onward

Friday was a better day; I’d managed to get 5-6hrs of sleep which is enough for me. Also my shortest day as far as classes are concerned.  Scooted straight home after class and cooked up lunch for my girlfriend Kayla and I.After lunch I went out in the shop to troubleshoot an electrical problem on a rolloff truck. Shop time over I went and warmed up the Can-Am Side by Side and proceeded to tour the fields behind the house to see where the coyotes were hiding out. A fun time; just Kayla and I bombing around the field snuggled up in the bright yellow Can-Am. Kayla and I finished out the evening at Dave and Maryann's with a few drinks and some homemade pizza.

Saturday morning I got up and made fresh waffles and cut up a bunch of fresh fruit while I waited for my coffee to brew. After enjoying a leisurely breakfast with Kayla I was off and running. After warming up my big Ford diesel I hooked the car trailer and was off to pick up Bad Dave. A quick stop at the Garland store so Dave could get a coffee and we were off to plow out an old friend. I dropped the plow down pulling into the driveway and made the first pass into the yard. Around the bend in the driveway and up to the field I stop just short of the kayaks I failed to put away before the snow got here. Atleast I got the kayaks flipped over before the weather came. I push the joystick for the plow to go up and I'm rewarded with just a groan from the pump. GRRR, fricken fracken muthafuckin pos electric over hydraulic bullshit plow.  I back up so I can get out and around the front of the plow without standing in too much snow. Dave spins the check plug out of the reservoir and allows that its full. Nice, I say realizing that its frozen.  I flounder around the mess of a garage and find a small salamander heater that amazingly had fuel in it. While diggin for an extension cord I'm rewarded with the only one I could find not having an end on it. I pulled the wiring that runs above the driveway to the shed down and hooked that to the space heater. About twenty minutes of being huddled around the spaceheater while it warmed the reservoir and I had a fully functional plow again. I made quick work of the plowing after I unhooked the car trailer. With the plowing done I re-hooked the trailer and backed it up to my old bronco. Dave and I winched the bronco onto the trailer with a come-along so I could haul it in for scrap. It fought the whole way on,typical I suppose. It was worth the fight; the bronco scrapped out for just over $500.

Sunday morning I scooted up to the grocery store for some fresh sausage and more coffee. Kayla cooked up some pancakes with chocolate chips as I cooked sausage and potatos. Some clementines and grapes to round out the meal and we found ourselves quite stuffed. With breakfast out of the way I warmed up the truck and we headed over to my friend Luke's to help him haul firewood from out behind his house up to where he could get it worked up. A couple trips out in the woods laughing at Clyde the dog bounding through the snow and we were done with the wood. A trip to the grocery store rounded out the day. I cooked a nice dinner of steak, potatos, broccoli and couscous. A couple hours of homework after dinner was more than enough for me. Kayla and I snuggled into my overstuffed green couch and ate Ben and Jerry's while we watched Alice in Wonderland.