Norris Family Blog

Hay Baler On Order

Wednesday we drove to Glasgow and I went inside the Ford Tractor Dealership. I talked to a couple of salesmen and they gave me a price for a new square hay baler. They tried to locate one while I was inside using their computer network. They found several, but were unable to obtain one of them. I said I would take Linda and Stacey to eat lunch and stop back in afterwards. We ate at an A&W fish and root beer restaurant, then stopped again at Ben & Elmer's Tractors. They still hadn't located a baler that they could get the dealer to transfer to them, so we came on home. Later the salesman called and said they had a baler and they would be getting it for me. They said the earliest they would be able to bring it to the farm would be on Monday May 19th. I said OK.
Thursday, Stacey and Linda left for Smith's Grove around 6 AM. Shortly, they were back, with Linda leading Stacey inside. Linda said Stacey was having problems and she had given her 15 mg Valium about 6:15 AM, then turned the HHR around and headed back to the house. About 7:30 AM we gave another 10 mg Valium and Stacey didn't have any other problems the rest of the day with involuntary movements. Of course, she was drowsy and slept off and on most of the day. Steve Riddle stopped in and talked with Linda and I for a while. Around 4:30 PM, a lady came to the door and talked to us about the state taking part of our property for the relocation of the highway. She was nice and told us our property would be appraised in the next couple of months and then she would be back to talk to us about a payment around August or September. The state will take our barn, boat shed and the small shed where we store the TR3 along with a stretch of land on the opposite side of the existing highway from our house.