My Darling Wife calls today a do over day. I am not to sure if I agree. It finally got dry enough and the buyer was finally able to get a truck so we managed to get our scrub calves out of here today so something went right. Between the steers and heifers both they averaged 570 lbs. a piece. Quite good for our culls.
Now the things that went wrong. Our ,new, personal vehicle that my Darling Wife takes the oldest to the bus in had a dead battery this morning. She managed to get her to the bus but just barely. After we got the calves out I found the starter out on one of the generators for pumping water so had to switch generators. I got in my ranch pickup to switch them and the battery was dead on it. So I jnumped in the hired man's ranch pickup and the alternator wasn't working in it right so the battery was real low and I couldn't get a jump off it. I finally rounded up a vehicle that worked and started jumping batteries getting everything running.
Finally switched generators and we were trying to burn some weeds and were using the swather to pile them and we shut it off while we were doing some burning. We went to restart it and it wouldn't start. Finally figured out the solenoid was bad so there the swather sits dead.
You might remember recently I talked about buying new horses. Well it didn't take but a few dahys and the young one, Beau, cut up his leg real good. It had been getting better but in the past couple of days it took a turn for the worse. We had a vet come out to give us a health inspection and brand inspection to ship our calves across state lines so we asked him to take a gander at him. He didn't think it was to bad but he wanted him in at the clinic to get the infection under control, so in amongst everything else we had to run him into town for a visit with the vet.
Tomorrow somebody will have to run to Billings to get parts to start fixing everything. It was one of those really odd days on the ranch. We had the good and the bad. A do over day though? I really don't think so. If we get one for this a lot of other people might want one for last Tuesday and I am not real sure I want to go through all the fall out again from that.
To My Darling Wife: Hon, I love you very much, BUT NO DO OVERS. These kinds of things are normal.
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. Douglas Adams
Monday, November 8. 2004
Do Over
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Reminds you of that song on the old "Hee Haw" shows. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. We have days like that around here, too.
#1
bonnie
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2004-11-09 09:14
Yes, not a "do over" day, but a "glad it's over" day. Lots of them here, too!
#2
Karen
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2004-11-09 10:46
I love you very much also but I sitll want my do over and I refuse to say that yesterday was some thing that Normally happens! LOL
#3
Sam\\\'s Darling Wife
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2004-11-09 12:30
Dear Wife, If you figure out how to have a "do over day" please let the rest of us in on the secret, okay?
#4
bonnie
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2004-11-09 14:31
Sometimes taking a LONG nap can act like a Do Over but I don't get those very often! LOL
#5
Sam's Darling Wife
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2004-11-09 14:46
The day sounds normal to me.
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Chuck Rightmire
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2004-11-10 21:27
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