Never goes like you planned, but we got through it...
64 overnight, but still muggy. At least not so bad... 88 top temp so hot enough... Humidity was rough all day.
Samples packed and was getting on "good jeans/clothes"... phone rings...DS.... bring something to pull this yellow truck off the road and a chain.... Okay, give me a few minutes, .....don't take too long.... Okay....quick finished dressing... got a short tow chain I keep in the one car, took the ranger and headed towards barn where he said he was... Transmission locked up.... right in the middle of the road... Had to go to the barn and get the red/white bale truck.... he said ranger would never pull it... so, got that truck, had a chain on it, plus he had mine.... hooked it up and pulled him the mile down the hill and around and into the farm driveway down near the barn and he parked it... said he was ready to go, so he came back to the house with me... I changed shoes, got my wallet/purse, put the already packed samples in the explorer and we left...
He told me he had an appt to get some touch up work on this truck, and had someone interested in it...
No OFFENSE to anyone.... but it is a Chevy, and we are chevy JINXES.... it was something that he wound up getting in a trade... several years ago Jim that used to be here to work and lived at DS's.... had gotten it in to do some work on his spare time... never got finished, Jim left... and DS said it was time to fix it and then get rid of it.... so he had started down the road... it seemed to get "tight" , decided to turn around and go back to the barn, and it locked up.....
So, we left a few minutes later... I had planned to go by and check the heifers for calves, and fill up the explorer... but that didn't get done. Gas is cheaper here, and I had enough to go 150 miles... so plenty to go down... We stopped at the gas station, here, and their pumps were all down... so we just figured to go on... DS was pretty P.O.ed at the truck situation... it's been in the way and he just said it was time to go... plus we do not often even drive chevy's since it just seems we/they are jinxed... My grandfather would not let me drive his new truck when I was a kid in Conn.... because every chevy I drove BROKE DOWN..... Honestly, it was a family joke from the time I was a kid....
Guess he will make a decision about it ... but said he does not even want to work on it or deal with it... maybe he can sell it as is to the guy who was interested in it... or for parts... It's a 3/4 ton or 1 ton, 4x4... so has alot of pluses for someone wanting an older one for parts and such...
So dropped the samples off at UPS, and headed down... Traffic was NOT good... got caught up in several "slow downs"... between road work and kids are all moving into Va Tech this week... so LOTS of traffic....
But, we got there... went to Rural King first.... picked up some stuff... I got sweet feed and some turkey feed... an 8 gal waterer since they are going through water so fast... DS got a couple bags of chicken feed and a hydraulic hose for the discbine... 10-12-14 ft were all the same price... so he got a 14... said he can get a shorter one at TSC; to get the right length to fit the discbine... and this way it will be in 2 pieces so will be easier to put on.. and if one piece should blow another time... won't be so costly... you never know... he said to replace the one on it, in one piece would be over $150 .... this 14 ft piece was only $50..... a 2nd one, even with a fitting to attach together will not cost another $50....
Loaded everything in the explorer and headed for the drs. office. He had to get some copies of his last 2 visits for the lawyer....and the office mgr there said dr was running a little behind... said he would be back at the appt time.... got them went to the lawyer's .... 10 min away... talked to the lawyer's office mgr/clerk etc... lawyer was not there... but the girl there knows all the stuff, and saw what needed to be copied etc... and we went back to the dr office... Got there right at time, he checked in, and I came up a few minutes later after using the rest room... and we went back, and then waited 40 minutes before he came in.... He likes this dr alot... and he did some ultrasound on his neck/back... looked at the way the soft tissue is reacting to his movements... and the damage he sees... I also saw the differences in how his muscles, ligs, etc moved from some of the C-4-5-6-7 vertebrae to the next ones down...T-1 and T-2 especially... cementing that there is more damage than just an x-ray shows... helping the case AGAINST going back to work... in the meantime DS got a certified letter from "another independent osteopathic specialist" for another assessment... because they think that he is trying to get out of the "work placements".... and not taking into account the mental stress and anxiety... He did get the letter from the psych dr from a couple weeks ago... saying they would not release him to go back to any kind of work... and he is having reactions from some of the meds... that dr wanted him to try something different... so he has to call them tomorrow...
It just goes round and round... and it is wearing on him mentally... he gets all uptight again so this dr feels that these new meds are not helping but hurting... and the anxiety is also making the physical worse with the tension and stress...
So, we finally left there, came up the road... stopped and got some gas to get us home without a problem... I will fill at home here... and stopped to eat since we didn't eat...
In the meantime, GF just got her truck back from the body shop... someone hit her a couple weeks ago... and now the truck is cutting off...she had gone to pick up sister's kids from school...they go to a private Christian school..... he told her to try the ignition module....switch it with the AC module as they are the same one....but there was nothing he could do with us an hour away.... he would look at it later... guess she got the truck to start again, dropped off the kids at her mother's, then finally got to the farm... she was coming up to shoot some deer... she is a good shot..... to use some of the damage permits... good target practice too...after the usual Wed night dinner at her parents house...
It was calling on some rain this afternoon... It got black and rained at DR office... saw rain several places on the way home... Got here... and NOTHING.... roads were wet up to about 5-8 miles from the farm... and looking at radar, it split and went around again...
