On The Road

When I left out this week I really wanted to be home for this event. But I'm a realist and didn't figure it would happen. I sat all day wed. after I got unloaded and didn't expect to reload till thu. morning which would be to late. About 6:30 the Qualcom beeps and it is load info! The boss goes home at 4 so I was truly surpised! It was for a load of beer out of Bud going to Washington,D.C. and loaded at 3am Thur morning. Whoa here jack. If I went to bed now and ran over to pick it up I might just could make it. I had supper and ran up there thinking I would check in and go to bed, be their when it was ready. Well, it was ready! Went to check out and they told me my load was wrong(over what they estimated it to be) and take it back to the dock. Story of my life. Anything to waste our time. Two hour later we discovered the problem. The order called for 16 kegs of Ichaban beer. The loader loaded 16 pallet or 48 kegs to many! Now it's after midnight and I'm tired and drove up to Barstow and went to bed. Was up by 5 and back in Denver by 6:30 friday morning!!!

The auction started at 9 and they were prompt. Rows an rows an rows of stuff and junk. Two rows of wagons and buggys outside, much more inside. Three wagons heaped with new stuff they were selling, blankets, leads,buckets, you name it. I bought a bundle of lead ropes and a bundle of hay bags. Hundreds of harness and saddles to sell, riding and driving horses for sale. Had a super time and walked till I was so sore I could hardly move. Sue came down for a while and we had a great time togather. EVERY time she called me I lost the bid on something and the next time it came up it was twice as much so I wouldn't bid! Hey, wait just a cotton picking minute! I think that was on purpose!!!

Got home here at 2:45 and when Sue got home we went over to put away the stuff that I did get. Talked to Amy for a bit which I never get to do. She wants to take me riding in the mountians and I'm dieing to go! But she doen't really have a good saddle a the one she does is a little small so we went looking. Also, when we get Manny ready to go we'll need one for the outrider person. Found one in Bethroud, not much to look at but comfy as heck.

And that is the rest of the story. Later...

I need to back up a week and start. I made it home last friday and called Jimmy Shutt to see about getting some GOOD hay as we are running low and Campions isn't doing anything for the horses. We keep feeding more an more and they keep getting thinner an thinner. Talked to Gayla because Jimmy was out doing chores. She invited us over for lunch on sunday when we came to pick up the hay. I didn't realize it was Easter till afterwards. So went over and visited and loaded 33 bales of hay on pick up and had a wonderful lunch, took a tour of farm and tractors(arr-arr-arr) and just had the most wonderful time I can remember! I know we will be buying a whole lot more hay from them. I can't remember when I last fed hay that actually had leaf on it!

Yesterday I had my follow-up to lab work I had done a couple of weeks ago. I knew I was in for an ass chewing of huge magnatude so bit the bullet an got it over with. Turns out it was that bad. Blood sugar is high(282), I knew that. Blood pressure was high(170-90). Kidneys are ok, and get this...cholestrol is 124, and LDL(bad chol.) is only 66! And I don't have Prostate cancer! So we are back to square one on sugar an pressure now that I have insurance again.

High lite of last week-end...I got to ride Cricket around for awhile. Didn't have any problems at all.

Picked up 2667# of shingles for Thorban yesterday in Denver. Didn't even harder lower the pick-up. Got 18mpg coming home!

Need to run fix a bite. We are off to Cheyenne to look thing over for Pathfinder fair up their next month. Later....