[AT] Ever have one of those days? :-(

[Larry D Goss]

It sounds as though you'd have been better off if you had stayed at home and 
become a spectator at the big fire that sucked Shelbyville's water supply 
dry.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 2:10 PM
Subject: [AT] Ever have one of those days? :-(


> Yesterday started out with Diana remembering that we had planned to go to
> the Louisville KY farm show that day. That was about 8:30 AM and the show 
> is
> a 2 hour drive. Our level of CRS is horrible... Ok, we thought about it a
> minute and decided that we could shift a couple of things and still go. I
> never like to go on Saturday because Saturday is "stupid people day". Not
> all of them but the Saturday crowd has a bunch that are much worse at
> stopping and standing in the middle of the aisles and just don't grasp 
> that
> there are other people wanting to walk along that can't get past them.
> Right off of the bat since my thermometer refuses to turn red up very far
> stuff is starting with great effort. I had noted that the volt meter on 
> the
> Astro-van was reading a little low lately and it had acted a bit weak once
> before. Trying to outsmart it I had bought a new 1,000 CCA battery the 
> night
> before but had not put it in yet. OK, I'll take 5 minutes and put it in 
> then
> we can go (famous last words). While I was smart enough to buy the battery 
> I
> was not smart enough to bring it in where it was warm and put a trickle
> charger on it. I don't know how long it sat on the shelf (or some 
> warehouse)
> but it was down a good bit. Naturally The van was about 20 miles from the
> nearest electrical outlet. Well, maybe not 20 miles but I did have to use 
> a
> 100' cord. Since I was in a hurry I also hooked the jumper cables from my
> 4x4 truck to it as well and finally added a portable booster pack to it as
> well. Of course the engine was still about 5 below zero and probably 
> flooded
> from trying to start. I dragged out another 100' cord and started warming
> the engine with two blow dryers. I focused them on an aluminum thermostat
> housing which was about the only thing on the engine I could see.   ;-) I
> finally got it to fire a little and then it started shortly before noon. 
> We
> took off figuring there was still plenty of time since I can only walk 
> about
> 3 hours straight on concrete before I'm about ready to quit anyway. The 
> trip
> went fine on dry roads and by the time we got there instead of it being 
> zero
> outside like it was when we left home  it now about 30 degrees and nice 
> down
> there in KY.
> For those that have not been to that show it is huge... I had been ill a
> couple of weeks but was feeling good and I don't know if it was related or
> not but my back began hurting quickly and I was about ready to quit by the
> time we covered the first aisle but decided to tough it out for a while.
> Things finally got better but got bad again and I gave up after only 
> seeing
> about 3/4 of one huge hall. I never had to give up on a show before.  Then
> the bad part hit. Since it was early and Scott's son Dustin who went along
> was hungry we got out of town then stopped at an exit and went to
> Dairy-Queen. Seems that their pipes had frozen and they could not serve
> ice-cream. Now that was a bad situation...   ;-)  We left and went to
> McDonalds down the road. I told Diana to get me an M&M McFlurry and I went
> to find a seat to ease my back. After what seemed like about 20 minutes
> Diana came over and told me that they were out of M&M's for the
> McFlurries... The gods must be angry... Ok, it seems that they could fix 
> an
> Oreo McFlurry... The day was saved.   ;-)
>
> The reason for this post is to mention something I did manage to see. 
> Right
> in the middle of a huge display of Cub Cadet tractors and mowers was a big
> fake stone with the front of a small tractor coming out of it. It was
> announcing the coming release (in August I believe) of the new tractor 
> that
> was labeled on the prototype hood in the mock-up as a "CUB-CADET YANMAR". 
> I
> can't ever keep up with who has bought who or made what agreements but I 
> had
> not heard of this coming... Did MTD buy Yanmar or did they just make an
> agreement?
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
> Proud owner of several cordless hatchets and a large collection of
> solid-state hammers.
>
> "Axe me no questions and I'll tell you no lies"
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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