Fixin'

Another busy couple of days.

We had a huge thunderstorm on Friday night, and my computer needed to be plugged in; so that put a cramp in my internet use. I knew I would have some time before church this morning, so here goes.

Friday was a pretty straight forward day. We did chores and I hauled some oats around when Roger, the mechanic from Phillip showed up. We had a list ready to go for each tractor and had plenty to keep him busy. But first things first, we went up and pulled out an old car that Roger wanted to used for a demolition derby. Later in the day some of his friends came with a trailer to pick it up and they were pretty excited- I think it was a Pontiac Grand Ville? ...or something like that. The moral of the story is that they were so excited to have this car- it was funny. O, but the best part...this kid had a tilt bed trailer with fenders, and he got in the car to steer it up on the trailer while Merle pushed the bumper with the loader. He gets the car on and this guy realizes that he can't get out. The fenders are in the way- so we got to thinking. Roger pounded on a window and it didn's seem to wanna knock out too easily- plan B, try the power windows. So we hooked Roger's pickup up to this ancient battery and believe it or not there was enough juice there to roll down a back window for him to crawl out of. It was funny, and I'm sure nice and warm and mousy inside the car. Anyway, they got out of there with the car and we kept working on tractors.

We went through the entire list and got all that we could done. There were still a few things that required more parts or time, but we did what we could. It was looking like rain so Merle and Roger headed out toward the windrower (that was way out west of Hisle) and I stayed back and parked tractors and put stuff away. Then, I did chores. Right about the time I was halfway through it started to pour and boy chores are fun in the rain. No one wants to come and eat their grain, your soaked, and the feed is going to get wet no matter what... always fun. But I got it done and ran for the house. I got ahold of Merle on the radio and he said they had just gotten out of there. It's a good thing because they were in a place you definitly don't want to stay when it rains like that- you could be stuck there all night! But, Roger went back to Phillip and Merle made it back home. I lost in a game of cribbage (not surprizing) and that was a day.