Rocks And A Fountain

Linda started our day with sausage and egg breakfast. Then Kim and Linda planted flowers in two old bed pans and in the half whiskey barrel at the corner of our house. Kim and Kenny were wanting to take rocks back to IN to use as stepping stones, so I took a short 4-wheeler ride to locate a few. I returned to the house and asked Brent to get his boots on and help me pick them out of the creek with the tractor's scoop. Kenny and Stacey rode on 4-wheelers and Linda and Kim pulled the trailer behind the Mule. We took a short ride down to the creek and Brent lined up the scoop with the rock and I picked up the rock with the tractor and drove up on the bank and unloaded it on the trailer. I drove back down in the creek and picked up another rock with Brent's help getting it lined up. We all then drove up to the garage door of the house and checked out what we had. Whew, the rock in the scoop was too big to put in the back of their Suburban, so I stacked it over behind the barn for use latter. The girls washed off the smaller rock, which probably weighed in around 300 pounds before we loaded it.

Three people stopped down where I had the S-10 setting with FOR SALE signs. I went down and talked to them and the guy ended up saying he would buy the truck. I called the county office and they were closing too soon for us to get there, so we will complete the deal Monday. We had lunch of ham and cheese on a salad and then Linda started us making a fountain for Kim.

Brent and I drilled holes in an old piece of barn siding and screwed a galvanized bucket to the board. We added a water spigot and plastic hose running down in the bucket to a small electric pump. Once we had all that working, Linda burnt their names and the date of their wedding into the wood. Next it was time for my project, I brought the oldest tractor to the garage and we wired it with a toggle switch and new wire running to two new headlights. We finished that in about a half hour and I tried them out. The new lights worked great. I wanted to run the tractor and use the lights for a few minutes to make sure they continued to work so I made a lap around the hay field, bush hogging a 4-wheeler path as I went. All continued to work so I parked the tractor in the hay shed and we were done for the day. We went inside and had a late snack, then some watched a movie upstairs.