You can buy the little one for a few bucks but the big one...you have to buy the entire $100 lid just to get the wing nut. Rip off! Seriously, I'm going to go buy a washer and nut for like a dollar and solve that problem- I hate that kind of marketing crap. ...ok now I'm done.

The welder had the door latch fixed too, so I picked that up and very, very carefully ratchet strapped it down (I was deathly afraid of breaking that door)! I managed to get home with everything in one piece. Jeff came and we put the door back on and plan on putting the alternator back on tomorrow. He had been moving bales most of the day and Ross windrowed...until he couldn't get it started and they both worked on the dumb thing until they got it to go. There is some problem or trick to getting the thing in nuetral- if you forget to do it when you shut it down it's like a rubics cube to get started again! But, they got it right about the time I showed back up at home. After we put the door on Jeff headed home and I cleaned things up around the shed. I found plenty to keep me busy for the rest of the afternoon. I cleaned out the stock trailer and unhooked it, did chores, groomed Ace and Joe- the two most unloved and underfed horses on the place (right!), and worked on my lawn. While I was mowing a strange pickup pulled in the driveway- and I'm quite a ways off the main road so this isn't exactly a common occurance. I went down to figure out who it was and caught on pretty quick. It was harvesters (there are crews all over right now) looking for a place to fish. They wanted to fish in Rissie Dam- at least I think that's what they were discribing- but I couldn't give them permission and it is the neighbors anyway so I lucked out. They fished around asking me questions for a while and I finally told them I had to get back to work- haha I have their card, better keep that one on file! If you got better looking for every tooth you lost before age 30 these guys would Tom Cruise! LOL!

They left, I finished in the lawn for the night, and came in for some lovely cereal for supper. The rest of the night was just time spent around the house. I went out after a while to lock the chickens up and none other than Ace and Joe were standing there. They have this habit (mostly Joe) that when I come out in the morning it is somehow effective to winnie at me until I feed them. Tonight, they decided to do this- an hour after they had been fed! Little farts, you would think they were starved.

Anway, I am gunna go ahead and put some picture up on this darn blog finally if I can figure it out!