Steady & Busy By the Moment

Since the return from Vacation (sad), I have been steady and busy. Constant would be the word, every moment of every second I have something I should/need to be doing. We have got 3/4 of the hay cut & baled. Last Friday & Saturday I had a heck of a time cutting hay, some days you just aren't meant to work. This was one of those day. Took me 2 days to cut roughly 40 acres, kept breaking down and having repair my hay cutter. Then I finally got the old swather out of retirement and took it down to finish the flipping job - in less than 3 hours I was done. It was a great feeling to know I was done with the job from Hell. Weird thing is most days I like cutting hay and have no issues. But every now & then you have to be humbled and reminded that you are only as productive as your machine.

Now that I have that hay down it has been raining, we got a 1/2 inch of rain over the last 2 days. Should be a week before I can bale that hay. Now I have a couple trucks that are in need of repair. We have a piece of you know what Ford Pickup with the V10 engine in it. These engines seem to have a small issue of blowing the spark plug out of the hole and stripping the threads. For the fix you have to drill the flipping block (yea that is what I said Drill the freakin' block and send the shavings down to sit on top of the piston) & put new thread in it. Not that hard or complicated just so very very very unnerving. There is apparently such a big issue with these trucks that they have kits you can buy to do the whole job start to finish for about 400 bucks, the kit comes with enough stuff to do 4 spark plug holes. Nice dont ya think.

I do believe that I have the issues with my swather worked out. It should not give us any more grief for a while. Wink wink wink, I hope.

I have the kids in swim class for the next 2 weeks. My morning is going to spent taking them in to swim class 20 miles away. The community built a new pool last year, so it is a nice new pool and the kids are loving it. I will be relieved if my youngest boy (almost 4) learns something. He is a bit of the reckless type, I like to tell people he is just busy. He never stops from the time he gets up til he collapses at night he is doing something or into something. He is a little fearless in the Pool (and every where else too), so I know his grandparents would be very thankful if he had a bit of respect and skill in the water. Right now all he is good at is trying to drown & unless he learns how to swim he will eventually succeed. My older boy took classes last year so he is on the 2nd level and ready to try and conquer the pool. Good all the way around for both of them to have this in there day. Kind of a pain for me, but that is what it takes for the kids to learn something that they will carry with them the rest of their lives. Besides it's not all about me all the time, right??