Thanks for the compliment. I am glad that you understood what I was saying about the tractors, and the fuel shut off and the battery shut off. I have had to learn alot even though I don't know enough to take them apart, I do understand much of the basic running of them. And I like the "older tractors"... They are simpler in some ways, and I can figure them out if I take the time to think about them. The newer ones I get in and am totally lost....
My son is a good mechanic, but time is the "problem" also...projects.... he has actually sent out some of our problems lately. Since his accident, he doesn't have the same push to work on them as he used to. I think part of that is he is more often tired out from work and that is alot of "mental fatigue". He is a supervisor and 2nd in command of the VDOT headquarters where he works, and has to deal with alot of BS with the employees and with the public. Just one example... the guys were mowing the road right of ways... the sides and banks of the roads. Normal job to keep the sides of the roads from becoming jungles and to keep the growth back so you can see up and down the road, line of sight etc.. Some "angry landowner" brought in a stalk of milk weed that had been mowed down.... on state right of way.....because there are not very many places that milkweed is growing and it is the only food for the migrating Monarch butterflies..... and he had to go meet with this landowner to discuss this. OKAY I am all for trying to help different species survive.... but come on???? If he wants that bank to not be mowed by the state, so that the milkweed plants can continue to grow and feed the butterflies, then the landowner needs to PERSONALLY maintain that bank so that the line of sight is not compromised and the state doesn't have to mow it as a normal part of their roadway maintenance. But the landowner seems to think that the state guy, on the tractor, with the mower/sickle that they use on the banks, sometimes at 45 degree angles, needs to be aware of the different kinds of plants that maybe should be left to grow?????
I wish we/he/I could figure out a way for him to get out, and go on the disability that the previous dr. recommended, and then he could do some of the things that he always says there just isn't enough time in the day to do. His shop is half finished, and he just doesn't have the money to do it. And with the added stress, and costs of lawyers, fighting the B#@%H on the cell tower, he just seems to have lost some of the "heart" for farming. There is not enough money in farming for him to do it and keep his income near the level he has now, and would have to pay his own insurance and that isn't happening.... So we struggle along and try to make compromises and figure out how to do some things. The cell tower money would really help to smooth things out.....but right now it will have to be up 2 years to pay back the money and time he has put out to fight her. Still not that bad.... but wasted money and loss of income.
On that subject, she did NOT file an appeal with the board of supervisors on their ruling when they voted in our favor FOR the tower, so that is in our favor. One more "strike against her" as far as showing how vehemently she objects..... Possible start date is late winter... and she does not now have an injunction against starting the project( judge threw that out in court the last trip)... but if they come in and start the road, we figure she is going to file for a temp injunction for some reason. I'd like to win the lottery, be able to fight her in court without regard to worrying over the cost, and get a non-connected real estate agent to try to see if they would list the place and at a somewhat currently reasonable appraisal, and buy the miserable "B" out and send her packing.
They say it will get into very low 80s. Sounds ok to me.
… look for a day to butcher these 5 young roos... guess I need to get working!
