Yippee! I have the day off! I can't believe it, today is the first work day in about a month and a half that I am off! (Don't count Memorial Day, it was a Holiday!). After yesterday I sure need it.

Eusebio is going to finish replanting the cotton that was hailed out. It is still to wet to go to Scurry county and that is all we lack except for some spot planting where the cotton drowned. I am almost through, again. I find myself more and more frustrated and my fuse is getting shorter and shorter. There is a lot going on with planting and wheat harvest. Eddie had been the planter support, keeping fuel and seed to us, but he took his wife back to M.D. Anderson for more treatment and we got left high and dry. We lost about an hour and twenty minutes waiting for fuel. We moved to Fisher county to plant forty-nine acres left from when they were rained out and then we moved south of town for the replant. We were told to call when we moved to south of town. I did. Until my cell phone went dead! I could let it set and get thirty or forty seconds of air time before it would tilt off. I broke a piece on my tractor, it was a linkage to one of the hydraulic remote outlets. It didn't park me but it sure made it a pain to run. I got a call wanting to know what time I wanted to quit and get seed and fuel put away for the night and for Eusebio and I to be transported back to out pickups. I told them seven-thirty (figuring it would be at least eight)..... when I finally got in my truck it was after nine. An hour drive later I am in Abilene, get to the house unload my stuff, talk with Krl briefly, go run a bath, bathe, come back, check e-mail, e-mail T.J. (Tuesday was her birthday, she is FORTY, wow, forty doesn't look as good as it did on me!!!) blog, eat supper, put away my tray, go to bed and it is twelve o six. If I tell you something, I am going to do my absolute best to perform as close to what I tell you as possible. I am going to analyze what effect my decision is going to have on me and my schedule before I tell YOU what I can do or will do! I am not going to sacrifice you or your scheduling on a whim. I was so frustrated with the day that when I got out of the transport ride back to my truck I left the broken piece in it and told them to call me when the tractor is repaired and I will see if my calendar is clear. That went over like a lead balloon. I don't have a dog in this hunt. I am not doing this for the money (by week end I will have a hundred dollars going out just for gasoline). I think they will be able to do a quick repair on the tractor if they just think of it as a big green lawnmower! My brother-in-law called me late last night and wanted to check on what I was upset about. I told him I don't know how he does it! He is about three workers short of an adequate work force. He must have the patience of Job or be a glutton for punishment! It was his idea for me to take the day off! He called this morning and I was almost afraid to answer, afraid he would retract that offer! I almost did my Miguel, the yard man, impersonation but I didn't. Thankfully I still have the day off!

I think I need to have lunch with Padre Tom! I still intend to write of him! For today I hope to convince my bride to do a mid-afternoon lunch/supper/dinner at Red Lobster. I think I could do with some seafood and pasta, it might go a long way in healing my psyche!

Special blessings FATHER, on Rian and Erica on their anniversary! May they continue to grow in love and continue to be a blessing to each other. Include the little man in that blessing too! FATHER, I continue to ask for your blessing and healing on Aimee Harris. FATHER comfort her and her family. Fill them with YOUR SPIRIT, YOUR LOVE, YOUR GRACE, and surround them with YOUR presence. FATHER, send more angels!