Wildrosebeef - Armchair Cattlewoman's BYH Journal

[WildRoseBeef]

I got a little Chevy Cobalt, used, in great shape, low mileage and reasonably priced. Nice little starter car, I'm happy with it. We get to bring it home (hopefully I get to drive it, as I did when we did the test run) this morning.


Quite the hoar frost on the trees this morning too, quite pretty with all the fresh snow on the ground.

 

[redtailgal]

My first car was a 1972 Vega. It was a year older than me and UGLY.

It did however have a keyless entry and crank system. None of the locks worked, and the ignition turned and cranked without the key.

It got excellent gas mileage for such an old car, so each moring I only had to add a quart of oil.

The passenger side door wouldnt open from the outside, so I never had to worry about being carjacked.

It was great!

The car cost me 200$ and the guy threw in a large pig for free (cuz he couldnt get it out of the car)

Yes, folks. This is a true story.

 

[Queen Mum]

My first car was a 1972 Vega. It was a year older than me and UGLY.

It did however have a keyless entry and crank system. None of the locks worked, and the ignition turned and cranked without the key.

It got excellent gas mileage for such an old car, so each moring I only had to add a quart of oil.

The passenger side door wouldnt open from the outside, so I never had to worry about being carjacked.

It was great!

The car cost me 200$ and the guy threw in a large pig for free (cuz he couldnt get it out of the car)

Yes, folks. This is a true story.

 

[elevan]

 

[77Herford]

Ah, the first car. I learned so many new swears for that car. My first if you can say that I had to share with my older brother was a 82 Nissan Stanza with over 250,000 miles on it and it was a stick....I didn't know how to drive a stick. My loving father thought this would be a good way to learn how to drive. He gave me two lessons. He's not patient, it took me a week to find third gear.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Well thankfully this one's not a '70's or '80's model, it looks new but it's actually only four years old. Now I just gotta get a job to pay off the loan I owe to mommy for getting it for me! God I'm so spoiled. Anyway, it is something for me to drive to work in and other places, so now it gives me a heckuva lot more leeway than I was able to have in the past! Can you say Yeehaw!!

 

[SmallFarmGirl]

Well thankfully this one's not a '70's or '80's model, it looks new but it's actually only four years old. Now I just gotta get a job to pay off the loan I owe to mommy for getting it for me! God I'm so spoiled. Anyway, it is something for me to drive to work in and other places, so now it gives me a heckuva lot more leeway than I was able to have in the past! Can you say Yeehaw!!

Happy you got a new car!!!!

 

[Queen Mum]

My first car was a 1964 Ford Falcon, Navy Blue. I got it when I was 19 and drove it until I was 30. I loved it most of the time and hated it only twice.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

What a foggy morning this morning was! Driving into town for my interview and there were places where fog was so thick you couldn't see past the first telephone pole. Made it into town though, got through with the interview (went through okay, though not certain about the results until I get a call next week sometime), and by the time we got home the fog was just starting to lift.

I was really tired before and after the interview...big weekend this weekend with the purchase of the car and my DB over to help get rid of his crapped-out car (he sold it to a willing buyer who'll probably fix it up as a hobby) and the tandem truck that did Dad in and adds nothing more to the farm than a bunch of bad memories. The truck's supposed to go out this Friday, so hopefully it DOES go out. There's quite a drift near the truck that needs to be pushed out so the truck can be moved out and put on a trailer. Too bad we don't have a big tractor ourselves to push away snow so we have to rely on one of our friendly neighbors to do the job for us.

Anyway, that's not til Friday.

My interview went okay. Seemed to have gone better than the feedmill one, due to the informality of it and one of the guys that interviewed me was quite familiar with me and my family. Don't know if that helps any or not but yeah. They said they have a few more people to interview before any results come in, but I won't know anything until next week. Too bad that I don't have a complete agricultural degree, otherwise it would've been more certain that I would get the job. From what I got from the interview is that I have a better chance being employed as a summer or contract help for looking after the plots and the cattle herd than getting hired as a forage and livestock research agronomist. I'm not going to count my chickens before they hatch, so I can't say anything for certain.

I'm going to let it ride for this week, but still keep a look out for employment just the same.

Job hunting is such a pain!


One really good thing I got from the interview today is that the two fellas I was interviewed with told me, after mentioning about my interest in cattle and forage and pasture management, that I should really get some animals of my own. Certainly words of encouragement!


Oh, and I hate it when I get tired. Over tired for me is when I get depressed, feel like crap and find it hard to find something to smile about. Get a half-hours sleep and I feel alive again!!

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Why, why, WHY is it that cats love to climb into the highest places??? That dam Muffy, she got herself in the highest part of the old house and doesn't know how to come down. Oh she'll know to come down if there's a bloody ladder there, but I want to keep my car in there, and can't keep having that ladder up all the time as a means for her to come down.

SOOOoooo...we have to devise a means of preventing her from getting up there.


Chicken wire, anyone?