shoulda just stayed in bed this morning.....

The Murphy's had a family reunion at my place today...
Plan yesterday evening was to get up, do the chores, mow/ted most of the hay, do some more haftado stuff and come to work..
Got up, no hot water, heating oil was empty. Grab 5 gallon of diesel from my tractor stash, jerryrig it and get the heater going.
Chore loop, 2 horses meet me in the road and run around like idiots... Move a tree limb I have been after a guy about for a month, fix the fence, put them back.
Finish the loop, and decide to make a detour thru the woods and stop at my favorite spot to look over the countryside and regroup a few minutes.... Get to about the farthest point from town and car just stops.. No warning, just cuts off and won't start. Walk 2 miles back to town, neighbor kid's dad comes and tows me to the shop...
Back home, hook up mower and start. Several smaller places. One down, start the next that I hadn't mowed before. Got too close to a creek (ditch) bank because the grass hid it some and almost turned over. Saved the rollover by turning in to the ditch. Loader wedged on the opposite side and kept from doing any damage but I was stuck. Walk a half mile or so to the kid's dad and he comes with the tractor and pulls me out.
Continue mowing and finish up a mile from home, halfway back have a flat on a frt tire, get it in the woods out of sight and leave it/beat feet to the house and the quad to finish up chores before dinner and night shift... Nothing got tedded, other hafta do stuff got reprioritized, and I get to skip sleeping in the morning to get the tire fixed, ted, and catch up before night shift tomorrow... And hope the car doesn't cost a fortune...

Someone remind me that hobbies are sposedtabe fun..... :roll:

Done now...

Dave, horses ain't a hobby......more like a life style......only good thing I can think of with a horse is that if ya get mad at it you can always shoot it and eat it.


Rick

Teasing Alert! All those horses and you don"t have a set of harness to get them to pull you home when engines die? Or hitch to a sickle mower for mowing ditchs? You"re not using the available horse power- or horse sense- for the haying work, fence checking, get around needs. The horses have you as servant, they"re supposed to help you. RN

(quoted from post at 12:58:46 06/26/12) Teasing Alert! All those horses and you don"t have a set of harness to get them to pull you home when engines die? Or hitch to a sickle mower for mowing ditchs? You"re not using the available horse power- or horse sense- for the haying work, fence checking, get around needs. The horses have you as servant, they"re supposed to help you. RN

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tell me about it...... We just woke up and made it a date to ride a couple hours or so at least twice a month... I keep saying I'm gonna teach the wife's gelding and one of the mares to pull/work in a harness... Just not real sure where to start.....

Reminds me of the saying:
"Some days it just isn't worth chewing through the restraints".

Major bummer! I'd be more bugged than a polecat with its tail caught in a door. But I do think the pain in the neck days, make one really appreciate the hassle free days. At least you woke up today... now that's bonus! Tomorrow's another day.

My kid sister was constantly whining she wanted a horse one summer.
She finally p!ssed Dad off enough that he said "look young lady there's no way in h^%$ am I'm going to burn good milker hay and grain thru any d*^@ horse! Got it?" Suited me fine, one less animal I had to clean up behind!
Dad farmed with horses until WW 2

Murphy's Law? Murphy was an optimist.

Walking was an unexpected bonus,

Green tractors helps a person have a Better
Day.... With or without Horse"s....

There ya are dave...........a rattle can of green paint & your troubles will stop. simple, eh? :roll: