Helping A Neighbor and Cumberland Girls Basketball

After lunch in town, Linda went to work at the after school day care and Stacey and I were at home. Our neighbor, Steve called and was heading up on Jone's Ridge to his farm. He had trouble getting his tractor started the night before, so I told him Stacey and I would ride up there and see if he needed help. We drove the pickup truck and when we arrived, Steve couldn't start the tractor. I checked the battery charger and it wasn't charging the battery. We wiggled the battery terminal and it began charging but the tractor still wouldn't start. We used his Mule and our snatch strap to pull the tractor out of the pole barn. Steve pulled his truck up to the side of the tractor and I hooked up the jumper cables then he tried again to start the tractor. No luck with the jumper cables either. After some more examination in the brighter light of outside, we determined the cable connection to the battery terminal was bad. At that point we decided to pull start the tractor. I hooked the snatch strap to the back of his truck and then pulled Steve on the tractor to start it. When it started we unhooked the strap and he used the tractor to move a roll of hay for his cows to eat. Then he parked the tractor back inside the pole barn. We talked a little while about a shed he is wanting to build, then Stacey and I headed back home. After showering and Linda coming home, we all left for a trip to Russell Springs to watch the Cumberland County Girls Basketball team play. They won the game with Clinton County fairly easily. One thing that interested me was that Christen Rowe played. She had broke her finger during a ball game several weeks ago and her injury required pins to keep the bones in place. The pins were still in and it was on her right hand which is her shooting hand. She is such a good player, it was tough watching her play basically one handed and I bet a lot tougher on her doing it. Jason and his family were there, so Stacey was able to visit with him while the game was going on. I was glad to see Tommy feeling better after spending a day or two in the hospital taking IV fluids.