Good Morning!!!! 68F @ 7:45AM. Plentiful sunshine. High 94F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Apparently we're enjoying a bit of a cool spell; temps will climb well past the century mark for the weekend.
I've never been much of a people or family person, Randy, but I do miss the vigor and freedom from chronic pain I enjoyed in my youth. It is what it is, though, so I try to just make the best of it and keep a positive attitude.
I think we'll all eventually get to the point where the technology in our lives will become black magic, Bird. The real troubling aspect to that is being able to find people that understand it, and also have good people skills so we can stay in the game. Unfortunately, your experience at the phone store isn't typical, at least from what I've experienced.
I think time on the front end of the tractor is split pretty evenly between the bucket, forks, and grapple, John. But when I get done with a grapple job, I leave it on there because it can do some of what I'd use forks for, with lifting straps and chains. Probably more uses I haven't discovered for it yet as well. It excels at moving brush, the main reason I purchased one, saving me hours of back breaking work. That alone was good enough reason to get one, but then I don't have a 240 pound line backer of a son to help me instead.
Spent most of yesterday morning with a shovel in my hands, and by early afternoon I'd had enough. I was able to find the main electrical feed between the pump house and garage, though, and the rest of that trench can now be dug with the backhoe. Still have a couple of feet to do by hand for another signal conduit, but it's shallow and won't take very long. I priced out what it would take to run 12VAC up to the new tank, and while it was a nice thought, I don't have several thousand dollars for wire. I do want a pair of security cameras up there, and think I can make that work with an Ethernet extender, an order of magnitude less expensive option. And since that trench is half way to the mail box, I'll install some sort of box along the way so I can branch off later.
Still no call back from the trucker, so it's time to try someone else. Business must be good. The trenches are drying out, and that means material is starting to break out of the walls and fall into the bottom. Really need to get on the ball and get the tubing and conduit ordered, and get the sand for the first lift in the trench ordered. Hopefully I can spend most of this afternoon on the phone and git'er done.
Hump Day already!
