Ordinary Day

Today was nice and laid back.

I went down and did morning chores- we finally got out the trough style feeder for the calves and found out that it goes faster. (Basically you can feed five or six at a time instead of 3! After getting them all done Merle and I started in a small project. My fire pager hasn't been getting good enough reception to understand what is being said on the radio- but after going through the iron pile and finding a piece of angle iron that fits the roof and adding a few holes- we got it up and magnetized and the reception come in great. If you can picture me feeding a cable through the wall from inside of the house and Merle outside trying to find it in the wall while yelling through the wall at each other you would get the picture...apparently this house is pretty insulated cuz we couldn't hear much! But, after the 6pm page test I learned that our work was successful and it comes through great now! As soon as we got that project done we went down and put everything away and Merle said I had the day off to do whatever I wanted. So...I went home and sat aroudn watching a movie for a while and then decided to work on some bookwork. At 11 or so I ran to town to mail a letter just to find out that the outgoing mail went out at 10:45 and the lobby closed at 11. Just my luck. I grabbed some groceries and headed back home to eat some lunch (fried egg sandwich- I know you're jealous) and planted some flowers that I bought in town. I couldn't get any of the one gajillion keys hanging on the hook in the house to match up with the lock on the shed door so I just carried water to my flowers until I later stole Merle's key.

After doing some cleaning and catching up on old mail it was chore time. They took a little longer than normal because I did them by myself. Adrienne and Merle were having a heck of a time changing the oil on her new pickup. Since she bought it in November she had never changed it before and they learned that it's more difficult to find a wrench that fits than they thought! But, they got it done right as I finished chores so I gave them a hard time about their impeccable timing! The rodeo started at 5 tonight and I had thought about going but I didn't get done with chores until then and it started to rain shortly after so I just decided it was best to go home. So, here I am.

Merle was going to go and pick up the drill today so we could start donig some farming- but I think that's now a tomorrow task. I am planning a trip to Rapid tomorrow afternoon to pick up some things that I just can't get in Martin. (imagine that) O- and Delbert saved my butt today! They went to check steers yesterday and found some bags of salt on the trail and were going to give me crap for losing them on our way out yesterday but just before anyone go ahold of me Delbert called and said that Tyler (or some of his help) had lost a couple bags going through their. HA! I win- it wasn't me!!

Anyway- that's all I've got.

"The ordinary acts we practice everyday at home are of far more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest." -Thomas Moore