* Moved to a new location this morning. We are back to drilling again after not doing a drill out for over a month. Something we did all during the blazing hot summer.
* Friday evening W-spouse and I went to a granite showroom in Ft Worth and picked out the granite that we want to use for the counter top.
* Saturday morning I ventured out alone to the OHV park with a light sprinkle falling on the windshield. It was very slick out there and I made a few trails without any trouble. Then I pushed the envelope slightly by entering a place that was questionable. A small downhill slope with a rutted waterhole at the bottom. It stopped me completely. After working for a few minutes I was able to move forward and get to a place to turn around. Problem was, I had to go right back through where I just got stuck. I made it about 5' and high centered. I got the tree saver out and my winch line pulley and waded through the mud tot he top of the hill and found a tree strong enough to pull on. After wading back through the mud to spool out the winch line and hook it all up, I got back in the Jeep with my winch control. I drug it nearly 100' through the mud and back up the hill. When I got back up on top, I loaded everything back up, mud covered everything, including me.
* By then it had started raining harder and the trails were getting slicker. Everywhere that I went, I was slipping and sliding. I had met some guys earlier on the trail and saw them later at the end of a trail and they flagged me down. One of them had stuck his front wheels over a ledge and couldn't get out. I pulled in behind him and winched him out. We all got out and stood in the rain chatting for a bit, and when I left, I was easing around their Jeeps and I slid off in a mud hole. I worked and worked to get it out with no luck, but did get in a position to hook up to the back of one of the other Jeeps and I then winched myself back out again.
* I tried going back the way that I had come from and with all the rain it had made the trail impassible without tearing something up, or tearing up the trail more. I knew another way out and gave it try. I made it back out to the main road and headed home. It took $11 to wash all the mud out from under the Jeep. There was mud packed into the frame and transfer case and I had to get down nearly under it to wash it all out.
* Lesson learned. Rock climbing the trails is fun. Mudding is not.
* We missed church on Sunday, so I got out in the building and caught up on a few projects that needed attending to.
* One of those projects was to get the mower going. After filling the tires with slime to try and fix a few small air leaks, I got it started and mowed the front yard. Just as I was making the last pass across the yard, the mower deck belt broke. Ughhh
* I moved the mower back to the building and removed the belt. I was going to take it with me and find one today, but I forgot it laying on the mower.
* Then I removed the rear bumper on the Jeep and drilled more holes in the rear bumper to add more bolts to it. I didn't do it when I first installed it because it was dark.
* Some people we know purchased a used Polaris Razr over the weekend. Yesterday they were playing in the mud and rolled it over. When they rolled it, the passengers hand got under something and she was at the hospital last night having to get it operated on. W-spouse was on call, and got called in for the surgery. More surgery will be required on her hand soon.
* No one has text in the group text this morning. Did something happen I'm not aware of?
* Now, for the moment you have all been waiting for. Go here to read about it. That way I don't have to retype it all. The Budweiser Shootout at Daytona was crazy wild. Even though Kyle Busch beat my favorite driver at the end, I couldn't have been more happy to see NASCAR back on the track. It made for a really good night to see the #24 car flipping over and landing upside down on the track. Anytime that Jeff Gordon doesn't finish a race, is a great race to me. Watching Kyle Busch make this save, twice was the highlight of the event. Even the win wasn't as exciting as watching him save that car twice at over 190 MPH. As big of an ass as he his, their probably isn't anyone driving today with that much raw driving ability.
* Like him or not (and I tend to not), he knows how to drive and WIN.
* Three multiple car crashes took out over half the field by the end of the race. If I am correct, there were 11 cars lined up at the end for the green/white restart.
* The two car tandem seems to have been eliminated in most situations on the track, even though you saw it at the end when Kyle pushed Tony to the front and the did the slingshot move around him for the win.
* Time to get to work, see ya Around The Corner!
3 comments:
And back again, down....SC
"Mudding" sounds like WAY too much work!!! I'm tired just reading about it!
We all broke up. You didn't hear?
LOL
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