Sold

Today I sold one of the water containers. Thanks Mat. I sold the garden tractor the first day. I'm impressed with how easy and efficient it is to sell on Graig's List. I will be using it more.

Vacation Postponed One Week

We decided to drive. We will leave a week later than planned. August 14th is the new leave day. I posted a couple of items on Craig's list. The one I thought would not have interest sold inside of an hour. A Sears 1970's garden tractor with a plow and a bad motor. I called it a POS. I also placed one for a 275 gallon water tank. $100 each. Hope to sell it also.

To drive or fly

I am getting ready to take a 10 day vacation from work. I want to go to Colorado, but don't know whether of not to just drive or to fly. To drive would cost about $100 or so more than to fly. However; to drive with Shiloh might me easier for her. I should make the decision today, due to the fact that tickets will go up if I wait till the last minute. I need to mow the grass around the barn, or just plow it. It can be a fire issue later in the year when it dries out and is right up to the building. Grass fires aren't out of the question. With the steel roof and block construction, I think I'm pretty safe. I do have some wooden doors, that could burn. Anyway it would just be good to be there and look it over. I am looking forward to leaving here and being there permanently next year. So to spend a week or so there is what I look most forward to. These pictures are late in the year when the grass is dry.

1953 Chevrolet 2 Ton

I was looking at some of my picture files, after downloading my camera, and came across these. This is my 1953 Chevrolet 2 ton with a grain box on the back. It is an end dump. The grain trucks came with either an end dump or a side dump. When I bought the truck in eastern Colorado, the back window was boarded up to keep the rain out. When I went to clean it out, there was about a bushel of corn under the seat. The seat smelled like mouse pee. It was the old cotton and horse hair, covered in vinyl. I bought some foam and an upolstry kit and after replacing the window, restored the interior. Machaniclly it was in pretty good shape. I did have to replace the radiator a year or so after I bought it. It is great fun to drive. I have to put on my costume to go anywhere in it though. That consists of bib overalls, a long sleeve plad shirt, and my John Deere cap. I could ware a straw hat in the hot sun. It is parked on my ranch in Colorado now. I will probably have to clean the carborator and put fresh gas in it when I get home next year.

Wild Woman

Another evening indoors due to more rain.

Our new life with a wild woman keeps us smiling.

We also got a sympathy card in the mail from Indian Trail Animal Hospital. It was signed by all three Doctors and all the staff. When we took Shiloh in for her first exam, the staff was almost in tears thinking of Rion. This card came just 3 days later. He was just a dog, but a special one.