Slack Sunday

A slack day.

Sundays are for slacking off...right? Well, that's the excuse I'm gunna use anyway. I got up and did chores and came in the house to work on some school stuff on the computer for a while. Boy, that was fun...exnay on the school stuff. Then, I headed to church for the morning. While I was gone Merle went and found two of our three missing steers and checked wells after the lightning. By the time I made it home and got some more paperwork for school done it was dinner time. I ate and then layed around for an hour or so (that doesn't happen real often lol). The afternoon plan was originally to go fishing, but on our way over to get the fishing rods we noticed a few steers had walked across the auto gate. In fact, after getting another four wheeler, I noticed more than just a few had walked across- more like 40 or so. So, we rounded them up and sent them back through the gate. That kinda put a hold on the fishing trip- it was time to dig out that auto gate and it needed to be brought to town and fixed anyway.

Merle insisted that he would stay and work on it with the loader and I was supposed to go in and keep working on my dang computer. So...I listened (for once - haha) and went in. A couple hours later I did chores and then headed back up to the auto gate to see what in the world was taking him so long. As it turns out, the dumb thing is wedged in there and has so much mudd holding it down that the loader can't pry it out. He dug and dug, and then I came and helped dig and push out some more, and the dumb thing wouldn't even budge. So, it was getting late and I'm pretty sure he had spent enough time there for one day, so we gave up. I think we are going to try it again, maybe when it's a little dryer out. Merle found a plank that will have to sit in the hole of the dang thing for a while before we break it.

Afterward, I quick ran to the shed to grab a couple bags of pellets we were getting low on in the grainery. I put them in the back rack on the four wheeler and headed down to put them away. When I got there I seemed to have a problem. You see, the back rack on the four wheeler is like a little rectangular cage type thing and a sack of feed will go in great, but won't come out. So...after we both pryed on it we finally gave in a put most of the pellets in another sack before we could get it out of there. Talk about a ridiculous problem...only I would do something like that twice! haha, oh well. But, that pretty much ends the day- I ate supper, showered, and headed to bed.