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I think a lot of them have to be set ups - folks are too far removed from the food chain with too much time on their hands!

Brown bottle flu?

Good haul Wilbur!

Great photos and great logs!

Thanks - I really, really wanted to correct the little shaver, but that looked like so much fun, I just could not bring myself to do it!

I agree - I place no trust whatsoever that I will have any sort of retirement left when I get to that age. I am vested in a Teamsters joke of a retirement, social security, and I have a IRA. I bet they all get raided and spent by someone else before I can touch them in 20 years. I plan to work until I die. That is what my Grandparents and everyone before them did. There are worse things in life. Farmers are supposed to live poor and die rich, that way your kids and the church you leave it to get a nice gift. My sons just gave me a three disc set of Clint's movies: Fist full of dollars, A few dollars more, and The good, the bad, and the ugly. We are hunkering down about 4:00 this afternoon and starting the show.

Happy Birthday! By the way Jim, that photo Hat posted is NOT Terry Bradshaw.

I am impressed with anyone with rails laid in his yard! Now you need to go buy a Kershaw and wash the grass out of the ballast!

That damn blue car resurfaces!

Fight that attraction! Spend your time and money on a MACK!

Mike - I am not going to make it up, but "shade tree" Tommy that you met when we were by your place is coming up Saturday. I will have him look you up and buy you a lemonade! I had a guy come by yesterday from Iowa and buy some loader forks. He saw my Macks and he said: "you know, there is a guy up by me with a whole farm full of Macks" I knew right off who he was talking about!

I like the color - do you always drive it with the hood up? I am not used to these new trucks.............

We are going to see it this weekend. The blushing bride gave me a book that Dinesh D’Souza wrote on Christianity that was excellent.

Hey! Those Carolina Davids know how to read a calendar! I forgot when it was selling..........

I am not allowed any equipment in my driveway. The rule is that everything has to be behind the board fence surrounding the house yard before nightfall. If not, the blushing bride heads to a hotel with a spa until it is moved. I wonder what the superliner brought?

Lookin' shaaarp Vinnster! If your pee is as red as that truck, you have problems - just don't post a photo of that.

Man - you just got a big WOO HOO from here - that is great news! Don't push too hard at first. Let us know how it went.

Jay - I don't really know, I am just trying to punch a few more holes in the must have MACK alphabet! If Ray can't go get it, I may head down there and pick it up in person, the seller really seems like a nice guy and he has a lot of other goodies he is wanting to sell. It is about a two day trip, but I have never been to New Mexico, so I might try it this winter. We are so swamped with chopping silage and trying to keep water in front of the cattle in this drought that I had not even thought about this truck for the last month. I have not even been on BMT for a week, but I am taking the morning off so I can get caught up with my Obama jokes of the day!

Here is a link to an auction in Bird Island MN on Sept. 13th for a Superliner: http://www.henslinau...votny_(New).htm It would look good in anyone's driveway!

Smart guys wear straw hats!

Mike - I never got it unless it was one of those messages that only cool people can read? That pretty much leaves me out if cool is a requirement. I once heard that it is harder for most folks classified by society as "cool" to make it to heaven, so things may not be as bad as they seem? Back to the silage field I go.........

The blushing bride thought we had the swine flu the other day when the boys and I got up early and cooked and ate three (3) pounds of bacon. About 10:00 all that pork belly in my David belly did not feel so good......

Jim - The crops are awful here. But I am making lemonade out of the big ol' lemon this season turned out to be. We are chopping all of our corn for silage (which was the plan from the spring anyway). A lot of my neighbors don't have cattle or fences anymore so I have been going around and trying to make deals with them where I get their drought ruined corn to chop as well. That has been a great help - I am at the point where I can feed my herd all the way through next May without having to buy any feed other than mineral. There is no hay around here whatsoever. This spring I bought 200 big bales from a neighbor for $30.00 a bale and he delivered them. The same guy sold some last week for $80.00 a bale! Things may get kind of weird if we have a bad winter for a lot of folks that did not buy their hay earlier. I look for cattle prices to soar next spring if it greens up and we have grass - farmers are having to liquidate their herds and they are turning a lot of good young momma cows into hamburger right now that would have had babies next spring. There are fewer cows and calves on feed around here then I have ever seen. If we have another year like this one next year, I might have to give it up like a lot of folks are, but I still wake up thinking there is hope right around the corner!

I go out every morning at 6:00 and hop on my trusty horse tractor and I head to the field to chop silage. I get in around 9:00 and hit the sack and hopefully the new babe lets me sleep. No time for pic postin' right now!

He can say "more of a red" all he wants, but that thing is PINK!