[AT] Getting along with things

[David Bruce]

Cecil,
Maybe your hospital stay temporarily lessened your "luck" - I know being out and 
about was a good tonic and I'm glad to hear from you.  Take care of yourself and 
I'm sure your "luck" will return.

David

Cecil E Monson wrote:
>     Maybe not the best title for this but it will have to
> do. I haven't been on the computer much lately but hope to be
> more active in the future.
> 
>     Thought I'd relate a tractor story this morning. One of
> my wife's salespeople sold a real estate parcel last week and
> I got a message from them that the seller had a barn with an old
> tractor and some other stuff in it he wanted to sell. I asked
> what the tractor was and all they knew is it was supposed to be
> an old Farmall and the seller thought it was from back in the
> 1930s. So, I did the right thing and went to take a look at it.
> 
>     I was not surprised to find out when they unlocked the
> barn and I got in there, that it was a 1959 Farmall Cub with a
> mounted sickle bar mower, hydraulics, snowplow/grader blade and
> a dirt plow as well as spare parts and so on. I was also not at
> all surprised to see that someone had apparently dropped a tree
> across the hood or that the grille was missing. Good tires all
> the way around. No oil leaks - front or back - all original lights
> were there including the one on the rear. The hydraulics were
> hooked up and looked as though they had been working from the looks
> of the control. The battery was completely dead so I couldn't
> start it up but someone had driven it in there so it looked OK.
> 
>     There was also a Vespa scooter, Troy Bilt tiller, garden
> tractor with a mower and a bunch of tools and things. I told the
> real estate salesman to pass along word that the seller should put
> a price on the Vespa and the "old tractor" and let me know what
> he said.
> 
>     Is anyone at all surprised to hear that the owner's son
> had decided he "might be interested in the tractor"?  Oh well,
> such is life. I thought I had another "gimme".
> 
>     I can tell you that just going to look at this barn and
> what was in it was a better tonic for me than two weeks of rest
> and recuperation and I feel a lot better for it. grins
> 
> Cecil