[AT] OK, I'm back. Sort of...

[Gunnells, Bradley R]

It's good to hear from you again. I always enjoy listening to your list of projects. Makes me feel better that mine isn't as long even though it seems they make little progress towards actually getting done.  :-)  (that's my projects I'm referring too)

Glad to hear you're making improvements in the health area. Just keep doing what you can when you can.

Brad

On May 27, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:

> Just rambling...
> I've been a little absent for a while. I have been reading a few
> messages but not keeping up. I have had better decades... The last 5
> years especially. I can't complain too much, well, I could but nobody
> cares :-)
> We have been sorting out some health issues, family issues, income
> issues etc. I got down to where I could only walk about 100' at a time
> using 2 canes. Sort of a pain for someone that was always active. The
> main reason I can't complain much now is that it was all curable
> (except just getting old). I can now walk a mile or more without
> problems. I can eat anything I want as long as it is low calorie, low
> fat, low carb, low sodium, low sugar and low flavor. :-)
> I've dropped just over 50 pounds. On a good day I work outside maybe
> an hour in the morning and 2 or 3 hours in an evening. Some days are
> better than others. Isn't getting old a hoot? :-)
> After years of depression I found that the cure for that is hugging
> horses... And talking to horses. And looking out the window at horses.
> And having people around here riding and training horses and tending
> their horses on small pastures they rent from us.
> My big problem that is left is catching back up on all of the stuff
> that has been sitting. I have made about zero progress on old tractor
> stuff but I do have a nice project line waiting. It is going to take a
> week to clear out a decent hole in the shop to work in. It has
> accumulated a horrendous amount of "stuff" carried in by those dang
> pack-elves. At one point I moved the woodshop out of the farm shop and
> into a building of its own (building was put up in the 70's as a store
> building then was our family room for a while) So now I have a big
> mess in two shops... :-) I have not gotten anything done in the farm
> shop this winter largely because you could not get it warm if you sat
> it on fire. Of course the hole left from moving the woodshop out
> filled in with a big sucking sound almost over night.
> We are really getting tired of rain... I hope it quits in time for the
> drought. I was mowing grass yesterday that was higher that the hood on
> the JD Lawn tractor. It takes about 3 passes to get it down. We keep
> two 20+ HP lawn tractors and we were going to replace one last fall
> but the drought changed that schedule. We didn't put enough hours on
> them during last years drought to need to replace one.
> I am planning to make Portland this year... I also want to make Big
> Dog's Cub Tug this year. I am going to try staying active here and I
> guess I will post both to the list and the forum for a while until
> that sorts out.
> I didn't use to like forums when I was on dial-up because of slow
> loading pages but I don't have a problem on broadband. It is nice to
> see a lot of pictures right with the messages. The forum does not look
> to be very busy especially in the tractor section. The last post I see
> there was in April? I'll have to start posting there, I may not have
> gotten much done but I can talk about what I want to do. :-)
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Be tolerant of almost everything but intolerance...
> 
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
> https://sites.google.com/site/robinsonsprucecreekfarms/
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