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R Leo · #16 06-12-2011, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeTangas

...looks like Marlene has been working hard out to the farm! Paint was, uhm, a touch tired

. When I first saw the picture I said to myself that it looked like Randy's TD, but the paint, the horror LOL.

Yep, she and SWMBO's 300D are stored (serviceable) nowadays as both need significant front suspension work. When we moved out here I basically gave up my airconditioned shop with a concrete floor for a hay barn. Hard to do any resto or even heavy maintenance in there unless it's a tractor or something that must be done for the farm. I managed to get the SDL back together last summer after it tossed a headgasket in 2008 and am using it as the daily driver.

Finished a corrugated steel 33' X 24' workshop building with 10' roll up doors this April but now am working on starting our big house and will tail finishing the workshop floor and insulating the building in when those guys come out for that work on the big house. When that's done, I want to roll the TD in and do a full resto on her.

Botnst · #17 06-12-2011, 07:39 PM

Gawd it's hot out there, R Leo. I noticed that my in-laws in Louisiana are part of the same NWS band of 'severe' drought as you are experiencing.

I was sweat-drenched just greasing the finishing mower. Then there was the huge water oak limb that needed to be cut into firewood and stacked. Debris hauled. I took a 2-hour nap after the shower. In my younger days i worked outside all day. Now I find it hard just to be outside all day!

R Leo · #18 06-12-2011, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

Gawd it's hot out there, R Leo. I noticed that my in-laws in Louisiana are part of the same NWS band of 'severe' drought as you are experiencing.

<9" of rain since last JULY! We're in bad shape and some folks are flat screwed. Guy across the road hauled off all his cattle last week. I know they must have gone to the auction barn and pastures all around have been grazed so short that they look like putting greens and are showing fewer and fewer cattle on them.

I was seeing this drought shape up in March and leased the 147ac next to us. Not exactly prime grazing but at least it's something! However, we're not even getting any regrowth now so, I'm getting more and more concerned that even the extra acreage isn't going to be enough grass to get us through so I'm looking at hauling a truckload of alfalfa bales out of southern OK.

We're on the grassfed trajectory so range cubes really aren't an option and I've worked too damned hard to get this herd in condition to be selling them off at the sale barn so alfalfa it is, damned be the cost.

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Originally Posted by Botnst

In my younger days i worked outside all day. Now I find it hard just to be outside all day!

AMEN! If I have to do a full day outside in this heat, it completely wipes me out for the following day, sometimes more. Probably due in no small part to some of the meds I'm on. Pacing is the key!

With summer in mind, we did all our 'heavy lifting' last winter: fences, welding some cattle guards, fence line clearing, etc. and anything that needs to be done now, we try to get it done by 10:00 and come back and work after 5:00 if we have to. But that's a perfect world...I'm about to run 1600' of 1 1/2" pipe and that requires help and help works from 8-5.

Big hat, Bull Frog SPF50, long sleeve shirt, lots of water. Not my idea of fun but you gotta do what you gotta do!

I'd still rather do this than sit in cube with an a&&hat for a boss.

Botnst · #19 06-12-2011, 11:41 PM

To that last comment: Amen and I'm getting there. 2 years. 3 max.

Air&Road · #20 09-08-2011, 10:35 AM

Are you still near Temeculah? Where are you having to go for work? You must be going North or East.

MikeTangas · #21 09-12-2011, 12:55 AM

Boy Howdy, look who's back!

Actually, I commute 65 miles south to my station, 130 round trip daily. Currently in Albuquerque, NM for the Police Nationals. Two weeks of shooting then back to the front lines.

If I had any pictures of my 1911's I'd add them to the other thread.

Air&Road · #22 09-12-2011, 08:56 AM

Okay, I understand now. If you were going 130 miles South you'd be in Mexico. If that were the case, in your line of work, I think it would be safe to call going to work in Mexico every day living on the edge.

Take care,
Larry

whunter · #23 09-12-2011, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeTangas

Yep Hatty, still working the fence, only now I get less chance to hit the street/field with my guys. I still do though every chance I get when papwork or planning meetings don't interfere.

I'm looking from 82-83 through 95 Jim. The newer D's didn't seem to make it to CA so all I seem to be finding are 85 and older. No rush as the Honda keeps on chugging but I'm getting ready for a change. Its been 4.5 years since I came home from Michigan, bought the Honda there for $1,000 and have put about 130K on it commuting, only pennies on the mile

. Shoot, I just changed by front pads today, they had better than 100K on them compliments of my highway commute.