I have been sleeping like a rock! I don't think I move. If the night shift has a problem they had better bring a crane if they need me up, I don't know if I would hear them should they attempt to wake me.

Production continues to gradually climb. Before long we should be back at pre-rain production levels. It has been very difficult to forecast what the truck needs are each evening. I have had only one truck doing repeated cotton bale loads during the night but we have been on the verge of needing more help. I think we crossed the line last night. It is very difficult to say for sure. Everyday this week we have had either truck or personnel problems or a combination of both. Last night I had a very dependable driver come in from a mote load to Lubbock. It was nine forty-one when he scaled in. He unhooked the mote trailer and told Delfino he was going to take a short nap. Six o'clock this morning he woke up. Cotton bales sitting on the ground, all the trailers full. What is wrong with this picture! While I have been bringing in three bale trucks during the day I don't think three can pull the rabbit from this hat today. I have ordered one additional hopefully by noon.

Moving to the north end of the complex, seed trucks are better but not by much. We remain at down levels truck wise but one truck has not showed up in over twelve hours pointed toward twenty-four. I had a report this one truck was totally out of route headed south to points unknown. This truck has dropped out of the rotation three times in thirty-six hours. I'm not sure what is going on with this trucker but I have a very uneasy feeling. Finally, he has called telling me that he has run out of fuel, thirty miles from the plant. This driver has made close to one hundred loads from St. Lawrence to Lubbock and he still doesn't know how much fuel it takes? Hello. The sad part is that this driver is making it difficult for all the other drivers.

Krl and the hounds are scheduled to return sometime tomorrow. I am looking forward to their return and I have been trying to get a good start on weekend driver and truck settlements. Krl is bringing dressy clothes for us to wear to Rian's graduation Saturday. She is picking up supplies today in Abilene.

We received an interesting letter yesterday. It was from the Texas Cotton Ginners Association. In the letter it explained that the General counsel for the Texas Department of Public Safety had determined that cotton bales and cotton seed are not agriculture products and that the 1547 permits (which everyone has purchased at a cost of $206.00 per vehicle) are not good for bales or seed. Go figure. This is reminiscent of a few years ago when they determined that module builders, boll buggies and grain carts must have brakes to be towed on the highway. I am trying to get hold of Pete Laney's office in hopes he can get the attorney general to make a pro-agriculture ruling. Sounds as though DPS has been wearing their hat to tight....... again!

I immediately think back to a hearing a few years ago that I attended at the Austin headquarters of the DPS. I have never seen so much security. Signs everywhere saying no weapons of any kind allowed past the metal detectors. Once I had passed security I was quick to notice I was the only one without a gun!

FATHER, bless this day. I ask that YOU take control of it and of me. I pray for hag, Lillie, Rene', Carol, Michelle, Aimee, and for Rusty and Kim's unborn baby. I ask that YOU bless them with YOUR healing. I pray for R2D2 and all the needs of our spiritual family. I ask for safe travel for Ms. Judy as she begins her trek to Tennessee. Fill the earth!